Mumbai, March 24 (IANS) Maharashtra Information Technology Minister Ashish Shelar, on Tuesday, in the State Assembly announced that the state government will formulate a comprehensive policy or law regarding the regulation of social media usage by minors in the state, which will be framed only after the report of the government-appointed task force. The Minister was responding to a ‘Calling Attention’ motion moved by Assembly member Rajesh Pawar regarding the impact of increasing usage of social…
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Kochi, Jan 15 (IANS) A Kerala court on Thursday sent notorious gang leader Maradu Anish, who is facing multiple criminal cases in the state as well as neighbouring Tamil Nadu, to judicial custody after he was apprehended during a police raid at a spa in Thrissur.The arrest came as part of an operation targeting a woman accused in a honey-trap case, during which Anish was apprehended unexpectedly.Thrissur City police had conducted the raid after receiving specific intelligence that a woman wanted…
Kolkata, Jan 7 (IANS) The name of the company involved in excavation work at the Deocha-Pachami coal mining project in West Bengal has figured in the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) chargesheet in connection with the sand smuggling case.According to sources, the ED has mentioned the name of Pachami Basalt Mining Limited in the charge sheet. The owner of GD Mining, Arun Sharaf, who was arrested in the sand smuggling case, had allegedly invested money generated from sand smuggling into this company…
Kolkata, Jan 3 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a charge sheet in the sand smuggling case, the central agency sources said on Saturday. The ED filed the charge sheet within 60 days of the arrest of Arun Sharaf and other accused, ED officials said.The charge sheet was submitted on Saturday to ED’s special court in Bankshall court premises against a total of 14 companies.The ED claimed that a corruption of Rs 145 crore has taken place.The investigating agency also claimed that thi…