An internal inquiry will be conducted by the CBI to probe how the report of the raid conducted on railway board member Mahesh Kumar's residence was leaked out. As a result of this information leak, sources say that Kumar managed to move his assets and document...
Even as the government is under fire to sack Union railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal over the bribery scandal, the CBI says fresh evidence of Bansal-Singhla links have emerged. Even though the investigating agency say there is no direct evidence against the ...
After the Supreme Court's scathing observation on the conduct of the law minister as well as the officials in Prime Minister's office over the coal scam probe, the Opposition and the Left have united in their demand for the resignation of Ashwani Kumar. Now, t...
The UPA tried to get its food security bill passed in the Lok Sabha, but the BJP is in no mood to relent. According to the BJP, it will not allow any bill to be passed, unless Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal and Law Minister Ashwani Kumar resign over the b...
In the wake of the coal scam probe report scandal, the Congress-led central government has been facing the flak as the Opposition demands nothing less than the resignation of the Prime Minister, the law minister and also senior law officials, saying that Ashwa...
In a major embarrassment to the UPA government, the CBI filed its second affidavit in the Supreme Court, which gives details of the alterations that were made on the insistence of the Prime Minister's Office, the Law Minister and senior legal officers.
The Opposition is all set to meet President Pranab Mukherjee, demanding a fresh investigation into the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The party demands a Supreme Court monitored special investigation team probe into the riots.
In its second affidavit, the CBI has claimed that its probe report was vetted by Law Minister Ashwani Kumar and the Prime Minister's Office, among others. The, Centre, however has maintained a stoic silence on the issue as the fate of its Minister hangs in the...
Even after a year since Revolutionary Marxist Party founder TP Chandrasekharan was murdered, the CPI(M) hasn't released its inquiry report into the case. According to former CPI(M) leader Appukuttan Vallikunnu says that Prakash Karat is betraying people by not...
The BJP has rejected Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran's arguments after he came out in the media, trying to distance the government from Law Minister Ashwani Kumar, clearly passing the buck to the CBI in coal scam cover-up.
Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, who met with the family members of Sarabjit Singh who was killed in Pakistan, says that the government has asked Pakistan to conduct an independent probe into the murder of Sarabjit Singh.
Law Minister Ashwani Kumar, who is under intense pressure after the Supreme Court's observations on Centre's vetting of CBI report on coalgate, has kept mum over whether he will resign from the post.
Senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan addresses the media on SC observations on the coalgate scam. The Supreme Court slammed the government saying that vetting CBI's report on coal block allocation was a massive breach of trust.
An ugly war of words has broken out between two of country's top legal officials. Additional Solicitor General Harin Rawal has written an angry letter to Attorney General GE Vahanvati for making him a 'scapegoat' in the coal allocation issue. He has accused Va...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who has been under fire for her inaction in the multi-crore chit fund scam run by Saradha group, is all set to table a new bill in the state Assembly to protect investors from sham companies. However, the Left partie...
Union Minister of State in the PMO V Narayanaswamy denies any interference in the CBI probe into Coalgate. CBI has submitted an affidavit on the coal block allocation in the Supreme Court today.
The Supreme Court rules that the Italian marines case will be probed only by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The court also ruled that the trial in the special court will happen on a daily basis as soon as the chargesheet is filed. The two Italian mar...
The Supreme Court has left the matter of probe into the Italian marines case in the Centre's hands, which means that it would be okay with the NIA taking up investigation.
The NIA is all set to probe the Italian marines case. The Italian government's plea has been dismissed. This comes as a result of the Supreme Court's ruling that the Centre will have the final say in who will investigate the marines case.
The controversies surrounding the Saradha Group in West Bengal comes to the notice of Corporate Affairs Minister Sachin Pilot. According to sources, Pilot may order a probe into the functioning of several other chit fund companies in the state.
Saradha Group owner Sudipta Sen has been produced in court, which will now decide how many more days of custody needs to be awarded to this chit fund scamster. Sudipta has already confessed to his crime, naming several top TMC leaders who were also a part of t...
