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New Delhi, April 5 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on Sunday that the process of installing Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with candidate settings for the 2026 Assam Legislative Assembly elections has been successfully completed across all 126 assembly constituencies in the...

New Delhi, April 5 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) said on Sunday that enforcement agencies have seized illegal cash, liquor, drugs, precious metals, and freebies worth more than ₹650 crore so far to ensure inducement-free elections in the ongoing state Assembly polls and bypolls...

New Delhi, April 5 Enforcement authorities in the four states going to the polls and Puducherry have seized over ₹650 crore worth of illicit cash, drugs, and liquor intended to influence voters, the Election Commission said on Sunday.According to data shared by the election authority, ₹319...

Medininagar, April 4 Five people have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the murder of a businessman in Palamu district of Jharkhand, police said on Saturday.Sameer Khalifa alias Guddu (36), a resident of Kanji House Colony, was shot dead by three unidentified individuals around...

Lalgudi (Tamil Nadu), April 3 An election flying squad team, led by the Lalgudi Returning Officer (RO), seized approximately Rs 50 lakh in unaccounted cash from a 65-year-old resident of Valavanur village here, sources said.According to sources from the Revenue Divisional Office, the man is a...

Ahmedabad, April 2 – The State Monitoring Cell (SMC) seized approximately Rs 81.92 lakh worth of foreign liquor during a raid near Chharodi village on the Sanand-Viramgam highway in Ahmedabad Rural, officials said on Thursday, as part of an operation targeting an alleged illegal supply network...

New Delhi, April 2 – The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the bail pleas of Jharkhand's former Rural Development Minister Alamgir Alam and his private secretary Sanjeev Lal in a money laundering case linked to an alleged tender commission scam.The court, however, directed that the trial be...

Bhubaneswar, April 1 – The Odisha Vigilance on Wednesday arrested a senior official of the Odisha Police Housing and Welfare Corporation (OPHWC), who was found possessing a large amount of assets, including cash worth Rs 48.79 lakh and gold weighing more than 1 kg, during a search of his...

Kolkata/New Delhi, April 1 The Enforcement Directorate seized approximately ₹1.2 crore in cash and a locally made pistol during searches in Kolkata as part of an investigation into money laundering against an alleged criminal and his associated syndicate, official sources said.The action is...

New Delhi/ Kolkata, April 1 The Enforcement Directorate seized approximately ₹1.2 crore in cash during searches in Kolkata as part of a money laundering investigation against an alleged criminal syndicate, officials said.The action is being taken in the case against Biswajit Poddar, also known...

New Delhi, April 1 The Enforcement Directorate seized approximately Rs 1.2 crore in cash during searches in Kolkata as part of a money laundering investigation against an alleged criminal and a related syndicate, official sources said.The action is being taken in the case against Biswajit...

Bhubaneswar, March 31 The Odisha Vigilance Department on Tuesday seized Rs 45.41 lakh in cash from the possession of an officer, who could not satisfactorily explain the source of the money, an official said.Acting on a tip-off, a team from the department intercepted Odisha Police Housing and...

Ranchi/Palamu, March 31 – Jharkhand Police have seized over 700 kg of illicit “doda” – a raw material used in the production of opium – in coordinated raids across Ranchi and Palamu, officials said on Tuesday.The police also arrested three alleged smugglers and recovered cash and a vehicle...

Ranchi, March 30 – The Enforcement Directorate's (ED) Ranchi Zonal Office has filed a Prosecution Complaint (PC) before the special PMLA court against Santosh Kumar, his wife Lalita Sinha, and a shell firm, M/s Rockdrill Constructions (OPC) Private Limited, under the Prevention of Money...

Ranchi, March 30 – The ED filed a fourth supplementary chargesheet in the Special Court (PMLA), Ranchi, against five accused in connection with the embezzlement of government funds from development schemes, including MNREGA, in the Khunti district of Jharkhand, an official said on Monday.The...

Patna, March 28 – In a major crackdown on drug trafficking, the Patna Police has busted a large-scale drug racket and arrested two accused, seizing over 21 kg of smack, estimated to have a market value of around Rs 25 crore.The operation was carried out under the jurisdiction of the Alamganj...

Bhubaneswar, March 27 Odisha Vigilance officers arrested an irrigation department engineer on Friday, a day after uncovering assets allegedly disproportionate to his known sources of income, officials said.Acting on a tip-off, vigilance officers conducted simultaneous raids at five locations...

Bengaluru, March 26 According to the Karnataka CEO's office, as many as 34 candidates are contesting the by-elections for the Bagalkot and Davanagere South Assembly constituencies.Official data shows that Bagalkot received 26 nominations, of which 14 were found valid after scrutiny. On the...

Panaji, March 25 – A 22-year-old man was arrested in Quepem, Goa, for the illegal possession of suspected ganja worth approximately Rs. 30,000, officials said on Wednesday.The Quepem Police have registered a case against the accused under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS)...

Chennai, March 24 Election officials have seized cash, liquor, drugs, and other goods valued at ₹178.78 crore across Tamil Nadu.The surveillance and enforcement teams of the Election Commission deployed to monitor and curb illegal inducements seized ₹112.37 crore worth of precious metals...