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Congress' Gaurav Gogoi will be the party's deputy leader in the Lok Sabha and a letter about the decision has been sent to Speaker Om Birla.

Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi has written to Lok Sabha Speaker Birla informing him about the appointment of the deputy leader, chief whip, and two whips for the Congress party in the Lok Sabha, AICC general secretary organization K C Venugopal said on X.

While Gogoi will be the party's deputy leader in the Lower House, eight-time MP from Kerala Kodikunnil Suresh will be the party's chief whip, he said.

Virudhunagar MP Manickam Tagore and Kishanganj MP Mohammad Jawed will be the party's whips in the Lok Sabha, he said.

Earlier, the party had named Rahul Gandhi as the Leader of Opposition who was subsequently appointed to the post.

“Guided by LoP Rahul Gandhi ji, the Congress and INDIA parties will energetically champion the people's causes in the Lok Sabha,” Venugopal said.

(With PTI inputs)

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has posted over two dozen newly inducted and recently promoted cadre officers at various posts across its country-wide offices.

A total of 29 officers have been posted in the Assistant Director, Deputy Director and Joint Director ranks over the last week by the federal probe agency.

This includes the posting orders for nine ED cadre officers who were recently promoted by the Union finance ministry, making it the first time that these many officers from within the organisation were promoted to the Joint Director (JD) level.

The cadre officers have been posted as JDs at ED zonal offices in Bhubaneswar, Raipur, Bhopal, Chennai, Guwahati and at the ED headquarters in Delhi, according to an order accessed by PTI.

A JD rank is the cutting-edge post in the ED that is entrusted to supervise investigations related to money laundering and foreign exchange contravention.

These posts are usually occupied by officers from the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) and the Indian Police Service (IPS) who join the the agency on deputation.

A total of 18 IRS officers, who joined the ED on deputation recently from the Income-Tax and Customs department, were also posted as Assistant and Deputy Directors as part of separate posting orders issued last week.

The ED, an organisation under the Union finance ministry, is tasked to investigate financial crimes under three laws-- the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) and the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act (FEOA).

(With PTI inputs)

A PhD scholar has been arrested from Hyderabad for allegedly cheating a Delhi-based man of around Rs 20 lakh by luring him into earning more money by completing online tasks, officials on Sunday said.

The accused, Lakku Akhileshwar Reddy, is a resident of Telangana who is pursuing a PhD in Business Management and runs a flex printing business, police said.

"A complaint was received at the National Cyber Crime Reporting (NCRP) portal where Akshay Kumar Singh, a resident of Dwarka in Delhi, stated that on November 23 last year, he received a message on the online messaging app Telegram about a part-time job," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Dwarka) Ankit Singh said.

According to the complaint, the accused asked Singh to create an account on a website for buying and selling cryptocurrency and some prepaid tasks were assigned to him.

"Following instructions of the accused, the complainant invested Rs 20.16 lakh but he was cheated. Upon receiving the complaint, an FIR was registered and an investigation taken up," the DCP said.

During the investigation, bank account details were checked to trace the money trail, police said, adding the bank accounts were found registered in Telangana.

Following this, a Delhi Police team reached Hyderabad and nabbed Reddy on July 11, the DCP officer.

"Reddy disclosed that one Shiva is also involved in the crime. A hunt is on to nab the other accused," he said.

According to the police, five cyber crime cases were solved with Reddy's arrest.

(With PTI inputs)

Shivam Mishra from Delhi has secured All India Rank (AIR) 1 with 83.33 percentage in CA final exams.

The examination was conducted by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) in May. Mishra's father is a priest and an astrologer. He is the first member of his family to have a commerce background; said the topper.

"Initially it was hard to believe but later I checked and received calls from other council members. I am really happy," Shivam added

(With PTI inputs)

The Delhi Police on Saturday arrested a 22-year-old man for allegedly attempting to extort Rs 1 crore rupees from a businessman. The accused, Vineet Pandey, called the businessman’s son, threatening to kill his family members if he did not pay the large sum, the police said.

On July 10, a businessman who owned a jewellery shop in Karol Bagh’s Kingsway Camp told the police that his son had received a call the previous day from two unknown numbers, demanding Rs 1 crore. Following the call, the man immediately approached the police who filed a case under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) Section 308(4) (committing extortion by putting fear of death or grievous hurt in a person) in Northwest Delhi’s Ashok Vihar police station.

The investigative team noticed that the phone numbers from which the calls came had display pictures of gangsters who are currently in jail. The police interrogated the shop’s employees, ex-employees, and outsourced staff, but they were unable to get any leads. The phone numbers had also been switched off, and the caller’s address could not be traced. However, the police learned that the call had originated from Punjab.