Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, facing heat over the links of his office staff with a woman arrested in a cheating case, got a further jolt with leader of opposition VS Achuthanandan on Sunday demanding that he step down and order a judicial probe.
"His government has turned into a company that supports frauds, cheats and womanisers. Has there been a chief minister in Kerala like Chandy. It's a shame... he has to order a judicial probe and quit office.
"He can't escape by putting the onus of the present fraud on his staff members. We are going to raise this again and again in the assembly tomorrow (Monday) onwards," Achuthanandan told reporters at his official residence on Sunday.
The woman, Saritha S Nair and her former live-in partner Biju Radhakrishnan, had formed a company 'Team Solar' that was engaged in erecting solar panels at offices and homes. They had managed to collect crores of rupees from influential people in the state....
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04:43 AM, Jun 17, 2013
Los Angeles: Canadian model Leyla Ghobadi has claimed that rapper Kanye West had a fling with her, even though he's dating socialite Kim Kardashian. According to Leyla, 24, the rapper made advances towards her last year and even though his relationship with Kim was public, he invited her to his hotel room, reports Star magazine. After being tagged as hungry for fame, the model wrote a series of tweets justifying...
02:36 PM, Jun 13, 2013
New Delhi: A Tamil film actor-cum-director was arrested by Delhi Police for duping a Delhi-based businessman of Rs 5 crore on the pretext of facilitating a Rs 1,000 crore loan to his company, police said Monday. S. Srinivasan, 52, a resident of Chennai, was taken to Delhi from Chennai where he was lodged in judicial custody in another cheating case. "Srinivasan is involved in nine cases of cheating using the...
10:57 AM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: Tata Motors has filed a complaint before a Delhi court alleging infringement of its trademark and copyright by unknown persons manufacturing and marketing spurious ancillary automobile products under its name. In the complaint filed in the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vidya Prakash, the company said it has learnt that some unknown persons were engaging in business of manufacturing, trading, distributing, storing and selling counterfeit and spurious products...
07:44 AM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: South Indian actress Leena Maria Paul, who was on the run after allegedly cheating a Chennai bank of Rs 19 crore, was today arrested from a farmhouse here while her male accomplice managed to escape. Paul, who has acted in national award winner Mohanlal-starrer 'Red Chillies', was arrested early this morning from Khari Farms in south Delhi's Asola during a joint operation by Delhi Police and Chennai Crime...
07:36 PM, May 28, 2013
Kanpur: Ninty three colleges of Chhatrapati Sahu Ji Maharaj University in Kanpur will be served notice on May 27 for their alleged involvement in mass cheating in the undergraduate and postgraduate exams of 2012-2013. "The examination committee of the university has probed the complaints of mass cheating against the colleges, mostly in Allahabad and Kaushambi, and they were found to be true," said Ashok Kumar, Vice Chancellor of the university,...
02:43 PM, May 24, 2013
Guwahati: Ten persons were on Sunday arrested for allegedly impersonating as candidates appearing for the Assam Medical College Entrance examinations and writing answer scripts for them, the police said. The police picked them up acting on a tip-off that a group of people, mostly students from Bihar, have arrived in the state to write the entrance examination for some candidates appearing in the examination after taking money. Assam Health and...
07:12 PM, May 19, 2013
Singapore: A 22-year-old Indian-origin student has been sentenced to 22 months in jail by a Singapore court for a series of cheating and forgery cases. Suraj Kumar Sarabjeet admitted to 10 counts of cheating and forgery in a district court in this city-state on Friday, the Straits Times reported. A polytechnic student, Sarabjeet posed as Captain Vincent Toh from the Singapore Armed Forces in January 2012 and ordered laptops worth...
07:20 PM, May 04, 2013
Jammu: A girl allegedly committed suicide in Rajouri district after she was caught cheating during her BA first year examination at Degree College Thanamandi, police said. Rubina (19) committed suicide by consuming poison on Tuesday after a case of unfair means was registered against her, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rajouri, Mubassir Latifi, said on Wednesday. The girl was reportedly caught copying during the English paper of her BA examination...
02:33 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Saharanpur: BJP president Rajnath Singh on Friday hit out the SP and BSP for extending support to the UPA government saying the two political parties have cheated the people by backing Congress and its allies at the Centre. "Despite their differences with the Congress, both SP and BSP have cheated people by supporting the UPA government," he said in public rally in Saharanpur. "The UPA government does not have the...
02:55 AM, Apr 13, 2013
Chandigarh: A gang helping class 10 and 12 students in Haryana's Rohtak district to cheat in examinations has been busted and five people, including the superintendent of an examination centre, have been arrested, police said on Saturday. "The Haryana Police has busted a gang which used to help students use unfair means during examinations for Class 10 and 12 of National Open School being held at a school in a...
01:45 AM, Apr 07, 2013
In the largest cheating scandals to hit the US public education system, 35 Atlanta public schools educators and administrators have been indicted on charges of large-scale racketeering and corruption. ...
08:00 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Nearly 1,600 students, caught cheating in Bihar's Class 10 boards, were expelled from the exams and over 100 parents who helped them use unfair means were arrested, an official said on Monday. ...
03:15 AM, Mar 19, 2013
More than 200 school students, caught cheating in the Class 10 board exam, were expelled and nearly 100 parents, who helped them use unfair means, were arrested in Bihar on Wednesday. ...
05:08 AM, Mar 14, 2013
The Bhopal Police has arrested a gang involved in helping candidates clear the high-level state civil services examinations. ...
08:30 AM, Mar 07, 2013
An Indian-origin woman, accused of lying extensively about her age and educational qualifications to get employment as a lawyer in New York and England, has been convicted here of forgery and conspiracy and faces upto seven years in prison. London resident Soma Sengupta, 52, was found guilty following a six-week bench trial in New York State Supreme Court of all charges in the indictment including criminal possession of a forged...
12:15 PM, Feb 16, 2013
A man hunt has been launched for two men who allegedly duped the all women Shatabdi Mahila Sahakari Bank here to a tune of Rs 1.30 crore on the pretext of taking loans for buying 27 cars, police said on February 5. ...
12:55 PM, Feb 05, 2013
Harvard University said on Friday it issued academic sanctions against approximately 60 students who were forced to withdraw from school for a period of time in a cheating scandal that involved the final exam in a class on Congress, drawing criticism from a high-profile alumnus. The school implicated as many as 125 students in the scandal when officials first addressed the issue in 2012. ...
05:33 PM, Feb 02, 2013
Robert Pattinson's friends think he has made the right choice in ending his relationship with Kristen Stewart. ...
03:34 PM, Jan 23, 2013
One of the most intriguing aspects of Lance Armstrong's 'confession' (apart from his having to look up the dictionary to see what 'cheat' means) is ...
02:00 PM, Jan 21, 2013
