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PM Modi says opposition's "chowkidar chor hai" slogan harmful for country

Nirav Modi owned 173 paintings worth nearly Rs 58 crores and 11 vehicles including a Rolls Royce, Porche and Mercedes, the Enforcement Directorate said in a statement after the jeweller's arrest in London on Wednesday, a year after allegations of loan fraud surfaced against him. The paintings and vehicles have been seized and will be sold to raise tax dues, the Enforcement Directorate said.

The CPI-M today named 20 more candidates for the Lok Sabha elections.

The Maharashtra chief electoral office has received as many as 400 complaints of violation of the model code of conduct through its app cVIGIL, an official said today.

Fugitive billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi, the main accused the Rs 13,000 crore Punjab National Bank or PNB scam, was arrested in London on Tuesday and is being produced before a court today where he will be formally charged and is expected to seek bail. The arrest comes a week after London Westminster Court issued an arrest warrant against him in response to a request by the Enforcement Directorate for his extradition in a money laundering case. The case will follow a similar procedure as that of liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who also fled India two years ago just as banks were trying to recover unpaid loans from him.

For the lokpal or the anti-corruption ombudsman post, PC Ghose's name was finalised and recommended by the Selection Committee led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week.

Fugitive billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi's arrest in London has not impressed the opposition back home in India. In their first response to the move, opposition leaders said the arrest was mere symbolism ahead of Lok Sabha elections and that the government deserved no credit for the arrest.

The Income Tax department has attached assets worth Rs 225 crore of Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati's former secretary Net Ram and his associates as part of an alleged tax evasion probe against them, officials said today.

Shatrughan Sinha, the BJP's in-house critic, may contest next month's national election from his Bihar seat, but as a candidate of the rival Congress party.

In a sharp attack at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issue of jobs, the Congress on Wednesday alleged that the country's "chowkidar" is responsible for "stealing" jobs with 4.7 crore youth losing employment.

India on Wednesday expressed concern over widening trade deficit with China which has ballooned to over USD 58 billion, with the country's new envoy in Beijing saying that addressing the issue would be his top priority.

In a sharp attack on the political drama that played out between between the BJP and its allies in Goa after Manohar Parrikar's death, the Shiv Sena on Wednesday dubbed it as a "terrible state of democracy", saying they did not even wait for the chief minister's ashes to cool down.

Fugitive jeweler Nirav Modi, prime accused In the Rs 13,000-crore PNB fraud case, has been arrested in London. On two different occasions, Nirav Modi was by the media in London after the UK put out an arrest warrant for him.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of destroying 1 crore jobs in 2018 alone despite promising to create 2 crore jobs annually.

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