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Saudi Arabia becomes first Arab country to get FATF membership

Saudi Arabia has become the first Arab country to be granted full membership of Financial Action Task Force (FATF) following its Annual General Meeting at Orlando in Florida,...

June 28, 2019

IDBI Bank launches paperless account opening facility for NRIs

IDBI Bank has launched the ‘NRI-Insta-Online’ account-opening process for Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) residing in Financial Action Task Force (FATF) member countries. The person will not be required to...

April 20, 2019

Modal Code of Conduct (MMC)

The Model Code of Conduct (MCC) is a set of guidelines issued by the Election Commission of India (ECI) to regulate the behaviour of political parties and candidates...

April 18, 2019

Pakistan could be blacklisted by FATF

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that Pakistan could be blacklisted by the Financial Action Task Force because of ‘lobbying by India’ after estimating that the country...

April 6, 2019

Australia sanctions Law to punish social media executives for violent posts

Australia’s parliament has passed a legislation to imprison executives of social media if their platforms shows real violence such as the New Zealand mosque shootings. Restrictive laws about...

April 6, 2019

Delhi Court reserves Order on Robert Vadra anticipatory Bail plea

Delhi court has reserved an order on Robert Vadra’s anticipatory bail plea for 1st April. Further, his interim protection from arrest till then in a money laundering case...

March 29, 2019

FATF Decides to Keep Pakistan in Grey List

International terror financing watchdog, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has decided to keep Pakistan on its grey list, despite India’s push to blacklist it in the aftermath...

February 23, 2019

Vijay Mallya becomes first Indian business tycoon to be named “Fugitive Economic Offender (FEO)”

Former liquor baron Vijay Mallya has become the first Indian businessman to be declared a Fugitive Economic Offender (FEO) under the newly enacted Fugitive Economic Offenders Act of...

January 7, 2019

Union Cabinet approves Amendment in POCSO Act of 2012

The Union Cabinet has recently approved amendments to the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act of 2012 to make punishment more stringent for committing sexual crimes...

December 29, 2018

Ministry of Home Affairs brings a booklet on cyber safety for school children

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has brought out a booklet on cyber safety for school children to inform them about different aspects of cyber safety. The...

December 29, 2018

Jammu and Kashmir becomes India’s first state to bring a law against ‘sextortion’

Jammu and Kashmir has become the first State in India to bring in a law banning “sextortion”, i.e. sexual exploitation of women by those in positions of authority...

December 19, 2018

Israel becomes a full member of Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

Israel has recently become a full member of the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global financial watchdog on money laundering, terror financing and other threats to...

December 13, 2018