Shan A S

1 week ago | newindianexpress.com | Shan A S

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: All six senior-most IPS officers in the state, who were included in the list of probables to replace outgoing DGP Shaik Darvesh Saheb as the next police chief, have expressed their willingness to be in the fray for the coveted post. Consents were given by DGPs Nitin Agrawal, Ravada A Chandrasekhar and Yogesh Gupta, and ADGPs Manoj Abraham, S Suresh, and M R Ajith Kumar.

1 week ago | newindianexpress.com | Shan A S

The extent of the couple’s links to criminal cartels became apparent after Sultan, a native of Tamil Nadu, was apprehended. It was revealed that, posing as a dealer of electronic gadgets, he frequently travelled to countries such as Malaysia and Singapore, where he used his connections with gold and drug traffickers to carry out illegal activities. Sources indicated that he had also been involved in gold smuggling, and that some of his visits to Malaysia were intended to procure hybrid ganja.

2 weeks ago | newindianexpress.com | Shan A S

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Bureaucratic procrastination seems to be plaguing the state at a time it’s battling the drug mafia that’s trying to pull the youths into the substance abuse snare. The excise department’s request for sanctioning a trifling amount of Rs 28,000 to translate the documents related to a drug case to Arabic so as to get the main accused, a key member of a drug cartel, extradited from the UAE has been kept in cold storage for the past 18 months by the taxes department.

2 weeks ago | newindianexpress.com | Shan A S

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Losing personal electronic devices, especially mobile phones, is something people dread. Apart from the financial setback, there is the fear of confidential data being compromised. But, not many are aware that the Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR), a portal created by the department of telecommunication, is their best ally in tracking down and retrieving lost or stolen phones.

3 weeks ago | newindianexpress.com | Shan A S

A senior excise official tells TNIE that Shaji’s “shrewdness helped him escape” this dire situation. “It seemed to be the end of the road for Shaji. But he clawed back to life in his own inimitable manner. He threw himself against the glass panel of the hotel room where he was held hostage and landed on the ground,” he says. When local residents called the police, Shaji feigned a drunken brawl with friends and complained of chest pain. The police took him to a nearby hospital.