Former top CWG Organising Committee officials Lalit Bhanot and VK Verma were on Tuesday sent to Tihar Jail under 14-day judicial custody by a Delhi court for striking an "irregular" Rs 107 crore deal with a Swiss firm to provide various logistic supports for the Games. Special Judge Talwant Singh remanded the duo in judicial custody on the CBI plea that the investigation into the case was still going on....
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63 people under scanner in 2G spectrum case, CBI tells SC
Sixty-three persons, including promoters and CEOs of 10 telecom firms have come under its scanner in the 2G spectrum case, the CBI on Tuesday told the Supreme Court which expressed satisfaction over the ongoing probe. The central government, which is also party to the case, informed a bench of justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly that it is in favour of setting up a special court to try...
More »Check leakages to execute food Act efficiently
Increase in offtake under various public distribution schemes. Supply of wheat and rice will have to be doubled if the proposed National Food Security Act for targeted beneficiaries is implemented with the current delivery mechanism, in which leakages are too high, the Economic Survey for 2010-11 has said. “Once we give a legal guarantee to people about the food that they are to receive, if we try to deliver on this promise...
More »Mrs Boss caught with gold bricks
The wife of a top PSU boss has been caught collecting bribe in gold bricks, the CBI said today, the charge suggesting that the corrupt remain as audacious as ever in spite of the shakedown in high places. Abhay Kumar Srivastava, the chairman and managing director of Navratna PSU Nalco, and his wife Chandni have been Arrested. The CBI said Chandni took three 24-carat gold bricks weighing a kg each in...
More »Teachers ‘sell’ midday meal rice
The headmistress and a teacher of a primary school in Burdwan have been Arrested for allegedly selling off 250kg of rice meant for the midday meal scheme. The matter came to light on Tuesday when two farmers in Gonna village, where the school is situated, saw headmistress Banasri Thakur Mukherjee and teacher Joydeb Gorai “slip into” a grocery shop minutes after a cycle van carrying six sacks stopped in front of...
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