corruption

Bhopal, March 22 – Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav removed Sidhi Collector Swarochit Somvanshi and Guna Superintendent of Police (SP) Ankit Soni with immediate effect on Sunday, while also ordering action against several other officials.SP Ankit Soni was removed following a...

Shimla, March 22 Himachal Pradesh Police on Sunday dismissed four CID personnel working with the special task force (STF) in Kullu from service and arrested them for allegedly being involved in drug trafficking, police said.The officers are accused of apprehending drug traffickers but were...

Bhopal, March 22 Four Madhya Pradesh police personnel have been suspended for allegedly accepting Rs 20 lakh as "bribe money" from a businessman based in Gujarat after discovering Rs 1 crore in his car, police said on Sunday.According to the police, the incident occurred on March 19 in the...

Chandigarh, March 22 Anti-incumbency is the accumulated bill of millions of small institutional failures – each too small to generate a headline, but collectively large enough to change a government.This is the central argument of a forthcoming book by former Haryana DGP O P Singh.In the...

Naypyidaw, March 21 – The central problem with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ongoing anti-corruption campaign is one that the Chinese Communist Party has consistently ignored – in a one-party system, corruption is not an exception but is deeply embedded in the system, a report said on Saturday...

Mumbai, March 21 – The opposition Congress and Shiv Sena (UBT) on Saturday said that NCP leader Rupali Chakankar's resignation as chairperson of the Maharashtra State Women's Commission was insufficient, given the escalating controversy surrounding her alleged links with a self-proclaimed...

New Delhi, March 21 – The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested an Assistant Engineer (AE) of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) in a bribery case, officials said on Saturday.The accused, identified as Hukam Singh Meena, was posted at the MCD’s Shahdara South Zone, QUC...

Aizawl, March 20 The president of the Mizoram Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC), Lal Thanzara, launched a strong attack on the ruling Zoram People's Movement (ZPM) on Friday, claiming that the public's high expectations for the government have turned into "widespread disappointment".Speaking...

New Delhi, March 20 The Supreme Court on Friday granted regular bail to Muppidi Avinash Reddy, a key accused in the multi-crore Andhra Pradesh liquor policy scam.The case involves alleged large-scale irregularities and a structured kickback network that operated between 2019 and 2024.A bench...

New Delhi, March 20 The Centre on Friday informed the Supreme Court that it had constituted an expert committee comprising two former apex court judges and a former Attorney General to review the Class 8 NCERT textbook, which includes a chapter on corruption in the judiciary.Solicitor General...

Jajpur (Odisha), March 19 A day after arresting a banker, Odisha vigilance officers arrested his father and mother along with another man on Thursday for allegedly embezzling government funds amounting to Rs 5.56 crore in the Jajpur district, officials said.The accused have been identified by...

Chennai, March 19 The DMK approached the Madras High Court on Thursday, seeking a directive to the Enforcement Directorate to register money laundering cases against former AIADMK state ministers and initiate a thorough investigation.The ruling party's Rajya Sabha MP, R Girirajan, has filed...

Lucknow, March 19 The Allahabad High Court has rejected the bail plea of an IRS officer, who was posted as the CGST deputy commissioner in Jhansi, in connection with a Goods and Services Tax (GST) bribery case involving an amount of Rs 1.5 crore.The Lucknow bench of the court passed the order...

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...

Lucknow, March 19 Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday alleged that the BJP is "misleading" the youth and has failed to provide them with jobs and employment opportunities.Addressing party workers and leaders who had gathered from various districts at the party's state...

New Delhi, March 19 The CBI has registered a case in connection with the alleged assault on a person during his questioning by Enforcement Directorate officers in the 'Peyjal' scam in Ranchi, Jharkhand, officials said on Thursday.The agency took over the case at the direction of the Ranchi...

Shimla, March 19 BJP legislators on Thursday protested against the "illegal" felling of trees in the Shallai area of Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur district, and said that more than 300 pine trees were cut under the administration's nose.BJP MLAs, holding placards with slogans like "Remove the...

Colombo, March 19 Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa received a bribe of 60 million Sri Lankan rupees, Kapila Chandrasena, the main accused in the 2017 Airbus case, told a court in Sri Lanka on Thursday.Chandrasena, the former CEO of the national carrier from 2011-15, was produced in the...

Kochi, March 19 The DSJP announced unconditional support to the NDA for the upcoming Kerala Assembly elections on Thursday.Describing itself as a secular party that prioritizes the interests of forward communities, the Democratic Social Justice Party (DSJP) leaders, in a press conference here...

New Delhi, March 18 The Enforcement Directorate (ED) said on Wednesday that it has filed a fresh chargesheet against more than a dozen retired and serving Jharkhand government engineers and officials in a money-laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in the state's rural development...