Highlights: Sugar mills get nod to manufacture RS and ENA from sugarcane juice, B-Heavy Molasses

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Department of Food and Public Distribution (DFPD) has given its nod to sugar mills and distilleries to manufacture Rectified Spirit (RS)/Extra Neutral Alcohol (ENA) from sugarcane juice and B-Heavy molasses. In a communique to sugar mills, DFPD said, “Directed to refer to this Directorate order No 3(2)/2023-SP 15.12.2023 regarding no use of sugarcane juice/ B-heavy molasses for manufacture of RS and ENA and to say that sugar mills and distilleries are allowed to manufacture RS and ENA from sugarcane juice and B-Heavy Molasses.”

India's market regulator, Sebi, on Friday dismissed charges of market violations against National Stock Exchange of India (NSE), the country's largest stock exchange, in a 2019 colocation case.

The Supreme Court has granted bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who has been jailed for the last six months in the  excise policy case. The top court ruled that there is no impediment in arresting a person who is already in custody in another case for purposes of probe. A bench led by Justice Surya Kant and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan announced the verdict today morning. A Delhi court on Wednesday had extended the judicial custody of Kejriwal till September 25 in the case corruption case related to the alleged excise scam, being probed by the CBI. The probe agency had filed a supplementary charge sheet against Kejriwal, Pathak, Vinod Chauhan, Ashish Mathur and Sarath Reddy a few weeks ago. The run-up to this judgement has also seen the top court underscore the 'bail is the rule, jail is the exception' principle, laid down in 1977 by Justice Krishna Iyer, in connection with other cases under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, under which Kejriwal faces charges.

A Delhi court charged Congress leader Jagdish Tytler with murder and other offenses related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.

Special Judge Rakesh Siyal ordered Tytler to stand trial after he entered a plea of not guilty to the charges. On August 30, the judge had determined there were adequate grounds to proceed with the case against the accused. The court mandated that charges be filed for multiple offenses, including unlawful assembly, rioting, inciting hostility between different groups, unlawful entry into a dwelling, and theft. Tytler today pleaded not guilty to charges relating to the killing of three men outside Delhi's Pul Bangash gurdwara during the anti-Sikh riots of 1984.

India's growth potential is 7.5 per cent or more,  Reserve Bank of India chief Shaktikanta Das said on Friday, which is a little above the bank's full-year forecast for 2024 of 7.2%. "I think India's potential growth today ... is about seven-and-a-half-percent-plus," Das said at the Bretton Woods Committee's annual Future of Finance Forum.

As the authorities in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich continued their search for a sixth 'killer' wolf, two women in Mahasi village were injured in an attack allegedly by a wolf on Thursday night. The two injured have been identified as 28-year-old Gudiya, who is a resident of Singhia Nasirpur in Mahasi, and 50-year-old Mukima, who is a resident of Nasarpur in Mahasi.