CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government on Monday appointed Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Premanandan as the new investigating officer to lead the probe into the devastating stampede during the rally of TVK president and actor Vijay in Karur.

PHAGWARA: A major cybercrime racket operating out of Phagwara has been unearthed after a police investigation exposed an illegal international call center running under the guise of a corporate office. Senior Superintendent of Police Gaurav Toora disclosed that the syndicate was generating nearly USD 20,000 (₹17.6 lakh) daily, with the proceeds laundered through cryptocurrency, gift vouchers, and hawala channels. He confirmed that 38 IT-trained employees have been arrested and are in police custody while the alleged mastermind remains absconding. 

BHUBANESWAR: The Director General of Police (DGP), Odisha, YB Khurania, on Tuesday instructed the officials of the state police force to expedite the investigation process into heinous crimes against women and take the lead in ensuring that the culprits involved in such crimes receive appropriate punishment.

CHANDIGARH: The All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) has demanded a high-level investigation from the UP Government into the formation of the All India DISCOM Association and the payments made to it by UPPCL and the other Discoms of Uttar Pradesh. AIPEF has demanded that UPPCL Chairman be directed to either resign from his position as General Secretary of the All India DISCOM Association(AIDA) or be removed from his post as UPPCL Chairman.

TARN TARAN: In a compelling statement released to the media today, Ravinder Singh Brahmpura, Vice President of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and Khadoor Sahib constituency in-charge, condemned the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for its alleged involvement in corruption that spans from Delhi to Punjab. Brahmpura asserted that AAP's image of integrity has been thoroughly compromised.

PHAGWARA: The Kapurthala Police have registered a rape case against a man accused of sexually assaulting his sister-in-law, following a two-year-long investigation. The incident reportedly occurred in the Sultanpur Lodhi area of the district.

PHAGWARA: The ongoing investigation into a suspected illegal beef processing and distribution racket in Phagwara deepened late Thursday night with the arrest of two more individuals, including a man reportedly linked to a local elected representative.

CHANDIGARH: Investigations by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the FIR no. 02 of 2021 registered in Police Station Punjab State Crime and the Vigilance Bureau reveal massive laundering of drug money facilitated by Bikram Singh Majithia. Preliminary investigations reveal that more than Rs. 540 crores of drug money has been laundered through several ways, including

INDORE: Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Meghalaya Police, which is campaigning in Indore, have arrested two more accused in the Raja Raghuvanshi’s murder case as the investigation deepens.

PHAGWARA: In a deeply distressing incident that highlights the dangers of financial exploitation in rural areas, a 40-year-old villager from Garha, near Phillaur died by suicide after allegedly being defrauded of a substantial sum by a private financier. The deceased, identified as Kashmiri Lal(40), reportedly consumed a poisonous substance on Friday afternoon and passed away later at DMC hospital in Ludhiana.

SYDNEY: Seven men have been arrested and charged following a major investigation into a criminal syndicate importing drugs into Sydney.

MUMBAI: Actress Shriya Pilgaonkar, who is known for ‘Mirzapur’, ‘Broken News’, ‘Taaza Khabar’ and others, is donning the uniform for her upcoming streaming show.

NEW DELHI: The government on Saturday said it is developing a digital platform to enable the electronic submission of documents in trade remedy investigations.

CHANDIGARH: Demanding investigation by an independent agency into the unfortunate incident of vandalizing of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar’s Statue followed by an attempt to burn the stone sculpture of the Constitution in Amritsar on the Republic Day, a delegation of senior leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party Punjab today met Governor Punjab, Gulab Chand Kataria, here at Chandigarh.

NEW DELHI: Substantial evidence has begun to emerge against the controversial short-seller Hindenburg Research and its founder Nathan Anderson in a court battle in Ontario, Canada, exposing Hindenburg's secret ties, and potential securities fraud and faulty disclosures made by the firm and the founder, according to media reports.

LOS ANGELES: NASA engineers have completed investigations on the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter which was permanently grounded on the Red Planet since its last flight in January this year.

PHAGWARA: The tragic death of nearly 23 cows inside a cowshed in the Mehli Gate area of Phagwara has sparked widespread grief and outrage.

