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Chinese Loan Apps Exploited Covid Crisis, Weak Regulatory Framework to Cheat Millions of Indians, Says ED

The ED investigation has found that these apps were charging up to 2,300 per cent interest on loans. The apps specifically targeted vulnerable strata of society. On non-repayment, they would start threatening women of sexual harassment/portraying them as call girls on adult websites from Top India News- News18.com https://ift.tt/2sCcBV0

Agnipath Scheme in National Interest, Court Won't Interfere with Policy Decisions: Delhi HC

Besides the pleas challenging the Agnipath scheme, the court also rejected a bunch of petitions relating to the recruitment process in the armed forces under certain previous advertisements while clarifying that such candidates do not have a right to seek recruitment. from Top India News- News18.com https://ift.tt/4NXM9o6

DRI Squeezes Out Gold Worth Rs 51 Cr Being Smuggled in Paste And Other Forms by Sudanese Syndicate

In the operation codenamed Golden Dawn, DRI seized a total of approximately 101.7 kg of gold, valued at Rs 51 crore, along with Rs 74 lakh-worth foreign currency and Rs 63 lakh of Indian currency, and has arrested 7 Sudanese and 3 Indian nationals so far from Top India News- News18.com https://ift.tt/KjLiJDN

Bombay HC Issues Notice to Home Ministry in Plea Seeking Passport for 1-year-old Girl with Afghan Parents

The plea filed by Bharatiya Samaj Seva Kendra (BSSK) Pune through its executive director stated that the child, named Atlas, was born to an Afghan couple on September 8, 2021, and was surrendered to BSSK the next day. The organisation said that since the child was born in India, she was entitled to an Indian passport from Top India News- News18.com https://ift.tt/FVKu9Bc

Army Issues Notifications on Modification in Recruitment Procedure for Agniveers, Others

Online registrations for applications are now open from February 16 to March 15 where candidates can apply according to their age, educational qualification, physical criteria and other qualification requirements, the defence ministry said in a statement. from Top India News- News18.com https://ift.tt/FWVaZix

'Not Given Reasonable Opportunity': In Spat of Bihar Babus, IG Sends Letter to Home Dept against DG

CM Nitish Kumar had advised IG Vikas Vaibhav to speak on an appropriate forum instead of tweeting, saying he should have complained about the matter to senior officials. In the letter written to Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) Home, which has been accessed by News18, Vaibhav has mentioned that several times since December, he had made complaints against DG Shobha Ohatker but there was no action from Top India News- News18.com https://ift.tt/Uqyf3b9

NDRF's Rescue Act in Turkey: Disaster Response Force Pulls Out Second Child Alive from Earthquake Rubble

An eight-year-old girl was pulled out by the NDRF team on Friday. Three NDRF urban search and rescue teams have been mobilised to Turkey after the massive earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck the southern parts of the country close to the Syrian border on Monday, February 6 from Top India News- News18.com https://ift.tt/UOvFMVg

Jaishankar, Fiji's Deputy PM Discuss Development Partnership

Prasad, Fiji's minister for finance, strategic planning, national development and statistics, who is paying a visit to India from February 5 to 10, held talks with Jaishankar during which the two ministers reiterated the close connection that exists between the peoples of the two countries from Top India News- News18.com https://ift.tt/mKjkYB9

Bombay HC Directs Police Not to Conduct Mock Drills Depicting Muslims as Terrorists till February 10

This was in response to a PIL stating that such drills are against the right to dignity under Article 21 and are discriminatory against the community, which is prohibited under Article 14 of the Constitution. The matter will be heard next on February 10 from Top India News- News18.com https://ift.tt/sDQ12N4

'A Friend in Need Is A Friend Indeed': Quake-hit Turkey's Envoy Expresses Gratitude towards India

The call to send assistance to Turkey was taken at the highest level. As the world grappled with the huge scale of loss and destruction, on the instructions of Prime Minister Modi, principal secretary PK Mishra held a meeting on Monday to discuss immediate relief measures. The government decided to immediately send search and rescue teams of NDRF and medical teams along with relief material from Top India News- News18.com https://ift.tt/6uVYko4

SC Issues Notice in NCPCR's Plea against Punjab & Haryana HC Order That A Muslim Girl Can Enter into A Valid Marriage on Attaining Puberty

In the impugned order of the High Court, it was observed that merely because the petitioners had gotten married against the wishes of their family members, they could not possibly be deprived of the fundamental rights as envisaged in the Constitution of India from Top India News- News18.com https://ift.tt/YVxw8QX