Top News Headlines of 20 February 2014
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- The income tax department on Wednesday raided 37 premises associated with Uflex Limited in nine cities and on suspicion of tax evasion.
- Two Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) MLAs staged a semi-nude protest on Wednesday.Veerpal Singh Rathi and Sudesh Sharma took off their kurtas in protest against the SP government for allegedly ignoring the problems of sugarcane farmers.
- Former Bihar legislative council chairman Tarakant Jha on Wednesday quit BJP and joined JD(U),alleging that he was humiliated by former deputy chief minister and BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi.
- Rural development minister and Congress MLA Chandra Shekhar Dubey was on Wednesday dismissed from the Jharkhand state Cabinet on recommendation of chief minister Hemant Soren.
- Virat Kohli rose to his career-best ninth position in the latest ICC Test rankings issued. Kohli broke into top-10 for the first time in his career and joined compatriot Cheteshwar Pujara, who slipped a rung to be on seventh spot.
- China’s Communist Party has launched a probe against former aide of Zhou Yongkang, the powerful chief of internal security in the previous Hu Jintao government.
- A 75-year-old Australian missionary has been detained in North Korea for allegedly distributing Korean-language Christian pamphlets, his wife said on Wednesday.