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Thieves have been able to loot Rs. 4.37 Crore cash and ornaments worth Rs 1.65 crore on Sunday from a branch of the Belagavi District Credit Cooperative Bank (BDCC) Murgod branch. As per the police, there are no signs of breaking into the bank, which means they used a duplicate key to make entry into the bank.The thieves also took the CCTV DVR along with them. The Murgod police have registered a complaint and are investigating the matter. Police claim that the dacoity happened around 4 AM on Sunday. Normally a watchman is on duty 24 x 7 but on Sunday the said watchman did not turn up for duty.
Hubballi-Ankola railway project to commence this year
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said the work on the ‘much sought after’ Hubballi-Ankola railway project will commence this year. Speaking after inaugurating the Regional Forensic Science Lab (RFSL) in Hubballi on Sunday, environment clearances for the project will be taken within this year. “Karnataka is planning to develop several ports in the coastal areas and for that, we need 
good connectivity. The Hubballi-Ankola is an important project and we are sure of all the clearance for it and start the work this year,” he said.Environmentalists have opposed the contentious Hubballi-Ankola railway project citing large scale destruction of green cover in the ecologically sensitive Western Ghats. Currently, the issue is being heard by Supreme Court. The chief minister also said that along with Hubballi-Ankola line, the State cabinet has also approved the Dharwad-Belagavi railway project via Kittur. He said budget approval for the project has also been given. Bommai said he presented a ‘‘no freebies’ budget and one that gives importance to the generation of revenue.
Chitra Ramakrishna, Ex-NSE Chief, Arrested by CBI in ‘Himalayan Yogi’ Scandal
By India.com News Desk-New Delhi
Chitra Ramkrishna, former chief executive of the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE), was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) late on Sunday night in connection with the so-called colocation case. Chitra is accused of grave irregularities at the stock market including sharing privileged information with an outsider she dubbed a “Himalayan yogi”, according to media reports. The arrest came just a day after a Delhi Court dismissed her request for pre-arrest bail plea and pulled up the CBI for inaction and being “lackadaisical” in the probe against her in the last four years. The court termed the scam as a “dark period” in the bourse’s history. “Being in pole position in the NSE earlier, there are strong 
chances that she may influence and tamper with the evidence, as she was Joint MD as well as MD & CEO of the NSE, the role of which is under investigation under the present co-location scam,” the court said. Last month, the mysterious “Himalayan yogi” who allegedly influenced Ramkrishna’s decisions was outed as Anand Subramanian, also a former officer at the stock exchange arrested in a market manipulation case. Anand Subramanian, the former Chief Operating Officer of the NSE, was the “yogi” who communicated with Chitra Ramkrishna through email, the CBI sources said. The CBI has already arrested Subramanian and he is currently in police remand.
Final Phase of Polling Today Final Phase of Polling Today
Polling will start at 7 am and continue till 6 pm in Azamgarh, Mau, Jaunpur, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Varanasi, Mirzapur, Bhadohi and Sonbhadra districts.
Voting for the seventh and final phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election covering 54 seats is set to be held on Monday to decide the fate of 613 candidates. These high-stake seats include Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary constituency Varanasi. Polling on these 54 seats will also mark the end of the almost month-long voting process in the politically crucial state of Uttar
Pradesh that began on February 10 after the announcement of the election in mid-January. The campaigning for the final phase ended on Saturday with the ruling BJP and its rival parties attacking each other on a range of issues, from the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, law and order, economic and security situation to the farmers’ stir. The counting of votes will be undertaken on March 10.
India Continuing Efforts to Evacuate Over 700 Students from Ukraine’s Sumy
Separately, the Indian embassy in Hungary said it is in the “last leg” of its evacuation mission and asked students who are staying in their own accommodations to reach Budapest for return to India
By PTI
India on Sunday continued its efforts to evacuate over 700 Indian students from the embattled northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy but with little success as severe shelling and airstrikes continued. Separately, the Indian embassy in Hungary said it is in the “last leg” of its evacuation mission and asked students who are staying in their own accommodations to reach Budapest for return to India. India has brought back over 15,920 of its nationals in 76 flights under mission “Operation Ganga’ which was 
launched on February 26 following Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine, according to officials here. On Indians stuck in Sumy, people familiar with the matter said there was no indication yet from the Russian and Ukrainian sides to create a “humanitarian corridor” or to put in place a ceasefire to evacuate them notwithstanding India’s repeated calls for such an arrangement. They said India has been stepping up efforts to ensure early evacuation of the students from the Sumy State University.
UP polls: Caste, not Hindutva; jobs, not free rations
In 2017, the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections took place against the backdrop of demonetisation and surgical strikes on a terror camp in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK). If the Bharatiya Janaya Party (BJP) was successfully able to spin thedemonetisation issue as poor versus wealthy, the surgical strikes were used to whip up an anti-Pakistan mood that got translated into an anti-Muslim mood on the ground. No chief ministerial candidate was named, and it was in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s name the election was fought. He was seen both as the saviour of the poor, who had, with a single stroke of the pen, deprived the rich of their wealth, the saviour of the truly nationalistic Indian, and protector of the Hindu religion.
