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Charanjit Singh Channi
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi addresses a press conference after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cavalcade got stuck on a flyover in Ferozepur, at Punjab Bhawan in Chandigarh (Photo: PTI)
Live news updates: The Enforcement Directorate Thursday night arrested a nephew of Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, accusing him of involvement in a money laundering case linked to illegal sand mining. Bhupinder Singh Honey was arrested in Jalandhar, PTI reported.

Honey was arrested just days ahead of voting for the 117-member Punjab assembly on February 20.

India reported 149,394 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours. A total of 1,072 Covid deaths were reported overnight to take overall fatalities to 500,055.

has sought two weeks from the Supreme Court to find a solution with lenders on clearing dues and avoid being tagged a non-performing asset (NPA).

Lenders to the company being fought over by Reliance Industries and Amazon have told India's Supreme Court that its assets should be put up for auction after it missed payments.


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