Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Thursday promised 50 percent subsidy for women who buy mopeds/scooters if the AIADMK retained power in the 2016 Assembly elections. The AIADMK leader also said that coupons worth Rs. 500 would be given to all ration card holders, school students would continue to get free laptop and farm loans would be written off in […]
» Read moreThe CBI has registered case against promoters of Paramount Airways on allegations of defrauding, diverting loan amount and cheating public sector banks. Searches were being carried out at seven locations at Chennai and Madurai, including residential and office premises of its promoter Thyagrajan and the company functionaries.
» Read moreFour workers were killed and two others seriously injured in an explosion at a firecracker unit in Elama Coundanur village in Omalur taluk here on Tuesday evening. The victims were identified as Raja, Ajithkumar, Priya and Vellachi. Alamelu and Kavitha were admitted to Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College Hospital. Their condition is said to be unstable. The police said that six […]
» Read moreDelhi Police Special Cell has detained a dozen men, all alleged members of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) following separate raids in Delhi-NCR and Uttar Pradesh’s Deoband. Sources in Delhi Police and Intelligence Bureau (IB) said that a massive quantity of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were also recovered from them and the terror suspects were planning strikes in the Capital. It is learnt […]
» Read moreFor the second time in three months, a St. Louis jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a huge award over claims that its talcum powder causes cancer. The jury deliberated eight hours on Monday before ordering the company to pay $ 55 million to a South Dakota woman who blamed her ovarian cancer on years of talcum powder […]
» Read moreIndependent MP and liquor baron Vijay Mallya, facing a case of loan default of over Rs. 9,400 crore, today resigned from Rajya Sabha, a day before Ethics Committee of the Upper House was set to recommend his expulsion. In his resignation letter to Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari, he said he does not want his “name and reputation to be […]
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