Nitish thought that his stakes as chief minister were far greater than his stakes in protecting one of his party MLAs. He could not allow his rule-of-law train to be derailed by a small rock on the track. On the contrary, if he removed it to keep the train moving at a steady speed he would gain strong public admiration and sympathy that would help him take the masses along in carrying out other tasks. A fascinating excerpt from Arun Sinha's Nitish Kumar And The Rise Of Bihar.
It is the first time in last the 10 years that no new CBI chief has been named to succeed an incumbent.
Rajasthan Director General of Police Omendra Bhardwaj, who made it to the final shortlist of 3 candidates for the post of CBI chief, could not get the top post because he had no experience as an investigator.
'He is not a person to challenge the government.' 'He is a man who is known to go with the flow' Aditi Phadnis reports.
On January 1, Anil Sinha, the new Director of the Central Investigation Bureau, gave a 40-minute "inspirational" speech to all his officials, setting the direction for the next two years of his tenure.
The petition alleged that the Centre took a series of steps in a 'completely mala fide, arbitrary and illegal manner to ensure that Asthana was given the charge of CBI director'.
Shahnawaz's security has been beefed up.
His name was cleared by a three-member selection panel headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and comprising Chief Justice of India Jagdish Singh Khehar and Congress leader in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge as members.
The Mumbai conference has been planned as a follow-up event of the UN World Conference on Disaster Reduction, which also called for different stakeholders in disaster management, including the corporate sector.
IFC, the private lending arm of the World Bank, today said it would annually invest around $500 million in India "over the coming years" in sectors like manufacturing and infrastructure, apart from widening its advisory services.\n\n
Delhi's power circles can expect a surprise when a not-so-known officer is appointed to head the CBI.
When contacted whether Letters Rogatory have been sent, CBI sources said "it is in the process".
Additional Director R K Dutta will now head the CBI probe in the 2G spectrum scam after the Supreme Court directed the agency Chief Ranjit Sinha to recuse from the investigation.
He noted that the agency has already submitted a chargesheet in the alleged fake encounter case of Ishrat Jahan.
The association also wondered how the brand value of Kingfisher was considered as a collateral while sanctioning a loan, and alleged that even when RBI knew that this was a "deliberate default", no action was taken by the banks.
Gullible investors get trapped in ponzi schemes because of their own "greed", CBI chief Anil Sinha said on Saturday on the scam in which an estimated 25 lakh people have lost deposits in West Bengal and Odisha alone.
'I was at a very senior position in the CBI and what happens is, hints are dropped for you to act upon. But then it depends upon your conscience, to do it or otherwise.' 'I know the rank and file of the CBI, they will bounce back; it is the leadership which has failed.'
The government didn't call a meeting of the selection committee deliberately to facilitate the appointment of a junior officer to the post, the committee's Congress member told the PM.
Union Rural Development Secretary L C Goyal is tipped to take over the post
The investigative agency has been asked to file its report to the apex court on July 24.
Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati targeted the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government over the Central Bureau of Investigation's decision to question her on the multi-crore National Rural Health Mission scam, claiming she had no connection with it and that the Centre was misusing the agency ahead of Bihar elections for political gains.
The petition has alleged that the Centre took a series of steps in a "completely mala fide, arbitrary and illegal manner to ensure that Asthana was given the charge of CBI director".
In a setback to the Bharatiya Janata Party which dominated the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, the party managed to win only from three seats while the Aam Aadmi Party made its debut by winning five seats and the Congress wrested four seats in the bypolls to 13 wards.
Chhota Rajan, one of India's most wanted gangster, has been arrested in the tourist town of Bali, Indonesia on a Red Corner Notice issued by Interpol after eluding law enforcement agencies for over two decades.
The overall pass percentage was 83.01 per cent as against last year's 82.02 per cent.
'To identify with the common man, Modi had to look like one.' 'The disastrous suit with his name written on it never made its reappearance.' 'Frequent dress changes during the day, which led Arvind Kejriwal to calculate that Modi spent crores on his attire ever year, too stopped.' 'Instead, a newer Modi emerged: Humble and eager to serve.' Narendra Modi has cleverly repositioned himself as a man of the masses in the past three years, says Aditi Phadnis.
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