Investigation into the attempted suicide by five members of a farmer’s family in Sanand on Monday has revealed that the main accused, a land dealer and an advocate, is related to the family, the police said a day later. Mansinh Sandhav, his sons Kalusinh and Hamir, and daughters-in-law Jatan Kalu Mansinh and Leela Hamir Mansinh had consumed pesticide in Vikramsinh Solanki’s house after the latter refused to give back their land....

The RTI application spilled out mind-boggling inconsistencies “THIS is our NREGS [National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme] farm pond [water harvesting structure],” says 24-year-old Dhanpati with a flourish. Puzzled by his rhetorical declaration, I ask him: “Where is it?” “It is this. You are standing on it,” he says with a wry smile. The farm pond, one of the agricultural revival measures planned by the Central government under the scheme, has not been dug at...

Former Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Gegong Apang was on Tuesday arrested by sleuths of a Special Investigation Cell (SIC) probing the Rs. 1000-crore scam in Public Distribution System (PDS) in Arunachal Pradesh. Mr. Apang was arrested outside the SIC office and later produced before a court of Special Judge at Lakhimpur in Assam. The court remanded him to seven days in police custody. Mr. Apang has been booked under...

Former Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Gegong Apang was on Tuesday arrested by the special investigation cell for his alleged involvement in the multi-crore public distribution system scam. " Apang was arrested based on material evidence and statement given by the other accused," the cell's investigating officer M S Chauhan said. Apang, who was summoned to the cell on Tuesday morning, was arrested under non-bailable sections. He was booked under section...

It’s probably the biggest scam in Mahatma Gandhi National Employment Scheme (MNREGS) in Rajasthan. Its exposes the ways, this flagship scheme of the UPA govt. at the centre is being plagued by embezzlement, fraud and Forgery at the grassroots. The office bearers of Jharni Panchayat under Seemalvada Panchayat Samiti in Dungarpur district made payments of more than 58 lakh rupees without a single work done. And worse, many of those...