Mehul Choksi Captured In Dominica, Other Top Stories

Fugitive diamond merchant Mehul Choksi - one of India's most wanted in connection with the Punjab National Bank loan fraud case - has been captured from Dominica while trying to flee to Cuba, sources have said. The 62-year-old had gone missing earlier this week from the Caribbean island nation of Antigua and Barbuda, where he fled in 2018. His disappearance came amid efforts to extradite him by the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate, which are investigating the Rs. 14,000 crore fraud at India's second largest state owned bank. The Union Home Ministry is likely to announce new guidelines for Covid, as the present one ends on May 31. Towards the end of every month, the ministry issues fresh nationwide Covid directives or extends the existing ones till the end of the next month. In continuation with this, the government will most likely issue directives for June today.