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Yogi Adityanath keeps poll promise, waives off Rs 36,359 cr farm loan in first cabinet meeting as UP CM

Key issues in the BJP's poll manifesto, especially farm loan waiver, electricity in rural areas, are likely to be taken up during the cabinet meeting.

Oil min espionage: It's a Rs 10,000 cr scam, claims arrested journalist Saikia

The oil ministry espionage scandal got murkier today when former journalist and energy consultant Shantanu Saikia, who has been arrested by the Delhi police as an accused for stealing documents from the ministry and leaking them to corporate houses, claimed that the entire episode is a Rs 10,000 crore scam and that he was merely 'doing a cover up'.