A day after his predecessor Manmohan Singh’s jibe that perpetrators of banking frauds have escaped to foreign countries with impunity, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday declared that those who had looted the country and gone abroad would be brought back. “I promise you that we will see to it that they return,” he said, in an obvious reference to liquor baron Vijay Mallya, diamond merchant Nirav Modi, and the former cricket administrator Lalit Modi. ‘Bengaluru in stranglehold of a troika’Mr. Modi attacked Chief Minister Siddaramaiah for “derailing” the administration of Bengaluru. Young woman from Mandya meets PMThe rally in the city on Tuesday was witness to a meeting between a young woman from Mandya and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. with 88% marks but could not continue her education as a bank had rejected her application for an education loan and this had prompted her to write to the Prime Minister.

Source: The Hindu May 08, 2018 20:31 UTC