Category: India

Actor Anupam Kher has had to cancel his participation in the Karachi literary festival starting February 5 with the Pakistan government denying him a visa. Kher was one of the 18 Indians invited to the four-day festival by the organisers but he is the only one who has been denied a visa. The other 17 Indian participants have been issued […]

Senior IPS officer Archana Ramasundaram was on Monday appointed Director General of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), the first woman to head a paramilitary force. Ms. Ramasundaram, a 1980 batch officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre, is currently Special Director, National Crime Records Bureau. She has been appointed to the post till the date of her superannuation — September 30, 2017 […]

The CBI has filed its first chargesheet against gangster Chhota Rajan and three former officials of Bengaluru passport office accusing them of criminal conspiracy and forgery over issuance of fake passport to him, which he used to escape to Australia. The chargesheet has been filed in the Special Court, Patiala House, which has also taken cognisance of it, CBI press […]

An alleged undercover Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agent, who had taken up job as a labourer at the Army cantonment in Pathankot, was arrested by the Punjab Police based on information provided by Intelligence agencies. The Indian Air Force (IAF) base in Pathankot was stormed by militants, reportedly belonging to Pakistan-based terrorist outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), on the intervening night of January […]

The Enforcement Directorate on Monday submitted before a Special court here that Kaveri Kalanidhi, the wife of Kalanidhi Maran, had actively participated in obtaining the proceeds of crime in a money laundering case connected with the Aircel-Maxis deal. Counsel for the Directorate, N.K. Matta, made this submission in reply to a query by the court that why the Directorate had […]

Thirteen students of a Pune based college have drowned at the Murud beach, near Alibaug in Raigad district while on a picnic on Monday. One student is still missing. Raigad police officials informed that a group of 116 students of BSc (Computer Science) of Abeda Inamdar College in Pune had come for a picnic to Murud, which is around 44 […]