New Delhi [India], January 18 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday took a veiled dig at previous Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) regime, saying that the previous government had no modern approach and policy for metro.
While Vadra came into limelight after marrying into the Nehru-Gandhi family in 1997, he has consistently been in the news for cases of alleged land grabbing and dubious business dealings. He is said to have dropped out of college midway to join his family business of brassware and artificial jewellery. In 1997, Vadra started Artex, which dealt with brass handicraft and fashion accessories. Later, he also ventured into hospitality and real estate. The year 2007 turned out to be extremely lucrative for Robert Vadra. Within a year, he founded a number of firms, including Sky Light Realty, North India IT Parks, Sky Light Hospitality, Real Earth Estates, and aircraft charter firm Blue Breeze Trading.
In January 2008, the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU-IND) of the finance ministry had flagged a foreign direct investment (FDI) of over Rs 305 crore by three Mauritius-based companies in INX Media Pvt Ltd, then owned by Peter and Indrani Mukerjea. The Income Tax department handed over the case to the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which in 2010 registered a case against INX Media for alleged Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) violations. Around six years later, while investigating a company associated with Karti Chidambaram, ED found documents linked to INX Media. The documents indicated payments were made to Karti’s said company by INX Media at the time the finance ministry granted it FIPB approval. After this, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered an FIR on May 15, 2017, alleging irregularities in the FIPB clearance, and ED lodged a money laundering case in 2018.
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Ex-Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar calls the move a “big relief” to farmers
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Farmers are seen during their ongoing agitatin over the new farm laws, at Singhu border in New Delhi, on January 12, 2021.
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Ex-Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar calls the move a “big relief” to farmers
While several Opposition leaders on Tuesday questioned the composition of the Supreme Court-appointed expert committee to examine the farm laws and backed the farmers’ demand for a repeal, former Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar welcomed the court’s decision and called it a “big relief”.
The Congress, however, pointed out that all the four members named by the court had publicly supported the laws enacted by the Narendra Modi government and cannot be expected to be “neutral arbiter”.
ISSUE DATE: January 18, 2021
UPDATED: January 11, 2021 11:58 IST
In 2021, Modi must demonstrate that he has put the Indian economy firmly on the path to recovery and narrow the inequalities caused by the pandemic.
In a marriage, they call it the seven-year-itch when the romance sours and partners start looking for better prospects. You could say the same about Indian politics, and the relationship of prime ministers with their electorate after seven years. Indira Gandhi seemed invincible in 1971 after the Bangladesh War but, by the seventh year of her tenure, the oil shocks of 1973 and student agitations that year gave birth to the JP movement, which ultimately led to her defeat in 1977. The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance seemed certain of re-election in 2004 in Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s seventh year at the helm, but they underestimated the strength of the Opposition coalition and paid the price. After a convincing re-election in 2009, Manmohan Singh and the Congress-led Unit