Nalini Chidambaram, the wife of former finance minister P Chidambaram, has been summoned for questioning by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with Saradha ponzi scam. Mrs Chidambaram, a senior lawyer, has been asked to appear at the directorate’s Kolkata office in the first week of September. Her name came up in the case after scam kingpin and Saradha Group chief […]
» Read moreTamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Tuesday announced various projects worth Rs. 310 crore for Anna University to improve engineering education in the State. Making a suo motu statement in the Assembly, she said a cloud computing centre at a cost of Rs. 160 crore would come up at the university. It will offer various services to teachers, researchers and […]
» Read moreA British woman was stabbed to death on Wednesday at a backpackers’ hostel in Australia and two people were injured, one seriously, in what police say may have been an “extremist” attack. A French man shouting the Arabic phrase “Allahu akbar” stabbed the British woman to death and wounded two men in an attack at a hostel in northeast Australia, […]
» Read moreA 5.5 magnitude earthquake hit northeast India on Tuesday morning, according to the Indian Meteorological Department. The epicentre of the earthquake was in Myanmar and regions across the India-Myanmar border felt the tremors. The earthquake occurred at 0741 hrs and there are no immediate reports of any casualties.
» Read moreIn an unusual case, as many as 40 knives were surgically removed from the stomach of a policeman here who claimed that he used to feel an “urge” to eat them. A team of five doctors carried out a five-hour long surgery on Surjeet Singh (40), who is employed with Punjab Police and is posted at Tarn Taran district, at […]
» Read moreActor-turned-politician Ramya, who has been trolled on social media for her ‘Pakistan is not hell’ remark, is now facing a private complaint in a Somwarpet court and a postcard campaign in Mysuru. Advocate K. Vittal Gowda filed a private complaint under Section 200 of Cr.Pc in the first JMFC court in Somwarpet on Monday, accusing Ramya of “insulting India” and […]
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