Biggest ever crackdown against GST violators, raids on 336 locations across India | Sept 12, 2019 Highlights

• The Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) and the Directorate General of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) carried out pan-India searches.
• Raids were conducted at 336 locations against exporters fraudulently claiming refund of IGST.
• This was the biggest-ever joint operation by the two premier intelligence agencies of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), officials said.
• The operation, involving about 1,200 officers from both the agencies, covered entities in Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh.

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee leads a protest march against National Register of Citizens(NRC)

Dr Mohammad Faisal, Spokesperson, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan: Pakistan will charge US$20 per person as service fees (not entrance fees) for #KartarpurCorridor.

Also Read: Pakistan wants to charge $20 from Indian sikh pilgrims

MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar says India will approach the International Court of Justice after Pakistan today denied second consular access to Kulbhushan Jadhav

India is not in favour of issuing visa to pilgrims who want to visit Kartarpur sahib corridor. 

Pakistan had earlier offered to issue visa to Sikh Pilgrims.

New multi-modal cargo terminal inaugurated today will increase transportation options for region: PM Modi

"Jharkhand is launching pad of big schemes which will benefit poor and tribals", PM Modi has said in a speech in Ranchi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the Kisan Man Dhan Yojana scheme. PM Modi announced this in his speech in Ranchi, Jharkhand.

Pakistan blocked the second consular access to Kulbhushan Jadhav, who has been sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court. The statement was released by the spokesperson of Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Pakistan, Mohammad Faisal READ MORE

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the new Jharkhand Assembly building and a multi-modal terminal at Sahibganj on Thursday. PM Modi will also inform the people about the ambitious pension scheme introduced for the farmer. 

He will also launch the Pradhan Mantri Laghu Vyaparik Mandhan Yojana and Swarojgar pension schemes under which beneficiaries between 18 and 40 years will get Rs 3,000 per month after 60 years of age READ MORE

The Jammu and Kashmir police has arrested three terrorists near Jammu-Punjab border on Thursday. The police has seized five AK-47 rifiles and Rs. 5 Lakh from the terrorist and they are being questioned in Lakhanpur Police Station READ MORE

Aishwarya, daughter of Congress leader D K Shivakumar arrived at the office of Enforcement Directorate office on September 2019. Shivakumar was also summoned by the ED to appear before it today. 

The Congress leader's daughter who is a management graduate and will be questioned. Her statement will be recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) READ MORE

There was a face-off between soldiers of the Indian Army and Chinese Army near the northern bank of the Pangong lake. The face-off was over after the delegation-level talks between two sides there. De-escalated and disengaged fully after delegation-level talks yesterday READ MORE

Lt Col Gaurav Solanki of the Indian Army posted with the India contingent in the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been missing since Saturday afternoon after he went kayaking in lake Kivu. The search operations are still on.

The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday told a Delhi Court that it has recently recovered some documents related to bizman Ratul Puri which are "crucial leads in providing the missing links"

"The said accused, throughout his interrogation, denied links with certain email accounts contrary to the evidence on record. The said documents linked to the said accused, traced recently are crucial leads in providing the missing links," the ED said in its application seeking further police remand of Puri in the AgustaWestland case. The agency claimed that the said documents were recovered during the raids conducted at the premises of Niamat Bakshi on September 7. Bakshi, who is allegedly a trusted friend and aide of the accused, was working on Puri's direction and was also responsible in manipulating and destroying of crucial evidence, the agency has claimed.

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the administration to enforce new asylum rules, which would cut down the number of asylum seekers, in a major political victory for President Donald Trump.

The decision allows the Trump administration to implement its policy while the litigation process in lower courts is on. Two of the justices of the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayer and Ruth Bader Ginsberg, dissented on the order.

In the second leg of his three nations visit, President Ram Nath Kovind, along with his wife Savita Kovind, arrives in Switzerland after concluding his visit to Iceland.

Breaking News Blog: President Donald Trump on Wednesday denied instructing an aide to urge a federal agency to repudiate weather forecasters who contradicted his claim that Hurricane Dorian could hit Alabama.

Trump responded to a New York Times report that acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to have the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration publicly disavow the position that Alabama was not at risk on September 12, 2019.