CBI awaits nod to act against 279 over graft
At a time when the country is witnessing an outcry against corruption, 279 CBI applications seeking sanction to prosecute senior government officials in corruption cases are pending with different Cen
RTI activists at gunpoint, govt must step in
Shashidhar Mishra could have spent his entire life as a street vendor in his native village at Begusarai, Bihar. But he decided to get the information kept in the government files unlocked by filing more than 1,000 RTI applications. The reward he got was death. He was killed in his native village by unidentified
DRI to collect details of Patanjali’s medicines
More trouble seems to be in store for yoga guru Baba Ramdev with the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) planning to send a team of its officials to Patanjali Yogpeeth next week to collect detai
CBI to probe breach of rules in National Museum contract
The CBI has registered a preliminary enquiry (PE) against two senior officials of the National Museum to probe their role in alleged irregularities in awarding contract of maintenance and storage of museum items in 2008.
CBI scrutinises 20 complaints
The CBI has started scrutinising complaints, related to large scale financial irregularities in Commonwealth Games (CWG) projects, received by the agency recently. The agency has received 20 fresh complaints related to irregularities in CWG contracts.
Top govt officials may be booked over assets
The CBI, which has registered 14 cases so far while probing alleged corruption in the Commonwealth Games (CWG), is likely to book certain government officials for allegedly possessing assets disproportionate to their known sources of income.
Shankaran cites poor jail conditions
The prime suspect in the Naval warroom leak case, Ravi Shankaran, seems to have tried to escape extradition from London on the pretext of poor prison conditions in India.
10 more CBI cases related to CWG?
The CBI, probing various cases in the conduct of the Commonwealth Games (CWG), is likely to register at least 10 more FIRs based on the findings of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG)’s report on the CWG, tabled in Parliament on Friday.
ED noose on Baba tightens
The noose around Baba Ramdev tightened further with the ED considering to send a “letter of request” (LR) to Scotland to get details of alleged overseas investments made by yoga guru or organisations associated with him there.
Cops probe hawala role in 13/7 blasts
Intelligence agencies, probing the recent Mumbai blasts, have zeroed in on three hawala operators of the country and are investigating their role, if any, in allegedly transferring funds for carrying