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Thane, April 7 The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested a senior official of the Maharashtra education board on Tuesday after he was caught accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 from a contractor in Navi Mumbai, officials said.The accused, identified as Rajendra Manik Ahire (55), served as the...

Thane, March 31 The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested a junior engineer from the Public Works Department in Raigad district of Maharashtra, for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 2.5 lakh from a contractor, an official said on Tuesday.The contractor had completed work related to the...

Chandigarh, March 29 Three labourers were killed after a house under repair collapsed in the village of Pharwahi in Punjab's Barnala early Sunday morning, police said.The three labourers were trapped and injured in the incident, according to Sadar SHO Jagjit Singh, who added that the owner had...

Ballia (UP), March 26 A 33-year-old lineman died after being electrocuted while carrying out repair work at a village here, police said on Thursday.The incident occurred at the Ratsar power substation in the Khejuri area.According to police, Hriday Narayan Yadav, who was working on a...

Ghaziabad, March 23 – A Special CBI Court in Ghaziabad on Monday sentenced a former railway official from Agra to four years in prison for demanding a bribe of Rs 30,000 from a contractor.The Special Court found Rafi Ahmad, then Chief Yard Master at Agra Cantt Railway Station, guilty under the...

New Delhi, March 21 In a move aimed at citizen participation, the Public Works Department (PWD) has introduced QR code-enabled display boards on roads undergoing strengthening, officials said on Saturday.PWD Minister Parvesh Sahib Singh said the initiative aims to transform how people engage...

Mumbai, March 20 An eight-year-old boy died after accidentally falling into a water-filled construction pit in the Malad (East) area of Mumbai. A private contractor has been booked in connection with the incident, a police official said on Friday.According to the Kurar police station official...

Nashik, March 19 An executive engineer and an accountant from the Zilla Parishad were arrested by the Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau in Nashik for allegedly seeking and accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000, an official said on Thursday.Executive engineer Vaishali Thakare (42) and senior...

Dewas (MP), March 16 An illegal firecracker factory was discovered in the remote forests of Dewas district in Madhya Pradesh on Monday, leading to the arrest of three individuals, while the absconding operator of the unit has been booked under the stringent National Security Act (NSA), a police...

Beed, March 15 A case has been registered against a man for allegedly defrauding a labour contractor of Rs 22.8 lakh by promising to supply manpower for sugarcane harvesting in Beed district, Maharashtra, police said on Sunday.Based on a complaint, the Wadwani police recently registered a case...

Dhar, March 13 A group posing as Income Tax officials entered the home of a contractor in Dhar, Madhya Pradesh on Friday, claiming to be investigating the issue of undeclared wealth, and stole approximately 50 tolas of gold and several lakh rupees in cash, police said.The incident occurred at...

Bhopal, March 13 – A shocking incident occurred in the Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh, about 50 km from Indore, where a group of people posing as Income Tax (IT) officers stormed into the house of a contractor and made off with cash and jewelry on Friday.According to information, the incident...

Srinagar, March 8 The Economic Offences Wing of the Crime Branch Kashmir has filed a chargesheet against seven individuals accused of misappropriating funds from the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan scheme for school building work in the Kupwara district, officials said on Sunday.The EOW filed a...

Srinagar, March 8 – Jammu and Kashmir Police's Crime Branch announced on Sunday that it has filed a charge sheet against seven accused in court under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act.A statement from the Crime Branch Kashmir said, "The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) Kashmir...

Sultanpur (UP), March 6 A 32-year-old private lineman died here on Friday after coming into contact with a high-voltage power line while carrying out maintenance work, police said.The incident occurred in Arjunpur village under the Motigarpur Police Station limits in the evening while an...

Kolkata, March 5 – A manual scavenger died on Thursday while cleaning a manhole in Ward No. 12 of the Serampore Municipality in the Hooghly district of West Bengal. Two other workers also fell sick while working inside the same manhole.Following information that three workers had fallen ill...

Mumbai, March 5 A court here has granted bail to a contractor arrested in the Rs 65 crore Mithi river desilting scam, stating that he was not part of the conspiracy hatched by the co-accused and civic body officials.Shersingh Rathod (52), arrested by Mumbai police's Economic Offences Wing...

Patna, March 2 – The Special Vigilance Unit, Bihar (SVU), arrested Roshan Kumar, an Assistant Engineer working with the District Education Project in Bettiah, on Monday, allegedly for accepting a bribe of Rs 5 lakh.According to officials, the engineer allegedly demanded the bribe from a...

Gopalganj, March 2 A section of a small bridge under construction collapsed in Gopalganj district, Bihar, an official said on Monday.No one was injured in the incident that occurred on the evening of February 28. The small bridge was being constructed on the Ghoghari river in Siddhwalia block...

Gadag (Karnataka), February 25 The BJP staged a protest in Lakshmeshwar, Gadag district, on Wednesday in support of party MLA Chandru Lamani, who is currently in judicial custody after being caught accepting a bribe of Rs five lakh from a contractor a few days ago.Holding placards, banners...