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  • 14,000 bottles of illicit liquor seized from local BJP leader’s chicken farm in Kerala

    Thrissur: A local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and his accomplice were arrested on Tuesday by the state police for illicit brewing. Over 14,000 bottles of illicit foreign liquor and over 2,400 litres of spirit stored in a hidden room inside a godown of the BJP leaderrs’s chicken farm  was seized by the local police. […]

    Twixor raises $2.4M from Season Two Ventures, Axilor Ventures and The Chennai Angels in Series A Round

    The intuitive solutions CX platform for intent-driven and micro-engagement solutions is planning an aggressive scale-up New Delhi/Chennai: Twixor, a Singapore HQ, low-code no-code (LCNC) conversational AI and process automation platform that helps businesses build hyper-personalized engagement solutions has announced that it has raised $2.4 Million in Series A round from Season Two Ventures (an Indo-US […]

    Need for close cooperation between Police & Customs organizations to combat menace of illicit trade: Former Pr. Director-General, DRI

    New Delhi: Mr DP Dash, Former Pr. Director-General, DRI and Former Chairman, Enforcement Committee, World Customs Organisation (WCO) and Think Tank Member, FICCI CASCADE said, “There is a need for close cooperation between police and customs organizations to combat the menace of illicit trade and take actions more appropriately.”   Addressing the concluding session of MASCRADE […]

    Manipulation of the intrinsic value of its share price by HOEC

    New Delhi: Hindustan Oil Exploration Company (HOEC), India’s first private oil and gas companies, has continued to ride the wave of misinformation to their stock exchanges and their shareholders. According to sources, HOEC has continued to cleverly use market forces to manipulate the intrinsic value per share of the company which today should be at […]

    Championing the Prevention of Gender Based Violence

    Mumbai: Violence against women is a serious issue globally and India is one amongst the countries that top the list. FLO-the Women’s Wing of FICCI in association with Humara Bachpan Trust (HBT), a Bhubaneswar based NGO, reiterated its commitment towardspromoting gender equality and prevention of gender-based violence against females. The 16 day intensive campaign was […]

    America’s Prisons Are Outrageously Unjust

    Even a cursory review of our prison system reveals the outrageous inhumanity to which hundreds of thousands of prisoners, especially young adults, are subjected to, many of whom are imprisoned for non-violent crimes, sometimes for life. Some of the cases I came across are simply heart wrenching, bringing tears to my eyes. The over-policing of […]

    Godhra train carnage case: 2 get life term, 3 set free

    Ahmedabad: A special SIT court here today convicted two of the five accused to the life sentence in the train burning at Godhra in 2002. The court also acquitted three others in the case.  These persons were accused of burning the S-6 coach in 2002 at Godhra. Six persons were absconding when the special court […]

    Sembcorp Reaches Agreement to Acquire UK Power Reserve

    by Sachin Murdeshwar Singapore : Sembcorp Industries (Sembcorp) is pleased to announce that it has reached an agreement to acquire UK Power Reserve (UKPR), the UK’s largest flexible distributed energy generator, for £216 million (approximately S$385 million1). The deal marks a major step in line with Sembcorp’s new strategy to position itself for the global […]

    Fake currency: SBI suspects involvement of miscreants

    New Delhi: The State Bank of India, SBI, said that there is a robust system in place for monitoring the quality of notes. The Bank’s statement came in the wake of the reports that its ATM at Sngam Vihar in Delhi dispensed fake notes of 2000 rupees on 6th of this month. It said, the […]

    IAS officer from Chhatisgarh arrested in corruption case

    Raipur : The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a senior IAS officer of Chhattisgarh B L Agrawal. Agrawal is presently posted as a Principal Secretary in Department of Higher Education. CBI arrested two more persons including his Brother-in-law. Earlier, CBI registered a case against Agrawal on the allegations related to payment of about 1.5 […]