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Chandigarh, August 18Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday ordered a probe into the alleged fraud committed by a chit fund company.Mann shared this information through his Twitter handle.”A high-level probe has been ordered into the chit fund company ‘Pearl’ which created moveable and immovable assets worth billions of rupees…

New Delhi, August 18Blaming a woman complainant for “exposing” in sexually provocative dresses, a Kozhikode sessions court in Kerala has granted anticipatory bail to writer-activist Civic Chandran ndash; accused of sexually harassing her.District and Sessions Judge S Krishna Kumar said the charge under Section 354 A (sexual harassment) of the…

New Delhi, August 18 The Central Board of Direct Taxes has accused pharma company manufacturing popular Dolo-650 mg tablets of distributing Rs 1,000 crore freebies to doctors for prescribing the anti-inflammatory, fever reducer drug to patients, the Supreme Court was told on Thursday. Senior advocate Sanjay Parikh told a…

New Delhi, August 18The CBI on Thursday conducted searches at 25 locations in connection with a case of coins worth Rs 11 crore going missing from the vaults of an SBI branch in Karauli in Rajasthan, officials said Friday.The central agency had registered the case on April 13 following an…

Ghaziabad (UP), August 18Four members of a family, including a minor, were killed and another was injured on Thursday when the SUV they were travelling in collided with a stationary vehicle on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway (DME) in this district, police said.The accident took place near Kushaliya village, they said.Five people…

Mumbai, August 18 A suspicious boat with three AK-47 rifles and bullets was found off the Raigad coast in Maharashtra on Thursday, a police official said. Some locals spotted the boat, having no crew member, in Shrivardhan area, located more than 190 km from Mumbai, and alerted security agencies. …

New Delhi, August 18 A suspicious boat carrying a small number of weapons was seized off the Raigarh coast in Maharashtra on Thursday. Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has ruled out a terror angle saying the boat, having no crew member, got drifted due to inclement weather and reached…

Chandigarh, August 18 Verka will hike the milk prices by Rs 2 per litre from August 19. Earlier, Amul and Mother Dairy had done so, citing increased input costs. Read More | Source: The Tribune…

GS Paul Amritsar, August 18 SGPC employees manhandled a devotee near the Akal Takht at the Golden Temple here on Wednesday. The incident was captured by another devotee on his phone and the video went viral on social media. The victim, sporting a black turban and ‘gatra’, along…

Srinagar, August 18 PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday said she has asked National Conference (NC) leader Farooq Abdullah to convene an all-party meeting of Jammu and Kashmir to decide the future course of action with regard to election commission allowing outsiders to register as voters in the Union Territory….

New Delhi, August 18 The Delhi High Court has ordered that an FIR be registered forthwith against BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain on a woman’s complaint in 2018 alleging rape. While noting that there was a complete reluctance on the part of the police to even register an FIR, Justice Asha…

Satya Prakash New Delhi, August 18 The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the Delhi High Court’s order appointing a Committee of Administrators (CoA) headed by Justice AR Dave (retd) to run the Indian Olympic Association (IOA). The stay order came from a Bench led by CJI NV Ramana after the…

New Delhi, August 18 The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has issued orders to block eight YouTube-based news channels, one Facebook account and two Facebook posts. The blocked YouTube channels had a cumulative viewership of over 114 crore and were subscribed by over 85 lakh users, the Ministry said on…

Amritsar, August 18 2 members of Jaggu Bhagwanpuria gang have been arrested in Jandiala following a shootout. They broke a check point at Jandiala. Police chased them for 11 km. They fired at the police party and were nabbed near Wadalajol drain. Gurbhej alias Baba and Shamsher alias Karan, both…

Kapurthala, August 18 In a shocking incident, a Dhilwan (Kapurthala)-based jail inmate has alleged in the District and Sessions Court here that a jail security personnel had tortured him and written the word ‘gangster’ in Punjabi on his back with hot iron rods. Inmate Tarsem Singh has been lodged…