Congress leader Deepa Dasmunshi, and a long-term rival of Mamata Banerjee, uses the opportunity to criticise the functioning of her government in West Bengal. Dasmunshi said that a CBI probe should be ordered into the chit fund scam to ensure that such large s...
Corporate Affairs Minister Sachin Pilot plans to hold a meet with senior officials of the Ministry to decide on issuing a probe. This probe would look into the functioning of several chit funds including the Saradha Group in West Bengal.
Ponzi scheme mastermind and Saradha group promoter Sudipta Sen is telling everything in custody. Sen, who was arrested along with two others in Sonemarg yesterday, claims of blackmail by Trinamool Congress MPs. In an 18-page confession letter to the CBI, Sen h...
First visuals of the Saradha group promoter Sudipta Sen, who along with two of his aides was arrested from Sonemarg in Jammu and Kashmir. Sen and the two others will be produced in a Kolkata court today.
Saradha Group has been able to dupe thousands of people of their life savings, but its has been found that this group's wealth is not just restricted to chit funds. The group's promoter, who is the swindler in the Indian ponzi scheme, has built the empire from...
West Bengal Ponzi Scheme | The police will bring back Saradha realty group promoter Sudipta Sen and his two aides, who were tracked down in a tourist resort in Sonemarg, Jammu and Kashmir, will be brought back to West Bengal today. The group has been accused o...
Angry over the leak of the JPC report, on the 2G spectrum allocation scam, to the media, the BJP has given a notice to move a breach of privilege motion in both Houses. BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad gave the notice in the Rajya Sabha and said that the leak sh...
Even as reports of a shootout at the MIT campus, in Cambridge near Boston, come in, online media suggests that one of the two suspects of Boston marathon bombings have been taken into custody. Reports say that a police officer was shot dead in the MIT campus s...
BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad reacts after the JPC probing the 2G spectrum allocation scam submits its draft report. He says that the draft report is not the final report and leaking it to the media is a 'gross breach of parliamentary norms'. The report...
The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probing the 2G spectrum allocation scam might have tabled its draft report, but when it comes to voting it faces a huge litmus test. The 30-member committee has only 12 from the UPA. Atleast 14 are expected to vote again...
The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probing the 2G spectrum allocation scam gives Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram a clean chit. The JPC rubbishing the Rs 1.76 crore loss calculation by the CAG, blamed A Raja of 'misleading'...
Following the withdrawal of Justice Vikramjit Sen from hearing the petitions by Bharti group chairman Sunil Mittal and Essar promoter Ravi Ruia, Justice AR Dave also follows. Now, this bench headed by the CJI has been forced to postpone the hearing.
The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probing the 2G spectrum allocation scam gives Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram a clean chit. The JPC rubbishing the Rs 1.76 crore loss calculation by the CAG, blamed A Raja of 'misleading'...
The draft prepared by the 2G Joint Parliamentary Committee gives a clean chit to the government on allegations of 1.76 lakh crore loss by the Comptroller Auditor General. The report questioned the role of the CAG in examining policy decision. It says that the ...
At press conference, the Bangalore Police DGP LR Pachau and Commissioner RH Auradkar confirm that it was a terror attack. While they don't confirm whether or not the police have traced the owner of the motorcycle used to plant the bomb at the site, they say am...
Investigating officer and Superintendent of CBI, AG Kaul, has testified in a Ghaziabad court and said that no one could have killed Aarushi Talwar and Hemraj, implicating Aarushi's parents, Nupur and Rajesh Talwar. The CBI officer was deposing in the special c...
In the wake of the allegations that Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar interfered with the CBI report into coal scam, Opposition has questioned the autonomy of CBI and has demanded an SIT probe. Meanwhile, reports reveal that CBI is gearing up to file an affidav...
There is fresh controversy in the coal block allocation scam as a media report has brought fresh embarrassment for the UPA government. A media report shows that the law ministry, under the UPA government, vetted the coal scam probe status report before its sub...
The UPA government is facing major embarrassment over the allegations that the law minister and officials in the Prime Minister's Office had reviewed and altered the probe status report submitted by the CBI to the Supreme Court, about the coal block allocation...
