The Enforcement Directorate has registered a money laundering case against businessman Vijay Mallya and chief financial officer of now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines on the basis of Central Bureau Investigation’s (CBI) probe into alleged wilful default of Rs.900 crore loan in conspiracy with IDBI Bank officials. In October 2015, the CBI had booked the case of corruption and criminal conspiracy against Mr. […]
» Read moreIn second such detention within a week, 31 Indian fishermen were, on Sunday, arrested by the Sri Lankan Naval personnel on the charge of fishing in the island nation’s waters, Tamil Nadu fisheries officials said. The fishermen, 22 from Tuticorin and nine from Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, were taken into custody along with their three country boats and a mechanised […]
» Read moreThe Banjara Hills police on Sunday morning arrested Ravela Susheel, son of Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Minister Ravela Kishore Kumar Babu, on charges of outraging modesty of a woman. His driver M. Ramesh was also arrested. The duo allegedly stalked a school teacher and tried to pull her into a car at Banjara Hills on Friday afternoon. After the woman […]
» Read moreThe Bengaluru Bench of the Debt Recovery Tribunal on Friday reserved its order till March 7 on an application by the State Bank of India-led consortium of banks seeking a garnishee order against the U.K.-based Diageo Plc to restrain it from paying a $75-million severance package to industrialist Vijay Mallya and deposit the sum with the tribunal. The Bench said […]
» Read moreA month after she was removed from the post of Tamil Nadu Mahila Congress chief, party MLA S. Vijayadharani, was on Friday appointed secretary of the All India Mahila Congress. A statement said the decision was made by Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi. A vocal legislator, Ms. Vijayadharani found herself in a controversy last year after her followers complained to the […]
» Read moreA 30-year-old woman has lodged a complaint with the All Women Police alleging that she was gang raped on a deserted road in Tiruvallur on Thursday night. According to the police, the woman, a resident of a village in Tirvallur working in a private company in Sriperumbudur, was riding pillion with her company manager Karthik, on Wednesday night. “She claims […]
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