Ø The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday filed a charge
sheet against former ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair and other senior officials
in the Antrix-Devas deal case for allegedly facilitating a wrongful gain of Rs. 578 crore to Devas Multimedia Private Limited. The charge sheet
has been filed in a Delhi court days after the commercial arm of ISRO, Antrix
Corporation lost its case in the international tribunal of arbitration in The
Hague over cancellation of the contract.
Ø The Enforcement Directorate has readied a formal request to be
sent to the United Kingdom under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) for the
“transfer” of Kingfisher Airlines promoter Vijay Mallya to India in the Rs. 900 crore IDBI Bank loan default case. According to a senior
official, the request has been prepared in consultation with legal experts. The
1995 treaty pertains to mutual assistance in the investigation and prosecution
of crime and the tracing, restraint and confiscation of the proceeds and
instruments of crime.
Ø BRICS will be unable to launch its showpiece university in 2016 as
foundational issues are yet to be resolved, highly placed diplomatic sources
have told The Hindu. BRICS Network University (BRICS-NU) was first mooted in
March 2015 and was scheduled to be launched in 2016. But the member countries —
Russia, China, India, Brazil and South Africa — are yet to find common modalities
for the unique venture.
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