NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday said that it has arrested eight persons, including the mastermind Sushil Ranjan for alleged malpractice in the NEET-UG 2022 examination conducted on Sunday. CBI spokesperson RC Joshi said, “The agency arrested eight persons including the mastermind from Delhi and Haryana.” The arrested persons included Sushil […]
NEW DELHI: A day after the opposition parties declared Margaret Alva as its Vice-Presidential candidate, several leaders of the opposition parties on Monday held a meeting at the residence of NCP chief Sharad Pawar here. The meeting at Pawar’s residence was attended by Alva, NCP leader Praful Patel, DMK leader Kanimojhi, Congress leaders Mallikarjun […]
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday said that it has busted a network of an inter-state gang with the arrest of three persons for illegal possession of wildlife material. The CBI also carried out searches at several locations and recovered 26 tiger or leopard claws CBI spokesperson RC Joshi said that […]
NEW DELHI: Even as polling for the Presidential election is underway, several Congress MLAs on Monday voted for NDA nominee Draupadi Murmu. Congress MLAs in Odisha, Jharkhand and several other states voted for Murmu, instead of opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha. Odisha Congress MLA Mohammad Moquim also voted for Murmu. He later said, “I am a […]
NEW DELHI: As voting took place today for India’s new President, opposition presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha on Monday dubbed the polling as “very important” and urged political parties to vote in his favour to save democracy and the Constitution. Speaking to the media, Sinha said, “This election is very important and will set the path […]
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), during its probe into the allegations of bribery against Joint Drugs Controller S Eswara Reddy, has found that the Bengaluru-based Biocon Biologics Limited used Guljit Sethi aka Guljit Chaudhary as a middlewoman to deliver bribe. Sethi is the director of Delhi-based Bioinnovat Research Private Limited. Besides Reddy, […]
NEW DELHI: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested four people, including a plant protection officer of the agriculture ministry and recovered Rs 1.86 crores during searches in an alleged bribery case, the agency said on Saturday. Along with Padam Singh, a plant protection officer in the directorate of plant protection, currently posted in Visakhapatnam, […]
NEW DELHI: Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party chief Shivpal Singh Yadav on Saturday attacked his nephew and Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh for supporting Yashwant Sinha for President’s post. In a statement, Shivpal, who was once a number 2 in the SP but lost the succession battle to Akhilesh, criticised the latter for supporting Sinha who once called […]
NEW DELHI: Congress party on Saturday dismissed Gujarat Police’s Special Investigation Team’s (SIT) claims that social activist Teesta Setalvad was part of a “larger conspiracy” carried out at the behest of late party leader Ahmed Patel to dismiss the Narendra Modi government in the state after the 2002 riots. In a statement, Congress general secretary […]
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday arrested two people, including a senior official of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and a representative of a private firm GHV (India) Private Ltd in connection with an alleged bribery case of Rs 10 lakh. A CBI official said that the agency sleuths […]