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  The Enforcement Directorate (ED) will produce her before a local court here seeking her remand. Jharkhand mining secretary Pooja Singhal was arrested Wednesday by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case linked to alleged embezzlement of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme funds in Khunti and other suspicious financial transactions, officials said. Officials said the 2000-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer was taken into custody under criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) after two consecutive days of questioning by the federal probe agency. Sources claimed Singhal was evasive in her replies, and hence was arrested. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) will produce her before a local court here seeking her remand. She had arrived at the probe agency’s regional office in the Hinoo area of Ranchi around 10:40 am for the second day of questioning and was arrested around 5 pm. Singhal was at the ED offi...

 GUWAHATI: After the ropeway accident in Jharkhand in which three persons died, the Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA ) has emphasised on regular maintenance of the ropeway service over the Brahmaputra in Guwahati so that there is no possibility of any such incident here. GMDA chief executive officer Kausar Jamil Hilaly told TOI, “The question of safety in Guwahati’s ropeway service after the Jharkhand incident is relevant. The ropeway over the Brahmaputra is very safe. Emphasis is being given on regular maintenance. The team concerned does maintenance work twice a day. Moreover, maintenance is also done by expert teams from outside the state twice a month. We also keep the ropeway service closed for 10 days in March every year for yearly maintenance. Usha Breco Limited is currently operating the ropeway service here in Guwahati after the Damodar Ropeways and Infra Limited completed its tendered period. Usha Breco Limited took over in March. Hilaly said the opera...

 The Article authorises the governor to decide on disqualifying an elected member of the state Assembly on the poll panel’s opinion. RANCHI: As a war of words between Jharkhand’s ruling JMM and opposition BJP continues over Chief Minister Hemant Soren ’s alleged office of profit case, legal experts claimed that in the light of earlier Supreme Court verdicts, it is unlikely that he will be disqualified as an MLA. The chief minister, who was accused of violating a provision of the Representation of the People Act, is currently not in Jharkhand and speculations are rife that he is consulting lawyers. Governor Ramesh Bais also called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi earlier this week but what transpired in those meetings is not known. Following the BJP’s allegation that Soren, while heading the mining department, allotted a stone chips mining lease to himself in 2021 flouting office of profit norms, Bais sent the party’s representation to t...