Three Chhattisgarh government officials, including two IAS officers, and a businessman have been booked on charges of cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy by the police in Greater Noida in connection with an ED probe into an alleged liquor scam in the central state. The FIR was lodged on a complaint from the Raipur-based deputy director of the Enforcement Directorate.
Some 42 passenger trains have been cancelled across India to allow faster movement of coal carriages to tackle critically low stocks at power plants in the middle of blackouts and outages in many states.