In a crucial development in the phone tapping investigation, media house owner and key accused Aruvela Shravan Kumar Rao appeared before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) for questioning on Saturday (March 29, 2025). After spending nearly a year abroad, Mr. Rao landed in Hyderabad from Dubai in the early hours of Saturday and appeared at … Read more
Getty Images Covid vaccines saved lives. Lots of them. Research by the World Health Organization (WHO) now puts the number at 475,000 in the UK with many more kept out of hospital or off a ventilator. The jabs were a “scientific miracle” we were told at the time, our best hope of life returning to … Read more
Veena Vijayan. File image. | Photo Credit: TH A headline-hogging report that the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) in Chennai had recorded the statement of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s daughter and owner of a now-dormant IT consultancy last week, Veena Vijayan, dominated television chyrons and elicited sharp reactions from either side of the political aisle … Read more
Union Minister for Steel and Heavy Industries H D Kumaraswamy questioned the subsidy given to US-based micro chip manufacturer Micron Technology by the Gujarat government while addressing JD(S) party workers, in Bengaluru on June 14, 2024. A day after publicly asking if the subsidy given to US-based micro chip manufacturer Micron Technology is justifiable, Union … Read more
Police personnel outside the residence of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren ahead of the arrival of Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials for questioning in connection with a money laundering case, in Ranchi on Jan. 31, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Prohibitory orders were clamped in key areas of Ranchi, and a three-member team has been formed … Read more
K. Ponmudy arriving at the Directorate of Enforcement’s office at Shastri Bhavan in Nungumbakkam, in Chennai on Monday. | Photo Credit: B. Jothi Ramalingam The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on Monday took in DMK Minister for Higher Education K. Ponmudy for questioning after conducting searches for 13 hours in Chennai and Villupuram, in connection with an … Read more
Police personnel stand guard outside the casualty ward of the Government Multi Super Specialty Hospital in Chennai, where Minister Senthil Balaji was taken for a checkup on June 14, 2023 | Photo Credit: Special arrangement After nearly 18 hours of grilling, Enforcement Directorate officials have taken Tamil Nadu Electricity Minister Senthil Balaji from his home … Read more
The CBI officials concluded their second day of investigation of YSR Congress Party Lok Sabha member from Kadapa Y.S. Avinash Reddy in the murder case of former minister Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy on Thursday evening. Mr. Avinash was interrogated on the second day by CBI officials for eight hours and was reportedly inquired about his cellphone … Read more
A day after the Mumbai Police claimed it has busted a Television Rating Points (TRP) racket involving three TV news channels (Republic TV, Fakt Marathi and Box Cinema), a local court in Mumbai sent four people accused in the ‘TRP scam’ to police custody till October 13. They include owners of Fakt Marathi and Box … Read more