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The Enforcement Directorate launched raids at 17 locations across Kerala and Tamil Nadu today (8th August), targeting those linked to a luxury car smuggling racket. The operation pulled in high-profile names, including Dulquer Salmaan and Prithviraj Sukumaran, under the FEMA investigation.The ED's Kochi Zonal Office led the multi-city searches under FEMA, 1999, tracing foreign exchange violations tied to illegally imported premium vehicles. Teams covered residential properties, showrooms, and financial intermediaries across Kochi, Kozhikode, Thrissur, Malappuram, Kottayam, and Coimbatore.

App-based cab aggregator Rapido has received a five-year licence from the Karnataka State Transport Authority to operate cab services in the state. The licence, issued under the Karnataka On-Demand Transportation Technology Aggregators Rules, 2016, is valid until August 2031.

India's top auto industry body, The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers, or SIAM, withdrew a fuel contamination complaint just days after the government publicly assured citizens that ethanol-blended petrol was safe, saying some of the figures it had cited needed further verification.

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