The law ministry is now in a huddle after reports came out how law minister Ashwani Kumar forced the CBI director Ranjit Sinha to water down the coal scam probe report. Attorney General GE Vahanvati meets with the law minister, who refuses to respond to any me...
Hitting back at BJP's accusations about the government trying to influence the CBI, Congress leader Rashid Alvi says that the investigating agency has always functioned independently and there has been no outside influence by the central government. Alvi was r...
Congress leader Rashid Alvi, speaking out about the latest revelation that the UPA government had vetted the coal scam investigation status report before it was submitted in the Supreme Court, says the CBI has always functioned independently and there has been...
Training his guns on the UPA government, BJP's leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley says that the government is trying to save Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. According to a media report, the UPA government had vetted the coal scam investig...
The BJP has hit out at former union minister Jagdish Tytler who was involved in the 1984 Sikh riots, as the Congress leader questioned the credibility of eyewitnesses. BJP says that the CBI has been repeatedly misused and no cases were filed against Congress l...
The chairman of Sahara Group, Subrata Roy, and three executives of his companies have been summoned by market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) in the thousand crore investment refunds case. The market regulator is acting on a Supreme Cou...
Sources say that the CBI is likely to send a notice to Raja Bhaiya to question him in connection with their investigations into the Kunda triple murder case.
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has rejected the demand for a CBI probe on SFI activist Sudipta Gupta's death and has given a clean chit to her state's police. She confidently says that even the postmortem report will recognise that Sudipta's death was an accid...
Uttar Pradesh government accepts CBI's request to transfer five policemen from Pratapgarh, in connection with the bureau's investigation into the Kunda triple murder case. The CBI team had felt that the police officers were not cooperating with the investigati...
The Tamil Nadu film fraternity, including superstar Rajinikanth, went on a daylong hunger strike to protest against alleged war crimes against Tamils in Sri Lanka.
The men accused in the murder of businessman and politician Deepak Bhardwaj have named one Guruswamy, who they claim is the mastermind in the crime. Bhardwaj was shot dead at his farmhouse in south Delhi last month.
Information and broadcasting minister Manish Tewari, reacting to Yashwant Sinha's demand that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should depose in front of the Joint Parliamentary Committee in the 2G spectrum allocation scam, says that it would be more appropriate i...
The Pakistan foreign office has refused to conduct a joint probe into Indian farmer Chamel Singh's death. Pakistan tried to justify its stand by saying that India didn't join the postmortem and refused the autopsy report. The political parties in Jammu and Kas...
A petition demanding a CBI probe, has been filed in the Deepak Bhardwaj murder case, in the Delhi High Court. The realty tycoon and BSP leader was murdered by unidentified men in his farmhouse last week. The police are questioning the kin to obtain clues regar...
The Ministry of Home affairs has handed over the case of the killing of Indian fishermen allegedly by Italian marines to the National Investigation Agency.
The fact-finding team which has been empanelled to find out the sequence of events when Assistant Sub-Inspector Sachin Suryavanshi was assaulted by a group of Maharashtra MLAs seems to be making a concerted effort to implicate the injured officer. According to...
Rajasthan's Kishore Jogi had gone to the police to lodge a complaint on a missing tractor, was taken into custody, and 48 hours later was found dead. The family has accused the cops of torture and have been on a dharna for five days.
Oman Abdullah has punched holes in Delhi police's version on Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terror suspect Liyaqat Ali Shah, even as Union Home Ministry has ordered a probe into the case on the Chief Minister's demand.
In an unfortunate incident in Mumbai, one person lost his life and eight others have been injured when some residents threw water balloons at a local train. The incident occurred when the train passed by a settlement and some residents threw balloons filled wi...
With the growing uproar over Hizbul member and suspected terrorist Liyaqat Ali Shah's arrest, the Delhi police sources say that they are ready to explain to the NIA as to why he was arrested. The Delhi police is ready to join the NIA investigation and answer q...
Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah slams the Delhi police for arresting suspected terrorist and Hizbul member Liyaqat Ali Shah. He has asked the Delhi police that if Liyaqat was coming to attack Delhi, would he come with his family? Omar says that he doesn't w...
