The US government blacklisted Russian firms, expelled Russian diplomats and barred US banks from buying sovereign bonds from Russia's central bank, national wealth fund and finance ministry.
Lalu Prasad Yadav had withdrawn over Rs 3 crore from the Dumka treasury while he was the chief minister of undivided Bihar.
Over the last week, there have been serious discrepancies between municipal corporation records and the state government's official bulletin.
The Congress Working Committee, which met on Saturday, demanded that the Centre refrain from restricting the autonomy of states to take emergency measures as the second wave of pandemic sweeps across the country.
Two seminars and a meeting, all devoted to regulation of OTT platforms, is what the I&B ministry admits to by way of consultation with stakeholders. No meeting with news organisations is mentioned.
The development assumes significance in the wake of the upcoming India-European Union summit in Portugal in May.