New Delhi: If media reports are to be believed then director Anurag Basus soon to be released film Barfi! has landed in a legal trouble. It seems that the film is going to face a legal battle against the Mumbai based company, Murphy Enterprises. Apparently, Murphy Enterprises has sent a notice to the makers of Barfi! about the use of the word Murphy in the trailers and songs. The films...
05:09 PM, Sep 12, 2012
Coal controller recommends de-allocation of Naveen Jindal's company. Former Goa CMs Digambar Kamat and Pratapsingh Rane face arrest. ...
11:50 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Hyderabad: Mining baron and former Karnataka Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, the prime accused in the illegal mining case involving Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC), on Tuesday alleged he had been "booked illegally". Reddy, lodged in a jail in Bangalore in connection with another illegal mining case, was presented before a special CBI court in Hyderabad through video-conference following the expiry of his judicial custody in the case. After seeking permission from...
11:21 PM, Sep 11, 2012
The Goa government has stopped work at all 90 mines in the state till a complete review of the same is done. ...
11:10 PM, Sep 11, 2012
New Delhi: Two former Congress chief ministers of Goa find themselves in the dock in the mining scam with the Justice Shah Commission indicting the Digambar Kamat government for blatant misuse of power. FIRs are likely to be registered against Digambar Kamat and Pratapsingh Rane. According to the Justice Shah Commission report, former chief minister Kamat indulged in abuse of power and was in the know of every illegality. The...
06:36 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Panaji: The Goa government has decided to stop work at all mines in the state till a complete review of the same is done. Following the decision, all the 90 mines in the state are slated to stop work till the completion of the review. This decision has come after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the state decided to review their working after the decision to implement the...
08:46 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said Muslims are outnumbering Hindus in Assam not because of the increase in illegal migration from Bangladesh but because Muslims are illiterate and bear more children. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, the Chief Minister took full responsibility for the communal riots and said that there were multiple reasons behind it. Here is an excerpt from the interview: Speaking on Devil's Advocate with Karan...
11:07 PM, Sep 09, 2012
Panaji: A day after Shah Commission's report on Goa's illegal mining was tabled in Parliament, the state government has decided to file FIRs against two former chief ministers and scores of bureaucrats for their alleged involvement in the mining scam. State Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar told reporters on Saturday that FIRs would be filed against former chief ministers Pratap Singh Rane and Digambar Kamat, the then Directors of Mines, then...
11:51 PM, Sep 08, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday directed registration of FIR into the illegal export of iron ore from Karnataka. It also asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to submit a status report into the illegal exports within six weeks. A Supreme Court-appointed committee on illegal mining in Karnataka its final report in February had come down heavily on mining companies and recommended the cancellation of their licences. Most...
03:55 PM, Sep 07, 2012
Madurai: As many as 33 per cent of all crackers units in Virudhunagar district function illegally, especially ahead of Diwali, sources said on Wednesday. These firecracker units engage unskilled workers through the contract system and sell crackers through brokers, who supply it to other parts of the country. These companies operating illegally produce sub-standard crackers, but they are packed under brand names of big companies. It is later transported to...
10:41 AM, Sep 07, 2012
New Delhi: The government on Thursday said it does not have specific details about the magnitude of illegal migration from Bangladesh to India as it takes place clandestinely. Replying to a unstarred question in Lok Sabha, Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said there are reports of illegal infiltration and immigration of Bangladeshi nationals, who manage to "infiltrate into the country despite checks and control" at the International border. JD-U's Arjun...
04:04 PM, Sep 06, 2012
Bangalore: Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has constituted special squads to check the illegal drawing of water. It has come to the notice of board that some residents are drawing water illegally by removing the water meters. If such cases comes to the notice of special squads, stringent legal action will be initiated against the guilty, it said in a press release. According to the BWSSB Act 108A,...
02:57 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Madurai: The deputy director of the Department of Geology and Mining, Kanyakumari was on Sunday arrested for his alleged role in illegal mining operations carried out by granite major Olympus in Melur. The arrest of J Rajaram came hours after three Tamil Nadu Minerals Limited (TAMIN) officials were picked up on similar charges. Dhayanidhi Alagiri was a partner of Olympus Granites Private Limited till 2010. Though Rajaram is not a...
12:34 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Chennai: A look out notice has been issued for Durai Dayanidhi, the son of DMK MP Alagiri. According to Tamil Nadu police sources, Durai is wanted for questioning in an illegal granite mining case. Sources further said that the Tamil Nadu police have also asked the immigration department to stop Durai, who was a director in Olympus Granite till 2010, from leaving the country. A total of 17 FIRs have...
07:20 PM, Aug 31, 2012
Madurai: A special police team along with bomb detection and disposal squad seized a huge cache of explosives from Sindu Granite in Thiruvadavur, which were hoarded without proper security and permission. The seized explosives includes ammonium nitrate 150 kg, cortex wire 250 meter, gun load 30 kg, gel 219 kg, 1800 ordinary detonator and 425 electric detonator. The Sindu granite has procured the explosives without getting permission from the police,...
12:11 PM, Aug 31, 2012
Mandya: A group of ABVP activists caused a flutter as they picked up an altercation with a group of over 150 youths travelling by a train suspecting them to be illegal Bangladeshi immigrants. However, during police intervention it came to light that the youths were construction workers from West Bengal, Bihar and Odisha heading to Bangalore, Railway Police DySP Arif Ali told PTI. The incident late last night delayed the...
10:38 AM, Aug 31, 2012
Madurai: The continuing crackdown against illegal quarrying in the region has, as on Monday, unearthed granite blocks estimated to be worth Rs 8,000 crore in quarries at Keelavalavu and Keelaiyur. Officials of the district administration have assessed 45,730 granite blocks in these quarries till date. These officials were part of the 20 special teams formed by Collector Anshul Mishra to assess the granite blocks allegedly hoarded by quarry owners in...
01:42 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Dhubri/Kokrajhar: Fresh incidents of violence on Sunday rocked strife-torn Lower Assam districts leaving one person dead in Dhubri and two injured in Kokrajhar even as protestors blocked a national highway in the state. Police said that a body with injury marks was found in Sukhanjora village under the Bogribari police station area in Dhubri district on Sunday morning, taking the toll in the violence since July 19 to 87. The...
05:57 PM, Aug 26, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court would go into the merit of an Allahabad High Court order imposing a cost of Rs 50 lakh and ordering a CBI probe against a former Samajwadi Party legislator who made an allegation of abduction and rape against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. The high court imposed the cost on Kishore Samrite while absolving Gandhi and his friends of the allegation of illegal detention and rape...
01:00 AM, Aug 22, 2012
