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In a major security lapse, <\/span>Prime Minister Narendra Modi was stranded<\/b><\/a> on a flyover in Punjab for 15-20 minutes after farm protesters blocked the route of his cavalcade while he was on his way to the National Martyrs Memorial at the Hussainiwala border with Pakistan. The Union Ministry of Home Affairs, \u201ctaking cognisance of this serious security lapse\u201d, sought a detailed report from the Punjab government and asked it to \u201cfix responsibility for this lapse and take strict action\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Key to the unprecedented security breach involving the Prime Minister in Punjab is how his cavalcade was, effectively, grounded for 15 minutes on a flyover en route to his destination. The Indian Express<\/a> spoke to several police, local officials and protesting farmers who blocked the road, to find that behind the <\/span>breach was a series of lapses<\/b><\/a> marked by crossed wires, the exigencies of politics and a failure by the state police and administration to respond as per protocol.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Only in the Express\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n At least <\/span>900 people were scammed of over Rs 1,200 crore<\/b><\/a> after they invested in an \u201cinitial coin offering\u201d floated by a Kerala man for a non-existent cryptocurrency, Enforcement Directorate officials said. ED sources said investment in fake crypto coins had taken place in 2020, mostly during the lockdown. The affected people had bought the \u201cMorris Coin\u201d, listed with a Coimbatore-based cryptocurrency exchange called Franc Exchange, in a manner similar to an initial public offering purchase.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n From the Front Page\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n The Assistant Record Officer court in Ayodhya has declared a government order transferring nearly 21 bigha (52,000 square metres) of Dalit land to Maharishi Ramayan Vidyapeeth Trust on August 22, 1996, void after finding the <\/span>transfer to be \u201cillegal\u201d.<\/b><\/a> The order comes five days after the investigation by The Indian Express revealed that local MLAs, close relatives of bureaucrats, and kin of revenue officials, bought land in Ayodhya to cash in on the momentum in the real estate market after the Supreme Court cleared the construction of the Ram temple.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n