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New Delhi: The Indian mission in Abuja is in touch with authorities in Nigeria and Benin about a ship carrying 22 Indians believed to have gone missing in the Gulf of Guinea. 

MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said in a tweet that a merchant vessel Marine Express owned by Mumbai-based Anglo Eastern shipping company is presumably missing off the coast of Benin in the Gulf of Guinea.

He said the India mission in Nigeria is in touch with the authorities concerned and the situation is being constantly monitored. 

New Delhi: The CBI on Friday filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging a 2005 order of the Delhi High Court quashing all charges against accused persons in the politically sensitive Bofors pay-off case.

News agency PTI quoted sources saying that the CBI has came out with some important documents and evidence to challenge the high court order.

In the May 31, 2005 decision of the high court, all accused, including Europe-based industrialists Hinduja brothers, were discharged from the 64-crore rupees pay-off case.

New Delhi: West Bengal Police has arrested two JamatulMujahiddin Bangladesh (JMB) terrorists involved in a low-intensity blast in the Buddhist pilgrim town Bodh Gaya in Bihar during the Dalai Lama's visit last month. An official of Special Task Forces (STF) of the police said in Kolkata that Paigamber Sheikh, 24, and Jamirul Sheikh, 31, were arrested by STF on Wednesday. 

Sheikh was arrested from his home in Kankuria village in Murshidabad district, while Jamirul, who hails from Ratanpur in the same district, was nabbed from Darjeeling, the official said. Nearly 50 kg ammonium nitrate, materials used to make explosives and a laptop computer were seized from them.

New Delhi: The CPM has approached the Supreme Court challenging the Centre's decision to introduce electoral bonds and said the move "undermined democracy" and it would "lead to greater political corruption". 

Claiming that the scheme would clean up political funding, the NDA government had announced electoral bonds in the previous budget. It met with stiff resistance from opposition parties and initial reservations from the Election Commission.

CPM general secretary SitaramYechury said CPM was left with no choice but to move the SC.