Congress MLA from Ongole District Balineni Srinivasa Reddy, who belongs to YSRC camp was arrested today in Ongole when he raised protests for placing the portrait of former CM YSR at the Rachabanda programme in Ongole. There was a scuffle between MP Magunta and Balineni and the police swung into action and rounded up the [...]
Mumbai, April 13 (IANS) The interim report of a two-member commission probing the Adarsh Housing Society scam in Mumbai was submitted to the Maharashtra government Friday, official sources said. The report by the commission, comprising Justice (retd.) J.A. Patil and former state chief secretary P. Subrahmanyam, was submitted here in a sealed envelop to the chief [...]
Mumbai, April 12 (IANS) The interim report of the two-member commission probing the Adarsh Society scam, related to the housing society originally meant for war heroes and Kargil widows, is likely to be submitted to the Maharashtra government Friday, officials said. However, it was not clear when or whether it would be tabled before the state [...]
Hyderabad, March 18 (TMS): The West Zone Task Force team had received credible information that some persons are playing 3 cards gambling at Film Nagar Co-operative Housing society, Banjara Hills road No.2. Hyderabad and using the premises as common gaming house. The West Zone Task Force had conducted a raid and found the following [...]
Mumbai, March 21 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Wednesday arrested four more people, including two retired army officials, in connection with the Adarsh housing scam, officials said. “CBI has arrested four more accused named in the FIR in the Adarsh Society case, namely former MLC K.L. Gidwani, Maj. Gen. (Retd.) A.R. Kumar, the then [...]
New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) Army chief General V.K. Singh Monday dropped a bombshell by revealing that a retired lieutenant general had offered him a bribe of Rs.14 crore (Rs.140 million) for approving the supply of 600 sub-standard vehicles to the army. He also made it clear that he had brought the matter to the notice [...]
Ahmedabad/New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) A special panel probing the 2002 Gujarat riots Tuesday gave a clean chit to Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the Gulberg massacre case, leading the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to demand that the “vilification campaign” against him should stop and the Congress retorting that there was proof enough of the killings [...]
Mumbai, April 9 (IANS) Central Science and Technology Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has been named in another land scam with a fresh complaint lodged before the Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau, an activist said Monday. In a complaint filed by Simpreet Singh and other activists against Deshmukh and senior bureaucrats, it was alleged that they connived to grab land [...]
Locals at Kukatpally Housing Board (KPHB) Colony here today caught one Mohammed Ali from Kolkatta when he tried to circulate fake 500 rupee currency notes at a general stores. He was caught when more such currency was found in his possession and handed over the police while he accomplice fled the scene. Police were on [...]
Mumbai, March 12 (IANS) The Bombay High Court Monday rapped the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for not initiating action against government officials involved in the Adarsh housing society scam. “When there is preliminary evidence against certain government officers, why haven’t you written to the concerned departments seeking their removal,” asked the division bench of Justice [...]