KOCHI: ED deputy director P Radhakrishnan, who investigated the 2020 diplomatic-channel gold smuggling case in which the then principal secretary to Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan was implicated, has been asked to go on premature retirement with five years of service remaining. Sources said Union govt issued the order a week ago with President’s approval.Radhakrishnan was…
JAIPUR: Rajasthan’s anticorruption bureau (ACB) Thursday registered a case in an alleged Rs 2,000-crore scam linked to state govt’s midday meal scheme during the Covid-19 pandemic.ACB officers said the FIR names 21 accused, including officials of Rajasthan State Cooperative Consumer Federation Ltd (Confed), representatives of private firms and suppliers, who have been booked on charges…
BJP MP from Khandwa Gyaneshwar Patil INDORE: In wake of the Indore tragedy caused by contamination of the water supply, BJP MP from Khandwa Gyaneshwar Patil has called for greater public accountability, urging the people to bring deficiencies or contamination issues to the administration’s notice immediately rather than relying entirely on state intervention.“Whether it is…
BENGALURU: Neighbours cannot be casually dragged into dowry harassment cases, Karnataka high court has held, quashing criminal proceedings against a Bengaluru woman caught in a matrimonial dispute between a couple in her neighbourhood.“A stranger cannot be drawn into the proceedings for offences under Section 498A of IPC, between the husband, wife or family members,” Justice…
Thieves allegedly broke into 22 lockers at Sangli District Central Cooperative Bank’s Zare branch in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur and decamped with ornaments kept in safety lockers, police said. The theft was discovered when the bank opened Thursday. “Thieves cut the bars of a window using a gas cutter. The locks were broken using a gas cutter….
NEW DELHI: ‘Bol ke lab azaad hain tere,’ scribbled across a yellow chart paper, fought for space alongside a poster exhorting freshers to join the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. During the high-decibel Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) polls in Sept, the walls of democracy at North Campus gave opposing student parties the opportunity to stand…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Thursday (local time) met French President Emmanuel Macron during his visit to France and conveyed PM Modi’s warm wishes, underscoring the strength of the India–France Strategic Partnership.Sharing details of the meeting on X, Jaishankar said, “Delighted to call on President @EmmanuelMacron of France today and convey warm…
AIADMK leader Edappadi K Palaniswami NEW DELHI: Pushing for expansion of NDA in Tamil Nadu, BJP is crafting a high-pitched campaign to position the alliance as a natural choice for anti-DMK voters amid emergence of actor Vijay-led TVK as the third force in the state’s traditionally bipolar politics. AIADMK leader Edappadi K Palaniswami’s meeting with…
At a junction on Anna Salai in Chennai, a car edges past the spot where a traffic light once hung, slows down, curves into a U-turn and merges back without stopping. Almost 1700km away, in Bokaro, drivers approach roundabouts that have never needed signals at all, easing off instinctively. In Kota, the same idea of…
KANNUR: A Thalassery sessions court in Kerala sentenced Thursday seven BJP-RSS workers to life imprisonment for the 2008 murder of a CPM functionary, K Latheesh. Additional sessions court judge J Vimal found the seven accused guilty, and awarded them 35 years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 1.4 lakh each. Four other accused…
