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New Delhi: The Centre has extended the deadline for linking of biometric identification Aadhaar to small savings schemes like post office deposits, KisanVikasPatra by three months to March 31, 2018.

"It has now been decided to extend the last date for submission of 'Aadhaar' number from December 31, 2017 to March 31, 2018," a Finance Ministry notification said.

The government has insisted on quoting Aadhaar for bank deposits, obtaining mobile phone and several other utilities to weed out benami deals and blackmoney.

New Delhi: The Communist Party of India (CPI) has written a letter to President Ram NathKovind urging him to ensure the Centre and states formulate a policy to reduce consumption of alcohol.

In the letter, party general secretary SuravaramSudhakar Reddy said there is no uniform policy on liquor and a majority of the states have made alcohol sales a major source of their revenue.

"As per the studies available, one person is dying every 96 minutes in India due to alcohol addiction. Besides, lakhs of people are getting health problems, family disputes," Reddy said.

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has attached assets worth 472 crore rupees, including one in Australia, in connection with money laundering probe in the PACL ponzi scam case. ED had registered a criminal case against the firm in 2015 based on a CBI FIR against the group, its directors and officials.

ED on Monday said that properties worth 472 crore rupees have been attached under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, PMLA in PACLponzi scam operated by Nirmal Singh Bhangoo. The properties include MiiResorts Group 1 Pty Ltd and Sanctuary Cove properties in Australia. PACL is being probed by multiple agencies.

New Delhi: Actor Kamal Haasan has asked his fans to bring to an end to their protest against RK Nagar legislator T T V Dhinakaran immediately.

Kamal in a tweet requested fans to not put him in a situation where he would be forced to throw out a few members from fan clubs. On Sunday, 53 people claiming to be Kamal Haasan supporters were arrested by Madurai city police for attempting to burn Dhinakaran's effigy.

Kamal and Dhinakaran have traded fire over the last few days. Last week, the actor launched a scathing attack on Dhinakaran in a column he penned for a Tamil magazine, as he called into question the manner of Dhinakaran's victory in the recently held RK Nagar bypoll in Chennai.