Crime

  Bengaluru, August 19 Karnataka’s Drug Enforcement Wing has seized medicines worth ₹4.91 crore from an alleged unlicensed drug repacking facility near Bidadi on the outskirts of Bengaluru, Health Minister U.T. Khader said on Wednesday. The unit was inspected by officials of the Karnataka Food Safety and Drug Administration on August 18. The operation has […]

  Bengaluru, August 12 The Karnataka government has imposed a statewide ban on the manufacture, storage, distribution, transportation and sale of gutkha, pan masala and other food products containing tobacco or nicotine for one year. The prohibition applies to all districts and covers products sold in both packaged and unpackaged forms. It also includes tobacco […]

  Kozhikode ,August 9 Police have arrested Ajay Ayanki, 24, for allegedly helping his brother and history-sheeter Arjun Ayanki evade arrest and arranging financial support for him while he was on the run. Ajay, a resident of Azhikode in Kannur district, was taken into custody from outside an online delivery firm at East Nadakkavu in […]

Bengaluru, Aug 6: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested another absconding accused in connection with the 2022 murder of BJP activist Praveen Nettaru in Karnataka, taking the total number of arrests in the case to 25. The accused, identified as Ummar Farook M.R., was apprehended in Kochi, Kerala, during a targeted operation based on […]

Thodupuzha: A tea stall in Idukki district was allegedly being used as a front to sell narcotic substances and banned tobacco products using coded language, leading to the arrest of its owner during an Excise Department raid. The accused, Karissery Majeed Hashim, who operated a tea shop at Nedumkandam, was taken into custody following a […]

Chennai: A special CBI court in Chennai on Thursday sentenced underworld don Chhota Rajan to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment after convicting him in a fake passport case dating back more than two decades. The court also imposed a fine of ₹55,000 on the gangster for fraudulently obtaining an Indian passport by using forged documents and […]

Chennai, April 8 ,2025 The Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), the political arm of the influential Vanniyar community, has called for a protest demanding a CBI investigation into the suspicious death of a youth accused in an elephant poaching case in Tamil Nadu. In a statement issued on Monday, PMK founder Dr. S. Ramadoss raised serious […]

Chennai, Aug 3 (BPNS) Students of the Madras Indian Institute of Technology have requested the management not to allow unchecked labourers and workers into student zones like hostels and campuses during the night. This was after a worker at a juice shop on the IIT- M campus, Chandan Kumar (20) arrested by the police for […]

Chennai, July 28 (BPNS) The idol wing of the Tamil Nadu police has initiated steps to bring back an exquisite idol of Chola queen Sembiyan Mahadevi that was allegedly stolen from a village temple in Nagapattinam around a century ago. The idol has been traced to the Freer Gallery in the United States of America […]