Investigation

NEW DELHI: India’s financial probe agency, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), has attached properties worth nearly Rs 4 crores of former Odisha MLA Pravat Ranjan Biswal and a firm named Media Guru Consultants in a ponzi scam. The case relates to fraudulent collection of funds from the public on pretext of issuing preferential shares by enrolling […]

NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached assets worth Rs 110 crores belonging to Karvy Stock Broking Ltd (KSBL) and its Chairman Comandur Parthasarathy in a money laundering case. The properties are in the form of land, buildings, share holdings, cash, foreign currency and jewellery under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, […]

HUNDERMAN, KARGIL: It’s been 23 years since Pakistan Army intruders tried to cut off Kashmir from India. While Kargil bore the intensity of the war, with our brave jawans thwarting the enemy’s evil designs, the villagers of the last village on the Line of Control recall the nights when they had to take shelter in […]

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Friday convicted former Coal Secretary HC Gupta, former Joint Secretary KS Kropha, Nagpur-based firm Grace Industries Limited and its director Mukesh Gupta after finding irregularities in the allocation of a Lohara East Coal block in Maharashtra. The Court of a special judge Arun Bhardwaj convicted HC Gupta and others […]

NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested another accused allegedly involved in revival of CPI-Maoist in the Son-Ganga Bindh region. A NIA spokesperson said that the anti-terror probe agency has arrested Rajesh Gupta, a resident of Bihar’s Rohtas district, in connection with its case related to conspiracy by CPI-Maoist cadres involving Central Committee […]