With each passing day things have got worse for former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is reportedly set to file charges against Koda and his former colleagues. Koda will be charged under Section 420 and 120-B of the IPC, both related to cheating and committing fraud. He will also be booked under Prevention of Money Laundering Act. Koda’s colleagues Kamlesh Singh, Bandhu Tirkey and Sanjay Chaudhary will also be booked under similar charges. The focu...

Kameshwar Yadav, felicitated by the then RJD government in 2004 for maintaining communal harmony, was on November 9 sentenced to life for the second time for inciting violence during the Bhagalpur riots of 1989. The court of seventh additional district and sessions judge Arvind Madhav pronounced Kameshwar guilty of killing 15-year-old Mohammad Qayyum, a resident of Asanandpur, on October 24, 1989, the day the riots broke out in the Silk City. Over a thousand people, mostly Muslims, were kille...

The media which spread wrong information about the matter should be ready to correct their mistakes as the DGP has again stated in the High Court that there was no organisation or movement in the name of ‘Love Jihad’ functioning in the state,  said T Arifali, Kerala Amir of Jamat-e-Islami. He added that the Press Council should come forward for the purpose. He was inaugurating the Islamic Centre in Kasargode in north Kerala on November 12. Mr Arifali recalled that Justice KT ...