-CNN-IBN The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) submitted their status report on the Adarsh Society scam was filed in the Bombay High Court on Monday. The court asked the CBI, ED and I-T Department to have a high level meeting to share information so that investigation is quicker. Two former Maharashtra Chief Ministers Ashok Chavan and Vilasraso Dekshmukh have been accused of allotting flats meant for war veterans...
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Jaganmohan's assets case: SC notice to 6 Andhra ministers, 8 IAS officers
-The Times of India The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to 6 Andhra Pradesh ministers and 8 IAS officers on a plea alleging that the CBI was not proceeding against them despite having sufficient evidence that they helped former Congress leader Y Jaganmohan Reddy accumulate massive illegal assets. A bench headed by Justice Dalveer Bhandari issued the notices to the ministers and the IAS officers and sought their stands on the...
More »Institutes refuse RTI replies till CIC reminds govt aid-Rajni Shaleen Chopra
In a spate of recent cases in Punjab, information seekers are being turned away by public institutions on the ground that they are not covered under the RTI Act, and are not obliged to share information about their functioning. This despite the fact that almost all these institutions have received financial aid from the state government. In nearly all such cases, the information seekers had to knock the doors of Information...
More »IPS blood on resource mafia by Rasheed Kidwai
A young IPS officer who stood in the path of a tractor-trolley carrying illegally mined stones after the driver ignored his calls to stop was crushed to death under the vehicle in Madhya Pradesh yesterday. The death of Narendra Kumar, 30, has blown the lid off entrenched syndicates that cart off natural resources after carving up the mineral-rich regions of the state among themselves with alleged patronage from players belonging to...
More »Suchitra Mahato, senior Maoist leader, surrenders in Kolkata by Ananya Dutta
A close aide of Kishenji, she was with him when he was killed in an encounter Senior Maoist leader Suchitra Mahato, a close aide of Communist Party of India (Maoist) Polit Bureau member Koteswara Rao, alias Kishenji, surrendered in the presence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the State Secretariat here on Friday. “For all these days I believed in the Maoist politics and have spent long years in the forests. But...
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