K'taka police arrest model from Mumbai in honey trapping case

IANS | August 16, 2023 12:54 PM

Bengaluru, Aug 16 (IANS) Karnataka police have arrested a model from Mumbai in connection with a honey trapping case, police said on Wednesday. The gang extorted huge money by threatening the victims to convert to Islam and get circumcised.

17-year-old supporter of Islamic extremism arrested in Philadelphia

IANS | August 15, 2023 6:53 PM

New Delhi, Aug 15 (IANS) The FBI and the Philadelphia law enforcement officials have announced a case against a 17-year-old, who they say was a supporter of Islamic extremists, allegedly radicalised online, and had purchased materials that could be used to make bombs, a media report said.

'We haven't detained Senthil Balaji's brother', says ED

IANS | August 14, 2023 3:18 PM

New Delhi, Aug 14 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday said that they have not detained or arrested R.V. Ashok Kumar, the brother of arrested Tamil Nadu Minister Senthil Balaji, in a money laundering case.

PIL filed at Calcutta HC over JU ragging death case

IANS | August 14, 2023 12:37 PM

Kolkata, Aug 14 (IANS) A PIL was filed at the Calcutta High Court on Monday in connection with the death of a first year Jadavpur University (JU) student, who died under mysterious circumstances after falling from the balcony of a students’ hostel on August 10.

Questions raised on patronage received by main accused in JU ragging death case

IANS | August 14, 2023 11:48 AM

Kolkata, Aug 14 (IANS) Amid ongoing simultaneous investigations by the police and an internal committee of the Jadavpur University into the death of fresher Swapnadip Kundu, several questions are being raised on the kind of outside patronage that the main accused in the case received that made him so reckless in running a ragging racket at the students' hostel.