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Operation Kaveri in full swing, MoS Muralidharan in Saudi to oversee the rescue

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Jeddah: Saudi Arabia has emerged as a key country which is ferrying out stranded citizens. The Kingdom is playing a very important role in the evacuation process and India has already established close contact since the fighting broke out on April 14, 2023.
Red Sea Port city Jeddah in Saudi Arabia has become a crucial point for foreigners in Sudan to escape and reach safe haven.
Minister of state for external affairs Muralidharan arrived here on Tuesday to oversee rescue Operation Kaveri at the control room in Jeddah. India has begun ‘Operation Kaveri’ – a rescue operation by the Indian Navy and Indian Air Force to rescue Indians stranded in the war hit African country. The control room was set up to facilitate evacuation and also ensured that necessary infrastructure was in place both in Sudan Port and Jeddah.

“I express my profound gratitude to Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, for making a part of Operation Kaveri to bring back stranded Indians safely from Sudan,” said Muraleedharan.
“Team is in full readiness on the ground,” Muraleedharan said in Jeddah.
The Minister will receive the first batch of Indians evacuated from Sudan port and who boarded INS Sumedha and are headed to Jeddah and expected to arrive in late evening of Tuesday, from here they would be flown to India.
The evacuees will be accommodated at Indian school in Jeddah.
There are 278 Indians on board this ship and there are close to 250 more who will be ferried to Jeddah,” according to the Ministry of External Affairs.

Another ship, INS Teg also pressed into the rescue mission that reached Port Sudan with additional officials and essential relief supplies, according to officials.
Two Indian Air Force aircraft are parked in Jeddah to bring the Indians back to India. C130J aircraft has a capacity of 300 people.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 25, 2023
ED seized Rs 859.15 cr under PMLA in illegal loan apps cases: MoS Finance

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New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has furnished a list of digital lending apps (DLAs) being used by the regulated entities (REs) of RBI to the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), which in turn has shared the list with the respective intermediary (app stores) and requested them to ensure that only the apps figuring in the list are hosted on their app stores.
This was informed by Union Minister of State for Finance, Bhagwat Kisanrao Karad, in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.
Giving information on addressing the issue of money laundering through illegal loan apps, the minister saod that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has been entrusted with the task of curbing money laundering under the provisions of PML Act, 2002.
The ED has initiated investigation under PMLA in several cases where the proceeds of crime have been generated and acquired by accused persons/entities through illegal loan apps, Karad said.
In these cases, the minister said that as on date, proceeds of crime of Rs 2,116 crore (approx) have been identified, out of which proceeds of crime amounting to Rs 859.15 crore has been attached/seized/freezed under the provisions of PMLA.
Further, assets amounting to Rs 289.28 crore have been seized under Section 37A of Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999.
Giving more information, Karad said that the RBI has issued master circular on Know Your Customer (KYC) norms/Anti-Money Laundering (AML) standards/Combating Financing of Terrorism (CFT)/Obligation of banks and financial institutions under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.
Under this circular, banks and financial institutions have been advised to follow certain customer identification procedures for opening of accounts and monitoring of transactions of suspicious nature to avoid its misuse for money laundering and reporting the same to the appropriate authority, the minister said.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 8, 2023
Watch Video: Massive Anti-Encroachment Drive Against Ex Minister, Former legislator, Ex MoS and Heirs Of Former Chief Minister – Kashmir News

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Fake news policing: Govt to hold separate consultation next month on PIB fact check, says MoS IT

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New Delhi: Amid outrage over a plan to give powers to its arm PIB to police fake news on social media, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Tuesday said that the government will next month hold discussions with stakeholders before the proposal is implemented.
The minister said that the rules for regulating online gaming are expected to be notified by January 31 after which these will be tabled in Parliament.
“We will hold separate consultation (on PIB fact check) sometime early next month,” Chandrasekhar said when asked about clarification on the proposed amendment to the IT rules 2021.
Chandrasekhar also said that the consultation on Digital Personal Data Protection Act is over and it is being processed within the realms of the government for notification.
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) last week released a modification to the draft Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, which it had previously released for public consultation.
While the consultation is largely going on for framing rules for online gaming, it added a small note in the due diligence section for the removal of content identified as false, fake or misleading by the PIB or any government-authorised agency.
Under the proposed amendment, the due diligence by intermediaries shall include making such efforts to not upload, publish, transmit or share information identified as fake or false by the Fact Check Unit of the Press Information Bureau, which takes cognizance of fake information both suo motu and by way of queries sent by citizens on its portal or through e-mail and WhatsApp and responds with correct information when the same pertains to the government.
The determination of fake news cannot be in the sole hands of the government and will result in the censorship of the press,” the Guild said in a statement here, voicing “deep concern” over the draft amendment to the Information Technology (IT) Rules.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

January 24, 2023