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A Nicaragua-bound plane carrying more than 300 Indian passengers has been grounded in France over suspected “human trafficking”, authorities said Friday. The aircraft carrying passengers “likely to be victims of human trafficking” was detained on Thursday after an anonymous tipoff, the Paris public prosecutor’s office told AFP. The plane had taken off from the United Arab Emirates. The national anti-organised crime unit JUNALCO has taken over the investigation, prosecutors said. The prefecture in the northeastern department of Marne said the A340, operated by Romanian company Legend Airlines, “remained grounded on the tarmac at Vatry airport following its landing”. The plane had been due to refuel and was carrying 303 Indian nationals, it said. According to a source familiar with the case, the Indian passengers might have planned to travel to Central America in order to attempt illegal entry into the United States or Canada.
Enforcement Directorate sends third summon to Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal. He has been asked to appear before ED on 3rd January. India’s forex reserves jump by $9.11 bn to $615.97 bn for the week ending December 15. A day after wrestler Sakshi Malik hung her boots protesting the election of Brij Bhushan’s close aide Sanjay Singh as the chief of the Wrestling Federation of India, Bajrang Punia wrote a letter to PM Modi returning his Padma Shri award. “I am returning my Padmashree award to the Prime Minister. This is just my letter to announce that. This is my statement,” Bajrang Punia tweeted. “In the history of democracy in the world, 146 MPs have never been suspended. People should know that the democracy is in danger,” Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said as INDIA alliance stages protest against the suspension of MPs from Parliament. “It’s appropriate to protest and all of us will be at Jantar Mantar in Delhi” he further stated. In other news, former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot also criticised the suspension of a large number of opposition members from both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha calling it an ‘unfortunate incident’ in the history of Parliament. As per media reports, the Income Tax department raided India’s largest electrical wires and cables makers PolyCab India’s 23 manufacturing facilities, more than 15 offices and over 25 warehouses including senior management offices and residences for alleged tax evasion.
The number of fresh Covid-19 cases in Singapore jumped to 965 in the past week, up from 763 the previous week. The number of patients admitted to intensive care units (ICU) went up from 23 to 32 in the same period. Moreover, these are the highest numbers of new weekly hospitalisation and ICU admissions for Covid-19 patients in 2023, media reports said.
Disney should pay nearly $600,000 in copyright damages for using another company’s motion-capture technology to make its 2017 live-action remake of “Beauty and the Beast,” a federal jury in California said in a verdict on 21 December. According to media reports, the jury in Oakland found that Disney used Rearden LLC’s MOVA Contour software without permission to render the face of the Beast, played by actor Dan Stevens. Following these findings, the jury awarded Rearden more than $250,000 in actual damages and recommended that Disney pay Rearden more than $345,000 of its profits from the film, a Reuters report states.
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