NEW DELHI: English referee David Coote, who has been at the center of controversies that bring serious questions against the integrity of the refereeing body, has once again been put under fire as he is being investigated for a possible betting scandal.

PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron has ordered multiple investigations to be carried out after his phone number, as well as those of his former Prime Minister and the majority of his 20-strong Cabinet, appeared in the leaked database at the heart of the Pegasus Project, The Guardian reported.

 CHANDIGARH: Asserting that the investigations in the cases of sacrilege of Sri Guru Granth Sahib were moving fast in the right direction, Special Investigation Team (SIT) Chief SPS Parmar has denied a clean chit to Dera head Gurmeet Ram Rahim or anyone else, rejecting claims to the contrary as malicious social media propaganda.

CHANDIGARH: Asserting that the investigations in the cases of sacrilege of Sri Guru Granth Sahib were moving fast in the right direction, Special Investigation Team (SIT) Chief SPS Parmar has denied a clean chit to Dera head Gurmeet Ram Rahim or anyone else, rejecting claims to the contrary as malicious social media propaganda.

CHANDIGARH: In a bid to improve the efficacy of investigation and overall policing, the Punjab Cabinet on Friday approved the creation of 798 posts of Civilian Support Staff (Specialised Support Staff) in the Punjab Bureau of Investigation.

WASHINGTON: The Phase 3 trial of another investigational Covid-19 vaccine developed by biotechnology company Novavax, Inc., has started enrolling adult volunteers, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced.

ALIGARH(UTTAR PRADESH):  The students of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) have urged the state police to re-investigate the December 15 anti-CAA protest violence and drop charges against those who are "innocent".

CHANDIGARH:Rejecting the decision of Chief Minister Raja Amarinder Singh to handover the investigation of scholarship scam to the Chief Secretary, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab demanded the investigation to be carried out by CBI junder the supervision of the Hon'ble High Court judge. 

MUMBAI:Shweta Singh Kirti, sister of Sushant Singh Rajput, posted a new video on Instagram and Twitter on Wednesday, to reiterate her demand for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) enquiry into the death of the late actor.

CHANDIGARH:The Captain Amarinder Singh led Council of Ministers on Wednesday paved the way for Punjab Police to become India’s first police force to draw civilians as domain experts in IT/Digital, Legal Forensics and Finance to give a high quality cutting edge to its investigation functions.

SEOUL:South Korean police on Thursday closed the country's longest-standing cold case involving a series of brutal rapes and murders that began more than three decades ago.

CHANDIGARH:Punjab Revenue & Rehabilitation Minister Gurpreet Singh Kangar today in a statement released here said that taking cognisance of media reports published few day back about land scam in NH 105 B which connects Bathinda-Moga-Jalandhar-Jammu, he has already asked FCR to conduct thorough investigation to ascertain all facts.
Nobody found involved in any wrongdoing would be spared, the Minister added.

NEW DELHI:The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a private person on the allegations of working as conduit of Gun Dealers & officials of various districts of the then State of J&K and also indulged in various financial transactions with other co-accused persons including public servants in an on-going investigation of a case.

SRINAGAR:The National Investigation Agency (NIA) will proceed to investigate Davinder Singh and not wait for official notification (signing of documents) to interrogate the disgraced DSP, sources said.

PHAGWARA:On a complaint lodged by Smt Sonia resident of Bhagatpura locality in Phagwara the police have registered a case under section 363/366 IPC against unknown person on the charges of abducting the young daughter of the complainant in the pretext of marrying her daughter. The girl is missing since October 10. The Police are investigating the matter.

CHANDIGARH: Asserting that the state had no faith in the CBI in the matter of the Bargari sacrilege case probe, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday declared that his government would not, at any cost, allow the Badals to prevent the investigations from going back to the Punjab Police.

CHANDIGARH: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) senior Senior leader of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Leader of Opposition (LoP), Harpal Singh Cheema has said that the investigations relating to the ‘police gangs’ involved in extending patronage to the reining ‘drug lords’ in the state be handed over to the Special Task Force (STF) headed by Harpreet Singh Sidhu.