corruption

Chandigarh, April 9 – The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Mohali, Punjab, has convicted and sentenced 11 individuals, including Rajesh Ranjan, the then District Manager of the Food Corporation of India (FCI), to three years of rigorous imprisonment with a total fine of ₹3.3 lakh...

Bhubaneswar, April 8 – Continuing its crackdown on corrupt state government employees, the Odisha Vigilance on Wednesday unearthed significant assets during simultaneous searches at properties linked to a senior official of the Department of Water Resources, based on allegations of accumulating...

Dehradun, April 8 The Uttarakhand Vigilance Department arrested an accountant working at the Lamgara Block office in Almora district on Wednesday while accepting a bribe of Rs 15,000, officials said.The accountant, Har Singh Bisht, also known as Harish Singh Bisht, was arrested at the Lamgara...

New Delhi, April 8 A day before the Assam Assembly elections, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi appealed to the people of the state on Wednesday to vote for change, asserting that the polls are not just about changing the government, but also about eradicating violence, corruption, and hatred.In a...

Madhepura (Bihar), April 8 The Bihar Police on Tuesday arrested a husband-wife couple on charges of allegedly defrauding a contractor of Rs 34.74 lakh by posing as senior government officials and promising to secure contracts, officials said on Wednesday.The accused have been identified as...

Pratapgarh (UP), April 8 A block programme manager working at a community health center here was arrested for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 in exchange for facilitating a job, officials said on Wednesday.The accused, identified as Amit Mishra, was caught red-handed by a team of the...

Chennai, April 8 – The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested two officials from the Goods and Services Tax (GST) department in Ranipet, Tamil Nadu, in connection with a bribery case, officials said on Wednesday.The arrested individuals are Yellamilli Rinkesh, a Superintendent of...

Shimla, April 8 Himachal Pradesh's Leader of Opposition Jai Ram Thakur accused Chief Minister Sukhvinder Sukhu of implementing a "Pakistan model" in the state on Wednesday, asserting that the BJP's sole agenda is to remove the current state government from power.Addressing a press conference...

Beed, Apr 8 A Talathi and a Gram Sevak were apprehended on Wednesday for allegedly accepting bribes of Rs 9,000 and Rs 500, respectively, in separate incidents in the Beed district of Maharashtra, the Anti-Corruption Bureau said.The accused are identified as Parmeshwar Jadhav (47), the Talathi...

New Delhi, April 8 Six agricultural input and fertilizer industry associations have written to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, urging him not to reintroduce a regulatory regime driven by inspectors for manufacturers and importers, warning that such a move would reverse key reforms...

Amaravati, April 8 YSRCP chief Jagan Mohan Reddy proposed MAVIGUN as an "economical and practical" alternative for the state capital, alleging that the TDP-led NDA government was promoting costly projects.Recently, Jagan suggested declaring Machilipatnam, Vijayawada, and Guntur (MAVIGUN) as...

Jaipur, April 8 The Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested the chief manager of the Dausa depot of the Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation on Wednesday for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000, officials said.The accused, identified as Vishram Meena, was caught red-handed...

New Delhi, April 8 The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain the bail plea of an advocate, arrested for allegedly demanding a bribe of Rs 30 lakh to secure a favorable judicial order in a divorce case, saying he was "selling the judiciary.""You (petitioner) tried to sell a judge in...

Mumbai, April 8 Mumbai Congress chief Varsha Gaikwad alleged on Wednesday that the city civic body has proposed allotting a prime plot in the Worli area to a "favored builder" for establishing a five-star hotel at a very low price, and demanded that the auction be stopped."Do not allot the...

New Delhi, April 8 The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday alleged that the BJP had prematurely dissolved the Municipal Corporation of Delhi's (MCD) standing committee to "facilitate corruption," and demanded that it be allowed to continue until June 12 to avoid disruption in civic works...

Indore, April 8 A 25-year-old taxi driver died by suicide in Indore after recording a video alleging assault and corruption by the police, prompting the authorities to suspend a sub-inspector, an official said on Wednesday.Abhishek Patil hanged himself at his home on Tuesday, the official...

Ranchi, April 8 – In a significant development in the multi-crore tender commission and money laundering case linked to Jharkhand's Rural Development Department, retired Chief Engineer Rajiv Lochan and retired Executive Engineer Anil Kumar surrendered before the Special PMLA Court in Ranchi on...

New Delhi, April 8 The CBI has arrested a manager and an investigator of National Insurance Company Limited in a bribery case involving an amount of more than Rs 2.6 lakh, officials said.It is alleged that the accused demanded an undue advantage of Rs 3 lakh from the complainant for...

New Delhi, April 7 The CBI has arrested a manager and an investigator of National Insurance Company Limited in a bribery case involving an amount of more than Rs 2.6 lakh, officials said on Tuesday.The accused is alleged to have demanded an undue advantage of Rs 3 lakh from the complainant in...

Kolkata, April 7 – The Congress party released its manifesto for the upcoming two-phase assembly elections in West Bengal later this month, prioritizing an alternative economic model to improve fiscal health, attract investment, and generate employment, rather than distributing handouts under...