Minister of New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah says that the Jammu and Kashmir government has taken up the matter of Hizbul member and suspected terrorist Liyaqat Ali Shah's arrest with the Centre and that the Union Minister has ordered an investigation....
Defence Minister AK Antony confirms that there has been discrepancies in the AgustaWestland deal. He promises to initiate strict action against those who will be found guilty after the CBI probe into the scam.
PDP has blamed both Jammu and Kashmir government and the centre for the arrest of Syed Liaquat Shah. The party is now gearing up to corner the state government over the issue in the Assembly. Meanwhile J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has met Home Minister Sus...
In news are Bollywood actors Sanjay Dutt, Salman Khan and Saif Ali Khan – all for their legal troubles, as Salman and Saif are all set to appear in a Jodhpur court for a hearing in the blackbuck poaching case. Subramaniam Swamy, leader of Janata Dal, says Sa...
New evidence in form of CCTV camera footage unmasks two suspected terrorists who are seen carrying explosives on their cycles minutes before the blast. So far, the investigating agencies have been coming up short to find any clue to identify the terrorists as ...
Various political parties in Tamil Nadu are planning to stage protests across the state over the alleged Sri Lankan war crimes against the Tamils. Apart from political parties, students and professionals too are staging protests in various parts of the state, ...
Politicians, students and professionals join together to stage protests across Tamil Nadu over the alleged Sri Lankan war crimes against Tamils. The protesters demand an independent international probe into the war crimes committed by Sri Lanka.
External affairs minister Salman Khurshid, in a last-ditch attempt to appease key ally DMK, says that the government will ask for an independent probe into the alleged human rights violations in Sri Lanka. The DMK has been threatening to pull out of the govern...
In a significantly watered down version of a resolution on Sri Lanka for alleged war crimes, the United States has now called for an internal probe and not international inquiry into the reports. In the third amended draft of the UN resolution against Sri Lank...
Self-proclaimed spiritual guru Asaram Bapu comes under fire for wasting thousands of liters of water for pre-Holi celebrations at Nagpur's Kasturchand Park. Maharashtra government has assured a fair probe into this criminal wastage of water when the state is r...
The CBI has filed an FIR in the choppergate scam. Sources claim that the FIR mentions cash trail, linking the Tyagis. Sources also claim that the Tyagi cousins were paid Rs 2.28 crore in two remittances for the chopper deal. The first instalment of Rs 1,26,000...
A case has been filed against former Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi and 12 others in the VVIP chopper scam. The CBI has registered the case after carrying out searches in Delhi, NCR and Chandigarh. The case has been registered under Sec 120 and 420 of the Indian P...
The Supreme Court slams Punjab government's magisterial probe into the Tarn Taran incident saying that it does not accord any respect to the inquiry. Pulling up the state government, the apex court says that if the Punjab government was sincere enough, action ...
Delhi gangrape prime accused Ram Singh committed suicide in his cell and the jail authorities only came to know about the incident at 5 AM. The body has been sent for post mortem and the crime team is currently at Tihar jail to collect evidence and recreate th...
Ram Singh, one of the accused in the infamous Delhi gangrape, has committed suicide by hanging himself inside Tihar Jail, where was lodged. A magisterial probe has been ordered into the suicide. Ministry of Home Affairs has demanded a report into the suicide o...
Ministry of Home Affairs demands a report from the DG of Tihar into the suicide of Delhi gangrape prime accused Ram Singh. A magisterial probe has been ordered into the suicide. Meanwhile social activists are demanding immediate response from the jail authorit...
The prime accused in the Delhi gangrape case, Ram Singh, commits suicide in his cell at Tihar jail today morning. Questions regarding the suicide have begun to do the rounds. Ram Singh's lawyer said that his client was not in a frame of mind that would push hi...
The Home Ministry demands a detailed report into the suicide of the Delhi gangrape prime accused, Ram Singh. The Home Ministry has asked for the report to be submitted with 24 hours with all the details. The Ministry also wants to know as to how, despite instr...
