NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday said that it carried out searches at three locations in Andhra Pradesh in connection with the encounter between CPI (Maoist) cadres and security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar last year. An NIA spokesperson here said that the agency sleuths carried out searches at three locations in Andhra […]
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday said that it has summoned Shiv Sena leader and Rajya Sabha Member Sanjay Raut for questioning on Wednesday in connection with its probe into the Patra Chawl land grab case. An ED official said that the agency has asked Raut to appear before it on Wednesday at […]
RANCHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday arrested Pankaj Mishra in connection with its money laundering probe in the Sahebganj tender scam case. A senior ED official related to the probe said that the agency arrested Mishra, MLA representative of Jharkhand CM, after questioning him for over eight hours. The arrest of Mishra comes days […]
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday arrested former Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey in connection with its money laundering case linked to the alleged illegal phone tapping of National Stock Exchange (NSE) employees, officials said. According to top ED officials, Pandey was arrested after his questioning today. Earlier in the day, Pandey appeared […]
NEW DELHI: Family members of former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on Tuesday requested the government to form a committee to investigate his death following sensational revelations that American intelligence agency Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had killed him. Their remarks came after the confessions of Robert Crowley, the second-in-command of the CIA’s Directorate of […]
NEW DELHI: Congress, along with other opposition parties, on Tuesday, staged a protest in Parliament over the issue of inflation. Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi along with several senior leaders of the party like Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, KC Venugopal, Ranjeet Ranjan and Manickam Tagore staged a protest near the Mahatma Gandhi statue in Parliament. The […]
NEW DELHI: Accompanied by senior leaders Sharad Pawar, Rahul Gandhi, and Mallikarjun Kharge, joint Opposition candidate Margaret Alva filed her nomination papers for the Vice-Presidential election on Tuesday. Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut, CPI (M) leader Sitaram Yechury, Rashtriya Janata Dal’s Manoj Jha and Samajwadi Party’s Ramgopal Verma, MDMK’s Vaiko, CPI’s D Raja were […]
NEW DELHI: Congress on Tuesday said that it would oppose in the Parliament the amendment bill to pave the way for privatisation of two public sector banks. The Central government plans a bill to make amendments to the Banking Laws Amendment Bill, 2021 to facilitate the privatisation of two government-run banks. However, the government […]
NEW DELHI: Congress on Monday hit out at the government accusing it of “benefitting” its “friends” by making the blending of imported coal mandatory for domestic power producers. Speaking to media outside Parliament, Congress spokesperson Gourav Vallabh alleged that the BJP government at the centre devised this model to benefit “friends” and this will lead […]
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday carried out searches at the premises of former Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president Narinder Batra at five locations in Delhi and Jammu, officials said. The searches were conducted after filing an FIR against him in an alleged corruption case, they said. CBI spokesperson RC Joshi […]