Kochi, July 4 (IANS) Top CPI-M leaders accused in the Karuvannur Cooperative Bank money laundering case appeared before the Special Court under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) at Kaloor, Kochi, and secured bail on Saturday. Among those who appeared before the court and filed bail applications were former minister and MLA A.C. Moideen, MP K. Radhakrishnan, former CPI-M Thrissur district secretary M.M. Varghese, along with five other accused.The court had earlier issued summonses dir…
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New Delhi, July 3 (IANS) The Opposition on Friday called the judiciary a “ray of hope” after as many as 23 leaders of major opposition parties jointly wrote a letter to Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and other judges, demanding the immediate suspension of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.The INDIA bloc and other opposition leaders alleged manipulation of the country’s electoral process in the letter to the CJI and said that they chose this unusual path because the…
Kolkata, July 2 (IANS) The family of the victim in the RG Kar rape and murder case has approached a Sealdah court after receiving a letter alleging that the viscera samples of their daughter were tampered with.The letter allegedly claims that the tampering took place at the State Forensic Science Laboratory in Belgachia in Kolkata and that three officials of the laboratory were involved. Following this development, the victim’s family moved the Sealdah court on Thursday and sought verification o…
Kochi, June 29 (IANS) The Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the alleged Sabarimala gold misappropriation case, on Monday widened its investigation by naming former Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) President P.S. Prasanth, former Board member A. Ajikumar and the then Board members as accused, making it the third successive board to face criminal proceedings in the high-profile case.Prasanth was a Congress leader and, after unsuccessfully contesting the 2021 Assembly polls, joined the CPI-M…
Kozhikode, June 29 (IANS) A month after scripting history as the first woman ever to enter the Kerala Assembly on an Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) ticket, 32-year-old advocate Fathima Thahiliya is already looking beyond the symbolism of her victory.Her focus, Thahiliya says, is firmly on transforming her constituency, Perambra, into a model constituency driven by tourism, better healthcare and quality education.Her election was remarkable on more counts than one.Wearing the traditional heads…
Thiruvananthapuram, June 27 (IANS) The CPI-M’s long-held claim that it pursued a policy of reducing liquor consumption through regulation rather than prohibition has come under renewed scrutiny, with official documents and administrative decisions from the previous LDF-led Kerala government painting a sharply different picture of its decade in power in the state. Fresh disclosures relating to the grant of bar licenses and the entry of multinational liquor giant Bacardi into Kerala’s low-alcohol …
Kolkata, June 27 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari claimed on Saturday that he had kept the promise to ensure justice for the family members of Tamanna Khatun at Kaliganj in Nadia district of the state in June last year, by ensuring the arrest of 12 additional prime accused absconding in the case, in the last three days. Tamanna’s mother Sabina Iyasmin Sheikh had a meeting with the Chief Minister in the afternoon of June 23 and in that meeting the latter assured her of justice f…
New Delhi, June 27 (IANS) The CPI-M Politburo has ruled out any immediate leadership change in Kerala despite the party’s crushing Assembly election defeat, effectively giving former Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and State secretary M.V. Govindan a reprieve while directing the state unit to undertake sweeping organisational reforms.At its two-day meeting that ended in New Delhi on Saturday, the Politburo concluded that the electoral setback stemmed largely from flawed candidate selection, orga…
New Delhi, June 26 (IANS) Following the West Bengal BJP government’s decision to introduce the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill in the state Assembly on Monday, All India Muslim Jamaat’s Maulana Shahabuddin and the Trinamool Congress opposed the move, saying the proposed law cannot be implemented until it is accepted by the Muslim community.Talking to IANS, President of All India Muslim Jamaat Maulana Shahabuddin Razvi Bareilvi called UCC “against the Constitution”.”The Constitution says that the U…
Thiruvananthapuram, June 26 (IANS) The Congress-led UDF is weighing a no-confidence motion against the BJP administration in the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, a move that could throw the state’s only BJP-led civic body into political uncertainty if the CPI-M-led LDF decides to extend support.The Corporation Council is scheduled to meet on Monday, when the opposition is expected to chalk out its strategy in the wake of the violent scenes witnessed inside the civic body earlier this week.The unp…