The Enforcement Directorate is investigating a money laundering case involving the promoters of the Mahadev Online Book gaming-betting app. A German national is responsible for creating the program of the app. The investigation includes money transfers to foreign entities and the operations of the Mahadev group. The group operates through three layers, involving individuals like Saurabh Chandrakar and Ravi Uppal.

The plan is to improve the ‘efficacy’ and ‘transparency’ of contract-awarding work being taken up under the Centre’s rural employment guarantee scheme

The choice of an OBC face as Haryana’s new CM fits snugly into BJP’s strategic outreach to the backward classes, constituting 40% of the state’s population, ahead of elections.That he is someone with whom predecessor Manohar Lal Khattar goes back a long way spares the saffron party the risk of collateral damage due to the sudden change.