At around 5.30 pm on Monday, Tamil media channels began reporting the demise of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa. Namely, Thanthi TV and Puthiya Thalaimurai, which later retracted the information. The Indian Express too followed suit, only to retract its tweet after a few minutes and change its copy to ... Read More »
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange denied Thursday that the Russian government or any other “state parties” were his group’s source for more than 50,000 hacked emails from the files of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta. In separate statements from WikiLeaks and in an interview with a television network supported by ... Read More »
Ex-collector of Barwani district Ajay Singh Gangwar, who was served a show-cause notice on Monday by the MP government on his alleged comments against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said on Tuesday he didn’t make any comment against the PM. Gangwar was removed from his post and posted as a deputy ... Read More »
Embattled Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya’s UB Group has denied allegations that it used 4.3 billion rupees ($65 million) of bank loans to now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines to buy property overseas. Mallya, a liquor baron and lawmaker, has been at an unknown location since March 2 after Kingfisher’s creditors stepped up pressure ... Read More »
