Mixed results on day one against ED

Thiruvananthapuram, August 11 (BPNS) The Kerala government has declared a war against the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and in the first round, it seems, it got mixed results from the Kerala High Court. While former state finance minister TM Thomas Isaac evoked a favorable oral remark from a single bench, the public interest litigation (PIL) filed […]

Curious case of Kerala Police’s X Cell

Dileep V Kumar, Thiruvananthapuram, August 9 Ever heard about the Kerala Police’s X Cell unit? Since its inception in 2020, it was only once that this unit’s name got mentioned at the government level. In the Cabinet briefing of August 3, the government confirmed the existence of such a unit as it decided to scrap […]

TN police seize 400-year-old idol, 4 arrested

Chennai, Aug 7 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu idol wing police arrested four people following the seizure of a 400-year-old idol believed to be of King Sethupathi’s clan Sivaganga.  Police acted on a tip-off that two men,  P. Arumugaraj (56) and M. Kumaravel (36) of Tuticorin were in the process of selling an idol and laid a […]