CM Jaya wants students shifted to govt college
File photo of Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa A week after three girl students of SVS Yoga Medical College at Kallakurichi near Villupuram in Tamil Nadu committed suicide, the state government has...
View ArticleThe plan that went awry
It all began on June 20 when Dhruvkishen Khatri, who had gone to buy designer jewellery for reputed gold shops in Bengaluru from Gold Bazaar in Andhra Pradesh, was returning to the city in an APSRTC...
View ArticleOn technical highground
Corruption cases against Jayalalithaa, Chandy and Chavan can be caught in legal hurdles These are challenging times for anti-corruption agencies, prosecutors, and defence lawyers. There are at least...
View ArticleAssets of educational trust attached
The Enforcement Directorate has attached assets worth over Rs. 104 crore belonging to T D Naidu, Chairman of Deen Dayal Medical and Educational Trust, in connection with two different cases. According...
View Article2 held for following, filming Jaya case judge
Bangalore: A youth and his driver were arrested by Wilson Garden police for allegedly following and filming a Karnataka High Court judge going in his car near Lalbagh late Thursday evening. On Tuesday,...
View ArticleJayalalithaa slams Centre for 'insensitivity' towards fishermen
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Saturday slammed the Union government for its alleged "insensitivity" towards the livelihood issue of lakhs of fishermen of Tamil Nadu. In a letter...
View ArticleMan pushes wife into flesh trade, arrested
CCB busts prostitution racket; woman found HIV+ The Crime Central Branch officers on Thursday busted a prostitution racket at a house in Ganapathipuram in Subramanyapura, by arresting seven persons,...
View ArticlePhoto on WhatsApp helps nab fraudster
PUNE: An alert showroom manager who spotted a fraudster's photo circulated on WhatsApp on his smartphone helped the Bundgarden police arrest the man for purchasing valuables to the tune of Rs 1.25 lakh...
View ArticleRowdy held for making threat calls from prison
A notorious rowdy, currently lodged in the Bangalore Central Prison at Parappana Agrahara, on Monday allegedly made threat and ransom calls to a local politician from a mobile phone. Palani, involved...
View ArticleFive held for cloning debit, credit cards
A gang of five that stole credit and debit card data and producing cloned cards to swindle money from accounts of card-holders in foreign countries has been arrested by Upparpete police. The police not...
View ArticleTamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa jailed, fined in graft case
Jayalalithaa faces a conviction, with a four-year sentence plus a Rs1 billion fine in the disproportionate assets case. It was a nerve-wracking day for the ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra...
View ArticleActivists cry foul as TN cracks whip on dissent
CHENNAI: A series of "extreme reactions" by the Tamil Nadu government to recent instances of peaceful protests have evoked sharp reactions from activists, who have termed it "strong-arm tactics"...
View ArticleMan posing as DIG arrested in Coimbatore
The police have arrested G. Shanmugadurai (49) of Saligramam in Chennai, and Meenakumari (40), who was accompanying him, on a charge of cheating the police and businessmen by...
View ArticleThree children among five held for theft
Police have booked five persons including three children in conflict with law, for alleged theft of mobile phones, CPU, monitor, keyboard and mobile recharge coupons. The arrested are Prem D’Souza (18)...
View ArticleEngineering seats racket busted in TN
The Tamil Nadu Crime Branch police on Thursday arrested three persons belonging to Orissa and Andhra Pradesh, for being part of an ‘engineering seats admission racket’ by opening three different fake...
View ArticleCentral intelligence agencies, TN police claim to have busted terror network,...
CHENNAI: Central intelligence agencies and the Tamil Nadu police claim to have busted a major terror network with the arrest of an ISI suspect in Chennai on Tuesday. Highly placed sources confirmed to...
View ArticleBangalore Police to shut down 'fake shopping portal'
Bangalore, November 19: A shopping portal, raided by police for allegedly duping gullible customers with false advertisements, will be shut down soon, a senior police official said Tuesday. "We will...
View ArticleISI agent, linked to Pakistan official in Sri Lanka, held in Chennai
CHENNAI: Central intelligence agencies and the Tamil Nadu police claim to have busted a major terror network with the arrest of an ISI suspect in Chennai on Tuesday. Highly placed sources confirmed to...
View ArticleHearing today after Jaya special case plea OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Actors...
Bangalore, Sept. 30: Karnataka High Court will take up Jayalalithaa’s bail plea tomorrow, advancing it from October 6 fixed earlier today after her lawyers sought an urgent hearing citing law and order...
View Article24 Sri Lankan fishermen remanded in custody
The Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Court here has remanded 24 Sri Lankan fishermen, arrested by the Marine Police on Thursday after they were apprehended by the Tuticorin station of the Indian Coast...
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