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From EU diplomats leaving India to flee Covid to the authorized battle with Cairn persisting, a roundup of what is making information at this time.
- Last Updated:May 13, 2021, 21:41 IST
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Sanjay Bhandari’s Extradition Hearing This Week: One extradition case ends, one other begins. It’s like a relay race performed at the Westminster Magistrates Court in London. Vijay Mallya is the greatest recognized amongst them, however earlier than him, there have been instances towards Nadeem, Iqbal Mirchi, Ravi Shankaran, and others, that each one failed. Success got here with the bookie Sanjeev Chawla, the first to contest extradition and who ended up getting bodily extradited. Mallya stood out as a result of he liked the media circus round him. Next got here Nirav Modi, however away from any media frenzy since he obtained jailed greater than two years again. Now it’s the flip of Sanjay Bhandari to seem at the court docket this week. He’s turning out to be as eager on ducking cameras as Mallya was in in search of them out.
29 Pakistani Men Arrested in Bradford over Child Sex Racket: It’s one Pakistani ring after one other getting caught in instances of abuse and rape of younger British women. In the newest of those instances to return up, 29 males have been charged with sexual exploitation and rape of a single lady over a seven-year interval. She was by way of this era aged between 13 and 20. The offences are alleged to have taken place in and round Bradford in north England, a metropolis with a excessive focus of Pakistanis. The males who’ve all been named, at the moment are on account of seem at the Bradford Magistrates Court on July 7 and 9.
EU Diplomats Flying out of India: We’re not into any exodus of international diplomatic employees from Delhi, however quite a few employees from European nations have returned to their nations. That contains a number of officers working in the German embassy in Delhi. The Polish authorities too has supplied the return possibility for its employees; one senior diplomat is reported to have been flown again already. These symbolize, nevertheless, solely a small fraction as but of diplomats working in India, principally Delhi.
Cairn-India Legal Battle Continues: Negotiations between Cairn and Indian officers to work out a compromise appear to be going nowhere at current. An arbitration tribunal awarded Cairn 1.7 billion {dollars} from the Indian authorities. India has challenged that order since in a Dutch court docket. The award came visiting retrospective however disputed taxes the Indian authorities deducted from Cairn earlier. Cairn has warned that it is going to search to grab the property of India’s public sector banks overseas if the Indian authorities doesn’t pay. These banks have been requested to alert the Indian authorities by way of its embassies of any such transfer.
India Trade Deal May Not Live as much as the Hype in UK: Britain’s one billion-pound commerce and funding take care of India introduced after a digital assembly between prime ministers of the two nations is starting to look smaller and smaller by the day. For a begin, quite a lot of commentaries in British newspapers had been operating headlines of 100 billion kilos of commerce, not ‘just’ one billion, however different worrying numbers are rising. A take care of India was being billed as an alternative choice to the EU following Brexit. But new figures present that British exports to the EU dropped 18 per cent over the first quarter of this 12 months. India commerce is just not anticipated by most to compensate for misplaced commerce with the EU. Some apprehensions are rising that Brexit could but be a catastrophe greater than any triumph.
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