On Saturday, the CBI questioned Lok Sabha MP Karti Chidambaram for the third day in a row as part of its investigation into the alleged Rs 50-lakh bribery for the issuance of 263 project visas to Chinese workers involved in the construction of the Talwandi Sabo power project in 2011, according Continue Reading
Lalu Prasad Yadav has been charged in a new corruption case over alleged irregularities in recruitment between 2004 and 2009, when he was Railway Minister, just weeks after being granted bail in a fodder scam case. According to sources, the new case has named Mr Yadav’s daughter and other family members as defendants. The Central […]Continue Reading
Karti Chidambaram, who is being investigated for alleged bribery in a new case, tweeted today that he has “lost count” of the number of cases filed against him. Mr Chidambaram made the remarks after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) searched multiple residential and official locations linked to him today. “I’ve lost track of how […]Continue Reading
The relatives of the four popular left-wing activists who were brutally murdered recently allegedly by the far-rightists –Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare, M M Kalburgi and Gauri Lankesh– have asserted that they would oppose any plan by the Supreme Court to hand over the cases registered in connection with the murder of the activists to the […]Continue Reading
A senior AIADMK leader, M Thambi Durai, has alleged an illicit nexus between the DMK, the prime rival part of the AIADMK in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and the BJP, which, as per a political observer’s opinion, is searching for a good partner to find easy inroads into the Dravidian heartland. As […]Continue Reading
The Central Bureau of Investigation officials, who have been assigned with the task of investigating the Muzaffarpur shelter home sexual abuse case, has conducted raid in the residence of a former state minister in Bihar. The minister’s husband is one of the prime suspects in the Muzaffarpur shelter home sexual abuse case. He has been […]Continue Reading
Putting an end to the suspicion that the BJP led Uttar Pradesh government may derail the investigation process in the infamous Unnao rape case to save one of its lawmakers who is the prime accused in the case, the government headed by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed the concerned authorities to hand over the […]Continue Reading
The Central Bureau of Investigation, which has investigated the controversial Aarushi-Hemraj murder case, has approached the top court of India, the Supreme Court, against the Allahabad High Court’s judgement, which annulled the Special Court’s judgment and acquitted Aarushi’s parents, Rajesh Talwar and Nupur Talwar, from all charges filed against them by the Continue Reading
Provoking the Congress party which is gearing up to demonstrate a powerful performance in the elections against its rivals, the Central Bureau of Investigation, which functions under the BJP (the prime rival of the parliament’ largest opposition party), has arrested Karti Chidambaram, the son of former central minister P Chidambaram who holds a powerful position […]Continue Reading
The special Central Bureau of Investigation court today is likely to announce the verdict in another fodder scam, in which at least fifty-six persons, including jailed Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Lalu Prasad Yadav and former Bihar Chief Minister Jagannath Mishra, are prime accused. Actually, there were nearly seventy-six accused in the case filed by the […]Continue Reading