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Corruption
Mamata’s corruption-accused nephew vents his ire on Calcutta HC judge who has refused to toe the TMC line; will CJI protect his institution?
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Trinamool Congress' national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Friday accused Justice Rajasekhar Mantha of the Calcutta High Court, without taking his name, of giving...
Congress’ ex-Deputy CM O.P. Soni arrested in Punjab by Vigilance Bureau for corruption
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The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) on Sunday arrested former Deputy Chief Minister O.P. Soni for amassing assets disproportionately to his known sources of income...
Rot in bureaucracy: Drug official, others, booked in Amethi, UP for extortion from medical stores
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A drug inspector and some other personnel in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi have been booked for allegedly extorting money from medical stores, said police officials...
Excise policy case: ED attaches assets worth Rs 52 cr of Sisodia, his wife, others
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In a major move, the Enforcement Directorate said on Friday that it has attached assets worth Rs 52.24 crore belonging to arrested AAP leader...
JD (S) targets Cong govt in K’taka, dubs CMO office ‘Corruption Management Office’
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JD(S) on Wednesday launched a fresh attack on the ruling Congress in Karnataka by calling the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) the "Corruption Management Office".
It...
Chennai HC refuses to stay trial in corruption case against DMK minister Ponmudy
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The Madras High Court on Monday refused to stay proceedings in the case pending against Tamil Nadu Higher Education Minister K. Ponmudi.
The case was...
ED arrests DMK minister Senthil Balaji for money laundering; he immediately breaks down and ‘falls ill’
The Enforcement Directorate arrested Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji earlier today after 18 hours of interrogation in connection with a money laundering case.
The...
Stench of corruption, Karunanidhi’s tarred image and DMK’s fall from grace
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As the DMK patriarch, Muthuvel Karunanidhi had sworn time and again that he stood for equity and uplift of the downtrodden and poor.
That image...
BJP’s Karnataka disaster wasn’t just about corruption, it was also about state’s failure to stand up to Islamist terror
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"BJP’s Karnataka disaster wasn’t just about corruption, it was also about state’s failure to stand up to Islamist terror", Firstpost, May 22, 2023:
"The Karnataka...
Excise policy case: ‘Sisodia created WhatsApp a/c using PA’s SIM card’
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Former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister, Manish Sisodia, had allegedly created a WhatsApp account using a SIM card reportedly obtained in the name of his...