The prime accused in the Damini gangrape case, Ram Singh commits suicide in his cell at Tihar jail. It is been alleged that Ram Singh was going through depression. Reports of ill-treatment at the hands of fellow inmates were also reported. When the five accuse...
A team from the CBI has reached Kunda district in Uttar Pradesh to begin their investigation into the murder of DSP Zia-ul-Haq. The CBI said that it needs to collect enough evidence to arrest Raja Bhaiya. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said that C...
Prime accused in the DSP Zia-ul-Haq murder case, Raja Bhaiya will be presented in front of the CBI and questioned regarding his role in the murder and the various FIRs registered against him by DSP's widow.
After the UNHRC indicts Sri Lanka over the killing of ethnic Tamils in the island country, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader Kannimozhi says that the Indian government should initiate an independent inquiry into the report.
DMK MP TR Baalu brings up the issue of Lankan war crimes against ethnic Tamils in Parliament today. According to Baalu, the government should pass a resolution to ensure action against those responsible for the atrocities against Tamils. He says those who are ...
Even as the Opposition mounts pressure on Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, the increasing agitation in the valley has forced the Indian Army to order an inquiry into the killing of a youth in Baramullah. In the J&K Assembly, opposition party PDP...
According to sources, an operative of the ISI managed to breach several layers of secured line to access information gathered by the National Security Guards on the Hyderabad twin blasts. Reports suggest that ISI's snooping was to gather information so as to p...
The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav, has ordered a CBI probe into the killing of deputy SP, Zia Ul Haq. According to sources, Akhilesh Yadav made this announcement under pressure and also after sensing the public resentment towards his governme...
Opposition party members in the Rajya Sabha question government's inaction and police lethargy in the investigation of the rape and murder of three minors in Bhandara, Maharashtra. Vir Singh and Smriti Irani are particularly short with the Home Minister and de...
Newshour | Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath explains why the JPC on the AgustaWestland chopper scam is not just a political tactic. The Opposition had earlier accused the government of creating a diversionary tactic and Arun Jaitely had even cal...
Debate over the alleged war crimes by Sri Lanka rocks Rajya Sabha with AIADMK MPs demanding an independent probe into the alleged atrocities by Sri Lankan Army. CPI MP D Raja demands the government to take a fresh look at its policy to Sri Lanka.
Parliament is likely to witness dramatic scenes as the AgustaWestland defence deal will be discussed in Rajya Sabha. BJP rejects government's offer for a JPC-led probe into the scam, saying that such a probe is meaningless. Meanwhile, CPI leader D Raja says th...
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath says that the government is ready for any sort of probe into the AgustaWestland scam even though the government favours a JPC monitored probe. He says that the decision regarding the probe will be taken in the floor of...
The Navy has issued a clarification and has said that there is no deal on large calibre gun yet and that a single vendor situation will not be allowed. It has been revealed that Haschke could have been pitching for a range of OTO Melara products and that OTO M...
Sources claim that the CBI will be questioning the suspects who were mentioned in the preliminary enquiry of the AgustaWestland deal. The FIR will be registered only if the CBI gets evidence of the bribe money trial.
The party-level probe into the murder of TP Chandrasekharan is almost over according to CPI(M) politburo member S Ramachandran Pillai. However, SRP has made it clear that the details of the probe cannot be made public. It has been alleged that the CPI(M) kille...
The Central Bureau of Investigation, probing the controversial VVIP chopper deal, names former Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi as one of the suspects in the scam. The CBI has named ten persons including three relatives of SP Tyagi, in a preliminary investigation re...
AgustaWestland has responded to the show cause notice that was issued by the Indian Ministry of Defence. It has expressed its inability to provide effective response, denied any breach of integrity pact and has said that the allegations made by the MoD are 'ge...
The CBI has now registered a preliminary enquiry in the AgustaWestland deal. It is just the first step in the investigation, registered prior to the FIR. The CBI would be conducting a thorough investigation and then decide whether an FIR is necessary or not. T...
The Ministry of Defence has withdrawn the delegation from Italy, which had been sent to investigate the chopper scam. The CBI team will be returning to India tomorrow. Finmeccanica is likely to reply to the show-cause notice, that was sent by the defence minis...