The Central Bureau of Investigation is likely to register a case against former Minister of State for Coal of the United Progressive Alliance-I government, Santosh Bagrodia, and on his kin, including his younger brother Satish, who has bagged the mining contract of the National Thermal Power Corporation block in Jharkhand.
The families had returned the gallantry medals they had received in honour of the slain personnel to the Rashtrapati Bhavan on December 13, 2006.
According to the police, overall, 1,818 people have been arrested so far in 400 cases in connection with the riots. They said 342 charge sheets have been filed by Delhi Police by the end of 2020, out of which the trial court has taken cognizance 250 cases.
NCP president Sharad Pawar on Friday reiterated that the Income Tax Department's raids on Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar's relatives and aides came after his comparison of the Lakhimpur Kheri violence in Uttar Pradesh to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre during the British rule.
The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed three bills to replace the colonial-era criminal laws by voice vote.
Gitanjali Datta of Maniabanda in Cuttack district had claimed that her husband Bijay Datta had died in the accident on June 2 and had even identified a body as her husband's.
On Tuesday, the Centre handed over the probe to the CBI on the recommendation of the Uttar Pradesh government. The state government has come under severe criticism for failing to provide security to the 19-year-old woman who was allegedly raped by the BJP MLA in 2017 when she was a minor.
Sisodia claimed that while the Assam government procured PPE kits for Rs 600 a piece from other companies, Sarma gave urgent supply orders to the firms of his wife and son's business partners for Rs 990 a piece "taking advantage of the COVID-19 emergency".
Amid mounting opposition pressure for his resignation over the death of a civil contractor, senior Karnataka Minister K S Eshwarappa on Wednesday ruled out stepping down from his post, as he wondered if a Whatsapp message can be treated as a 'death note'.
The statement said that towards ensuring financial stability for the family, Infosys takes into account the statutory payments to be made as per the company policy.
At least 36 people were killed and 19 injured when a bus carrying passengers skidded off the road and rolled down into a 300-foot gorge in Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district on Wednesday, officials said.
Mumbai police and Maharashtra ATS officials on Tuesday questioned the family members of terror suspect Jaan Mohammad Shaikh, arrested for allegedly being part of a Pakistan-organised module, and searched his home in Mumbai, police said.
In a novel way to pay tributes to the victims of the Mumbai terror attacks, Non-Governmental Organisation Swabhimaan Sanghathana, led by Maharashtra Industries Minister Narayan Rane's son Nitesh, on Saturday conducted a job fair for kin of the 26/11 victims and also ordinary Mumbaikars.
Stating that at least 16 people of different political parties have lost their lives in the post-poll violence in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party, saying unable to digest defeat in the state elections they were sending central ministers to incite unrest in Kolkata.
'Hamas terrorists are hiding in Gaza city inside tunnels, underneath houses and inside buildings populated with innocent Gaza civilians. Civilians of Gaza city evacuate south for your own safety and the safety of your families and distance yourself from Hamas terrorists who are using you as human shields'
Priyanka Maurya, was the face of the 'Ladki Hoon, Lad Sakti Hoon' campaign of Congress in Uttar Pradesh.
The family members of a 22-year-old man, who died in police custody in Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh, has rejected the police theory of suicide and demanded justice and strict punishment for those responsible for his death.
Tharman Shanmugaratnam, an Indian-origin Singapore-born economist, registered a landslide victory in Singapore's presidential election on Friday, winning over 70 per cent of votes in the country's first contested presidential polls since 2011.
The mishap happened when the Leader of opposition N Chandrababu Naidu was addressing a road show there.
Reacting to reports of a kin of President Pratibha Patil being in the race for a Congress ticket for assembly polls in Maharashtra, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday said her family members should refrain from doing so keeping democratic norms in mind.
Four people were killed and three injured when a chemical-laden tanker caught fire following an accident and exploded on Pune-Mumbai Expressway on Tuesday, the police said.
It was a special-purpose mobile gantry crane used in bridge construction and to install precast box girders in highway construction projects.
Mumbai has the richest Municipality in the country. And adding colour and spice to the civic polls that are to take place on February 16, are several elements from the under world. Interestingly, it is not the criminals themselves who are in the fray, but their kin. Rediff.com's Ganesh Nadar talks to some of them.
'We come from different parts of India, follow different religions. But when we come here we work together for India. It's so shameful when we see people indulging in such behaviour.'
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Tuesday visited the family of soldiers killed in the Pakistani terrorist attack at the air base in Pathankot.
The dead included three police inspectors and three home guards, the official said.
Raising doubts over an encounter by the Assam police, the National Human Rights Commission has recommended that the state government pay Rs 5 lakh as monetary relief to the next of kin of Rajib Basumatary, who was killed in Doimoguri in Sonitpur, Tezpur on June 23, 2010.
Such appointments on 'compassionate grounds' cannot be confined only to those employees who die in harness (serving), but can also be available to others provided it does not perpetuate hereditary appointments, or is discriminatory in nature, a bench of Justices R V Raveendran and L S Panta has held.
The apex court on July 28 granted bail to the two accused, noting that the actual involvement of Gonsalves and Ferreira in any terrorist act has not surfaced from any third-party communications.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah met the family members of 23-year-old woman Bhanurekha who died after drowning in the waterlogged underpass in the KR Circle area in Bengaluru.
The state government had announced an ex gratia of Rs 10 lakh to the next of kin of those killed in the firing.
Canadian police have named two of the eight people, including four Indians, whose bodies were found in a marshland area along the United States-Canada border, amid an investigation into the circumstances of their deaths.
Nearly seven years after they returned the gallantry medals protesting delay in hanging of Afzal Guru, family members of Parliament attack martyrs today said they were now ready to accept the honour.
"The minister told us that she would meet the CMs of the four states from where the Indians belonged to take a decision on possibility of providing a government job to the next of kin."
Antim Totla is a multi-millionaire businessman from Jalgaon, who is accused of acting in concert with stamp scam main accused Abdul Karim Telgi.
The Delhi government on Thhursday announced a compensation of Rs 4 lakh each to the next of kin of five National Cadet Corps from the city who drowned in the Periyar River in Kerala. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit condoled the death of the students.
The probe panel, constituted by Bihar's National Democratic Alliance government, on Tuesday confirmed that Union Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh's kin had engaged two child labourers for tilling an agricultural land at Shahpur village in Vaishali district on December 9. The finding dealt a severe blow to Singh's assertion that some TV channels had stage-managed the story.
The wife and brother-in-law of an NRI man, who had been found infected with the Omicron variant of COVID-19 here in Gujarat a week back, were also detected with the new strain, officials of the Jamnagar Municipal Corporation (JMC) said on Friday.
A team of BJP leaders visited over 15 families of the deceased in Raigad and Ratnagiri districts and offered jobs to the kin of the victims.
The accident occurred near Vesma village around 3.20 am when the bus was going towards Valsad, while the SUV was coming from the opposite direction, Navsari Superintendent of Police (SP) Rushikesh Upadhyay said.
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