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Gorakhpur terror funding mastermind arrested in Pune

Gorakhpur terror funding mastermind arrested in Pune

Ramesh Shah

Ramesh Shah

Lucknow : Gorakhpur terror funding mastermind Ramesh Shah has been arrested in a joint operation by the Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra Police, an official said on Thursday.

The arrest was made from Pune on Tuesday and he is being brought to Lucknow on transit remand.

Inspector General of ATS Aseem Arun said that soon after his arrival, Shah would be produced in an Uttar Pradesh court and taken on remand for further interrogation.

Six persons involved in criminal conspiracy and distributing money into various bank accounts on the instructions given by a Pakistani handler were arrested on March 24 from Gorakhpur, an official told IANS.

The 28-year-old Shah was the kingpin of the gang.

On his instruction, the ATS official said more than Rs 1 crore exchanged hands between the Pakistani handler and terror operatives, with major funds coming from the Middle East, Jammu and Kashmir and Kerala and distributed to various states.

Shah hails from Gopalganj in Bihar and has been operating a shopping mart in Gorakhpur for many years.

—IANS

Pune gets World Class Exhibition and Convention Center

Pune gets World Class Exhibition and Convention Center

exhicon-events-media-solutions-pvt-ltd-andheri-west-Messe Global Exhibition and Convention Center coming to City – this May 2018

Pune / Maharashtra: Messe Global, India’s leading Multicity Event Venue Company is developing ‘Messe Global Exhibition and Convention Center’ at Laxmi Lawns, Magarpatta, Pune. Anpress note announced the Joint Venture between Laxmi Lawns, Pune and EXHICON Group, India’s leading organization offering full gamut of Products and Services for Trade Fair Industry since 1996.  Messe Global Pune should be open for events by the first week of May 2018.

The venue is being built at existing Laxmi Lawns, spread over in excess of 15 acres of land of lush green lawns in Magarpatta, Hadapsar.

M Q Syed, Managing Director of EXHICON says “EXHICON has ventured with Magar Family to Build, Operate and Manage the biggest multipurpose venue in Pune. The facility won’t just serve existing occasions at Laxmi Lawns yet additionally bring the best and biggest exhibitions of Pune to this location”.

Satish Magar,Founder, ‎ Magarpatta City, shares, “For Pune city, with the growing economy and newer businesses coming up in the near future, such world-class exhibition and convention centre at par with European knowhow was badly needed since long. This JV with Messe Global is a boon for the city and will help in pooling in best of the global shows for Puneites”.

“Messe Global, An EXHICON Group Company is a multicity Event Venue company inspired by Germans which has plan to develop more than 14 Exhibition and Convention Centers in India by 2022. The organization presently possesses a one lac fifty thousand square feet multipurpose Venue in Mohali (Chandigarh) the biggest event facility in Punjab, Company has additionally acquired land to assemble biggest privately held multipurpose venue in Nagpur, the work for Nagpur site shall start in April 2019” Syed said.

Modi holds up Pune pensioner’s example to shame tax evaders

Modi holds up Pune pensioner’s example to shame tax evaders

TAXEVADORNew Delhi,(IANS) Delivering a warning to tax evaders to come clean on undisclosed income, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday held out the example of a retired fellow citizen who regularly contributes a part of his modest pension towards the government’s social development programmes.

“Particularly for those who have undisclosed income, I would like to present an example,” Modi said in his monthly “Mann ki Baat” radio address.

“Whether my words have any effect on tax evaders, the example of Chandrakant Kulkarni, whom I met in the smart cities event in Pune on Saturday will surely influence them,” Modi said.

He elaborated how Kulkarni, with a monthly pension of Rs 16,000, contributes Rs 5,000 every month towards the Clean India initiative.

Cheapest five-star room in Pune, most expensive is Florence

Cheapest five-star room in Pune, most expensive is Florence

fivestarhotelpunePune, (IANS) Historic, academic and cultural destination Pune, in Maharashtra, has emerged as the city offering the best deal on luxurious five-star accommodation at an average price of Rs.7,602 per night.

Florence, in Italy, proved the most expensive place for Indians who paid an average of Rs.33,734 for a night’s stay, said a new survey report of 2015, released here on Wednesday.

The Hotels.Com’s Hotel Price Index (HPI) listed the Pink City of Jaipur in Rajasthan next to Pune with an average five-star room deal of Rs.7,844 followed by Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital, ranking third at Rs.8,114 per night.

Chennai stood fourth with Rs.8,686 and Hyderabad fifth at Rs.8,701 per night, in the HPI report on hotel prices paid at major destinations around the world.

Other Indian cities, which featured on the study offering best five-star hotel deals, included Kolkata at Rs.8,727, Bengaluru at Rs.9,173, New Delhi at Rs.9,610, Vietnam’s largest city Ho Chi Minh ranking ninth in the list at average deals of Rs.9,700, and Mumbai at Rs.9791 per night stay.

Among the HPI report of top 10 cities worldwide where Indians coughed out most while booking five-star hotel rooms in 2015, Florence, Italy topped the list at Rs.33,734 per night, followed by Tokyo at Rs.32,102.

London, which topped the list in 2014, fell to the third slot at Rs.31,750, followed by New York at Rs.28,373 for a night in five-star luxury.

Other cities which made it to the list include Venice at Rs.26,698, Milan at Rs.24,311, Rome at Rs.23,754 and Paris at Rs.21,997, Hong Kong at Rs.21,916 and Barcelona at Rs.20,263 where Indians paid most for enjoying five-star comforts.

With four cities — Florence, Venice, Milan and Rome — figuring in the list, Italy proved to be the most expensive in terms of five-star accommodation deals for Indian travellers.

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