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[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Senior lawyer Dayan Krishnan, who was leading the proceedings for the extradition of 26/11 co-conspirator David Coleman Headley, will be spearheading the NIA's prosecution team which will make a watertight case against Tahawwur Rana. Krishnan will be assisted by a team including special prosecutor Narender Mann, an experienced criminal lawyer, who earlier represented CBI in Delhi HC, sources said.Krishnan, sources said, was instrumental in Rana's extradition proceedings as well and his team presented irrefutable evidence to the US judiciary, culminating in the dismissal of all of Rana's pleas and appeals. Krishnan was closely working with NIA when the extradition process began in 2019-20. He and his team also accompanied NIA to the US to present India's case, sources said, adding that he was assisting the team in an unofficial capacity due to US laws."He was instrumental in […]

[ad_1] BENGALURU: Byju's Alpha, a US-based financing arm of the edtech firm, said on Thursday that it filed a lawsuit in a US court against its co-founders Byju Raveendran and Divya Gokulnath, and former chief strategy officer and senior executive Anita Kishore. The complaint accuses them of engineering a fraudulent scheme to transfer $533 million in loan proceeds - referred to as the "Alpha Funds" - out of the company without receiving any value in return.In a statement issued to TOI, Raveendran denied the allegations, calling them "completely baseless and untrue". He said, "This lawsuit is a part of Glas' conspiracy to wrestle control of Byju's through all possible nefarious means. It is nothing but another cog in the wheel of lies that Glas, the illegal representative of disqualified lenders in the US, has been rotating for a long time […]

[ad_1] RAIPUR: The administration in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, has sent a notice to a well-known private hospital following allegations that "Dr John Camm, aka Narendra Vikramaditya Yadav", operated on former Chhattisgarh Speaker Rajendra Prasad Shukla, who died shortly after surgery in 2006.The notice seeks to know how long Camm was employed with them and details of the patients he saw. Shukla was a Congress MLA from Kota assembly constituency and was the first Speaker of the Chhattisgarh assembly, from 2000 to 2003.Camm, now in MP police custody, is accused of carrying out unauthorised cardiac surgeries on 13 patients in Damoh in two months, after which seven of them died.Camm's credentials as a medical practitioner are under scrutiny. Around 400km from Damoh, chief medical and health officer of Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur is probing allegations that Narendra Vikramaditya Yadav "treated" heart patients there too […]

[ad_1] JAMMU: An Army personnel was seriously injured after an unmanned aerial vehicle crashed after colliding with an Indian Air Force tower located within the high-security technical area of Jammu airport on Thursday. No official statement has been released regarding the incident yet.However, official sources said the UAV, a Searcher Mark-2 of the Army, crashed around 2.45pm during routine flying. The sophisticated Israel-made drone is used by Army in surveillance and reconnaissance operations along LoC. Naik Surinder Pal, a Defence Service Corps personnel, got injured in the accident and was admitted to hospital. A probe has been launched to ascertain the cause of the incident. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Tahawwur Hussain Rana, who played a key role in plotting the 2008 terror attack on Mumbai that claimed 166 lives, was arrested by NIA here on Thursday after his arrival from US on a special flight.The Pakistani-Canadian terrorist was produced before special NIA judge Chander Jit Singh, who held an in-camera hearing on NIA counsel and special public prosecutor Narender Mann's plea for a 20-day remand. Rana was represented by Piyush Sachdeva, provided to him by Delhi Legal Services Authority. After the hearing, the court sent Rana to 18-day NIA custody.Rana's extradition process was nothing short of a nail-biter with fears of sabotage looming till the flight touched down at Palam airport's technical area. The home ministry and the office of NSA, along with Intelligence Bureau, constantly monitored the flight ferrying Rana, taking precautions to thwart any […]

[ad_1] AGRA: A woman from Agra district reportedly 'delivered' 25 times and underwent sterilisation on five occasions in 30 months, from 2021 to 2023, to claim a govt dole of Rs 45,000, records at a community health centre in UP revealed.That this was no real woman came to light after a recent audit found fraudulent claims under the govt's National Health Mission-run schemes. The funds were transferred to a bank account opened by using fake documents in the name of Krishna Kumari, 35, who had no knowledge about the money. Her identity was misused for the scam.A complaint was filed against five persons, four of them health employees. Three of them were held Wednesday.The fifth accused is an agent from Nagla Kadam, the village where Krishna Kumari lives, police said. This agent allegedly opened a bank account in Krishna's name […]

[ad_1] DEHRADUN: A memo meant for trustees at The Doon School has stirred up a hornet's nest, prompting the school management to clarify that there has been no decision at all on the venerated boys-only institute turning co-ed.A message sent by headmaster Dr Jagpreet Singh on March 17 to members of the Indian Public Schools' Society - the school's governing body - included a four-page document outlining the logic for exploring a co-ed model.However, alumni expressed their concern over a shift to a co-ed system and its likely impact on the cultural DNA of the institute founded in 1935. To allay the worries, the school management issued a note saying that "no decision has been taken regarding the school becoming co-ed".What was meant to be an internal discussion about a potential shift to co-education, quickly snowballed into a public controversy, […]

[ad_1] MUMBAI: Former India captain Virat Kohli has ended his long association with German sports brand Puma to join Agilitas as an investor, sources told TOI. Kohli had inked an eight-year contract with Puma as its brand ambassador in 2017 in a deal pegged at about Rs 110 crore. The cricketer, sources said, declined to extend the partnership, refusing a Rs 300 crore deal offered by the brand for the next eight years. Puma India confirmed the end of the brand's partnership with Kohli. "Puma wishes Virat the best for his future endeavours....it was a wonderful association with him spanning over several years, many outstanding campaigns and path-breaking product collaborations. As a sports brand, Puma will continue to actively invest in the next generation of athletes and aggressively build the future of the sporting ecosystem in India," a spokesperson from […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Funds managed by BlackRock, the global investment behemoth, emerged as the largest subscribers of the $750-million private bond issuance by the Adani Group.The US-based asset manager, overseeing $12 trillion in assets, has taken on one-third of the $750 million issuance, which carries a tenure of 3-5 years, sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.This investment comes at a time when Adani Group officials are under scrutiny following a US Department of Justice (DOJ) indictment in a bribery case in Nov last year.BlackRock's move marks its first private placement in India's infrastructure sector - a segment the firm is increasingly bullish on. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Tahawwur Rana with NIA officials (Image Credit: NIA) NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency has released the first photo of Mumbai terror attacks plotter Tahawwur Hussain Rana after he arrived at Indira Gandhi International Airport.In the first photo, Rana, who arrived in India in a special plane from Los Angeles, US. He was seen with three NIA officials who seem to be taking him somewhere. With this photo, NIA said that they have formally arrested Rana following his successful extradition from the US and added that he was escorted to New Delhi by teams of NSG and NIA, comprising senior officials. The NIA investigation team arrested Rana, a Canadian national of Pakistani origin living primarily in Chicago (US), at the airport soon after he emerged from the airplane, after completing all the necessary legal formalities."With the coordinated efforts of […]