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Non-bailable warrants issued against Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi

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An uncommon CBI court here on Sunday issued non-bailable warrants (NBWs)against diamantaire Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi regarding Rs 13,500 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) extortion. The court's turn comes following Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) ask for as both the jewel dealers, who left the nation in January, declined to join the examination in cases identified with the trick. In the interim, the CBI kept scrutinizing the officers of abroad branches of Indian banks that expanded claimed credit offices based on Letters of Undertaking (LoUs) issued by the PNB to firms identified with Modi and Choksi- - the promoter of Gitanjali Group. The CBI said "the officer who managed forex exchanges in Allahabad Bank's Hong Kong Branch, has been summoned from Hong Kong and is being addressed".Modi, a general on the arrangements of rich and well known Indians since 2013, alongside his gathering organizations - Diamond R US, Stellar Diamond and Sola...

Mumbai to Pune in 25 mins: Virgin, Maharashtra ink pact to build hyperloop

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The Virgin Group on Sunday marked a "goal assention" with Maharashtra to manufacture ahyperloop transportation framework amongst Mumbai and Pune, which plans to decrease the movement time between the two super urban communities to 20 minutes from the three hours at introduce. The main hyperloop course will connect focal Pune with the megapolis and in addition the Navi Mumbaiinternational air terminal, the establishment stone for which was laid by Prime Minister Narenda Modithis evening."We have consented to an arrangement with Maharashtra to construct a Virgin Hyperloop amongst Mumbai and Pune, starting with an operational exhibit track in the locale," Virgin Groupchairman Richard Branson said on the primary day of Magnetic Maharashtra financial specialist summit here this evening.With less demanding access to airplane terminal entryways, the circle will have the capacity to ship 150 million travelers each year."The proposed hyperlook transportation ...

Eyes wide shut: The $1.8 billion PNB fraud that went completely unnoticed

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The Punjab National Bank office in south Mumbai sits directly not far off from both the Bombay Stock Exchange and the Reserve Bank of India, at a physical focus of one of the world's quickest developing real economies. The branch, clad in a stately provincial structure, is currently likewise at the core of an extortion case connected to very rich person gem specialist Nirav Modi that has shaken trust in a state managing an account division that records for approximately 70 for every penny of India's keeping money resources. It was here, as indicated by accounts from Punjab National Bank administrators and government agents, that a solitary moderately aged chief, later supported by his young subordinate, designed false exchanges totalling about $1.8 billion from 2011 to 2017.The bank says it is as yet researching how they could do as such and go undetected for so long. The records given by present and previous officials who addressed Reuters propose an an...

Decks cleared: Essar, Rosneft complete $12.9-billion deal

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Decks have been cleared for the biggest foreign acquisition ever in India. The completion of the $12.9-billion Essar Oil buyout by Russian government-owned Rosneft and other partners is expected to be announced on Monday. The deal, signed in October 2016, went through a lot of hiccups, with the lenders to the Ruia-controlled Essar group insisting on certain conditions. Among the last to approve the deal was Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India. The Mumbai-based Essargroup owed over Rs 2,300 crore to LIC, part of which has been repaid. Around Rs 1,200 crore is said to be pending. The Essar group had in October 2016, signed a deal with Rosneft, United Capital Partners and Trafigura group to sell 98 per cent equity in Essar Oil. The proceeds from the sale were expected to help the group reduce its debt, which stood at around $13.5 billion at the time of signing the deal. Essar Steel, another group company, is undergoing insolvency proceedings after the Ahmedabad be...