Once at the helm of businesses like Reliance Infrastructure, Reliance Capital, and Reliance Communication with a market capitalisation of $100 billion, Anil Ambani is the complete opposite of the popular idiom ‘rags to riches’. At least that is what he claimed in a UK-court where he was battling Chinese Banks that claim he owes them $680 million. Ambani told the court that his net worth was nearly zero or that his family would not step in to assist him when push came to shove.

An Indian-American woman, who raised her voice against alleged discrimination in admission of Asians in IV League schools, has announced that she will run for US House of Representatives, saying she wants to be a voice, not a noise for the community particularly the Hindus in the US.

Andhra Pradesh-born Manga Anantatmula, who worked as a federal government contractor in defence acquisitions programme management, has already become a presumptive nominee of Republican party from the 11th Congressional District of Virginia, making her the first Indian origin candidate to run for the House of Representatives from there.

In a tragic news, a teacher deployed for poll duty at the MCD primary school in Delhi's Babarpur died of heart attack.

Even before the voting for the Delhi Assembly elections started on Saturday morning, the polling officer, Udham Singh, complained of chest pain and severe uneasiness. He was taken to the hospital where he was declared dead. The police has sent his body for postmortem.

On Friday, Union Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Life Insurance Corporation Chairman MR Kumar sought to assuage concerns over the decision to list the government-owned insurer on stock exchanges.

Sitharaman had said in her recent Budget speech that the government would sell part of its 100 per cent holding in LIC through an IPO in the next fiscal year.

The number of deaths from China’s new coronavirus epidemic jumped to 722 on Saturday, surpassing the toll from the SARS outbreak on the mainland and Hong Kong almost two decades ago.

Another 86 people died from the virus, according to the national health commission, with all but five in hard-hit Hubei province, where the disease emerged in December.

In another conspiracy to instigate trouble in India, Pakistan is training a group of terrorists in Balakot to carry out attacks in India, sources quoted by Zee News have said.

According to the information, at least 27 terrorists are being trained at a Jaish-e-Mohammad camp in Balakot to infiltrate India. Eight of them are said to be from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). The sources also said that the camp is being run by Yusuf Azhar, son of terrorist Maulana Masood Azhar.

Twitter confirmed on Friday that the official Twitter accounts of social media giant Facebook Inc and its Messenger platform were hacked.

A Twitter spokesperson said in an emailed statement that the accounts were hacked through a third-party platform.

The Mumbai Police on Thursday busted illegal VOIP exchanges that were used to call defence persons seeking information related to key military installations.

The raid was carried out in a joint operation with military intelligence.

Two functional sim boxes were recovered with 100 slots each along with 200 SIM cards, two routers, three modems, antennas, batteries and connectors.

The polling for the 70-member Delhi Assembly got underway on Saturday morning, an election that saw the ruling AAP, opposition BJP and the Congress engaged in a bitterly fought high-octane campaign.

Over 14.7 million people are eligible to exercise their franchise in the polls that will decide the fate of 672 candidates.

The polling began at 8 am and will end at 6 pm, an official said.

The Supreme Court said it would hear on February 10 the pleas against protests at Shaheen Bagh as it did not want to influence the Delhi assembly elections by hearing the matter on Friday.

Polls in the national capital will be held on Saturday.

We understand there is a problem and we have to see how to resolve it. We will take it up on Monday. We will be in a better position by then, a bench comprising justices S K Kaul and K M Joseph said.

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