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CHANDIGARH - A businessman, his wife and their son have been booked on charges of duping the Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) of Rs.5.47 crore, police said Thursday.
Abu Dhabi, June 17 (IANS/WAM) Sixty Bangladeshi workers have been arrested here in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after their employers declared them absconders.
PATNA - A brick kiln owner battered two minor sisters to death in a rural part of Bihar after one of them picked a piece of a brick to hammer a wood into the ground, police said Thursday.
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