Corruption in the office of the Karnataka Lokayukta is a huge matter of debate today. Questions have been raised about the office on how it continued to book cases of corruption, especially when its own officers were corrupt.
Two Iranian men have been indicted by a grand jury in New York on charges they plotted to hire hit men from a Mexican drug cartel to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington using "weapons of mass destruction".
Modi, while addressing the 150th anniversary programme of Kolkata Port Trust, invoked Mookerjee and B R Ambedkar and said their contributions had led to the development of the country post Independence, but suggestions made by them were not implemented after they resigned from the government.
Tata group chairman Ratan Tata has blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party for many telecom flip flops that took place during its regime.
Pakistan is flushing Tamil Nadu amd Karnataka with counterfeit currency to fund terror activities in the country, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
Mexico fights back, says it will 'not pay for any wall'
Exasperated at repeated price rises by cement companies and complaining of a cartel by the latter, the Builders Association of India has announced a plan by its members to establish at least three factories to produce the key building material.
Section 45, which says no claim can be rejected after three years of a policy being in force, remains a bone of contention
Petrol prices were freed from government control last month, resulting in a Rs 3.50 per litre rate hike in Delhi.
Oil prices hit two-and-a-half-year highs in Asian trade on Friday as violence continued to wrack the Middle East and threatened to spread to other bigger oil producers in the region, analysts said.
Global supply is staying in excess of demand.
Hit by a massive sell-off in stocks of various group companies, Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group today said it is a victim of a bear cartel that has caused a market value loss of over Rs 3 lakh crore (Rs 3 trillion) across the infrastructure sector in the past two weeks.
Noting that the US energy dominance will be declared a strategic economic and foreign policy goal, Trump said America has 1.5 times as much oil as the combined proven resources of all OPEC countries
Before the tournament, top seed Djokovic declared the three should be favourites to win the Slams, and Federer agreed when asked after his Evans match.
Stone pelting in Kashmir valley appears to be fast turning into a lucrative 'business' for some unemployed youths offering this 'service' for a price.
Corruption has become as way of life across the world, costing global economies billions of dollars every year.
The Comptroller and Auditor General slammed the army for the poor quality of food items supplied to troops in Jammu and Kashmir and the northeast on Tuesday, noting that the rations had rotted in some cases.
An intense thriller that sheds light on the deadly war between powerful drug cartels and the police.
The statements made by witnesses in the Central Bureau of Investigation's chargesheet in the Scarlett Eden Keeling case has exposed the underbelly of drug cartel run in Goa through beach shacks. British teenager Scarlett Eden Keeling was found dead at Anjuna on February 18, 2008.
Though Bachchan did not take any names, her remarks come a day after BJP's Lok Sabha MP and Bhojpuri actor Ravi Kishan said there was problem of drug addiction in the film industry and also actor Kangana Ranaut's recent remarks calling Bollywood a 'gutter'.
An underworld don, who is languishing in a maximum-security British jail, has been using Facebook to run his drugs and organised crime empire and intimidate his enemies. Colin Gunn, one of the Britain's most dangerous gangsters, has been able to correspond freely with up to 565 'friends' on the social networking site for the past two months.Gunn, who is serving a 35-year sentence for conspiracy to murder, is said to be still running his drugs and organised crime cartel.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and others have been investigating whether Texas billionaire Allen Stanford was involved in laundering drug money for Mexico Gulf cartel, ABC News reported on Wednesday, citing federal authorities.
Mexican officials allowed cameras to glimpse inside the safe house where El Chapo was hiding before his arrest on January 8, 2016.
Given the escalating cost of doing business, the revenue opportunity is decreasing and consolidation is an inevitable part of the industry.
On the eve of the crucial Nuclear Suppliers Group meeting in Seoul over India and Pakistan's membership in the elite group, Pakistan's former permanent representative at the United Nations in Geneva Zamir Akram has said that Islamabad was only opposed to the "exclusive membership" of India.
Tottenham Hotspur's bid to break up the Premier League's big-four cartel suffered a hefty setback on Saturday when they lost 1-0 at home to Stoke City courtesy of an 86th-minute goal by Glenn Whelan.
Analysts forecast the fuel at $85 a barrel in 2015 and $90 a barrel in 2016; politics, demand-supply to pressure crude.
CCI is India's competition regulator. The undertaking will be a part of the CCI's proposed 'competition compliance' programme.
Admitting a report of MRTPC's investigative unit DGIR, a Bench of the quasi-judicial body, headed by Justice O P Dwivedi, issued 'notice of enquiry' and started judicial inquiry against these operators for cartelising and increasing prices of telecom services simultaneously. Admitting a report of MRTPC's investigative unit DGIR, a Bench of the quasi-judicial body, headed by Justice O P Dwivedi, issued 'notice of enquiry' and started judicial inquiry against these operators.
NRI owned pharma firm Goldshield shelled out 1 million pounds as it was accused of being a part of the cartel fro price fixing.
Several Ahmedabad-based stock brokers are playing a key role in arranging dummy investors. The 'investors' apply for their full quota of shares. After allotment, they transfer the shares to the accounts of the brokers fronting for the operators in exchange for a 2.5 per cent commission.
India has asked oil cartel Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to raise crude oil production to stem the relentless rise in international oil prices that have threatened to derail import dependent economies such as India.
Global crude oil prices slipped below $45 a barrel in early Asian trade on Monday after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries cartel decided not to cut production.
Gurupreet Kaur, who was a month shy of turning 7, was found dead by the US Border Patrol officials 27 kilometres west of Lukeville, Arizona, after her mother left her with other Indian migrants she was travelling with to go in search of water.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
After a day-long meeting on Thursday, delegates to the 45-member nuclear cartel expressed optimism over a consensus to end the country's three-decade long nuclear isolation by Friday. "We are close to a consensus. There may be a statement for the Press on Friday," a western diplomat, who refused to be identified either by name or country, said after the delegates considered a revised US draft waiver at the conclusion of 2nd session of the opening day of the two-day meeeting.
International crude prices, which rose to a historic high of over $147 a barrel in July last year, have slumped to four-year low of around $37 per barrel, prompting fears that companies may not invest in new fields. Several oil companies have put on hold investments in small and marginal fields and in difficult and frontier areas following the sharp dip in prices as current rates give a negative rate of return on the huge investments required.
Crude oil prices continued to retreat on Thursday, in spite of Opec announcing the largest supply cut in the cartel's history on Wednesday in its latest effort to stabilise the market.
Anil Ambani severely criticised the attitude of GSM operators and raised the issue of returning the extra spectrum again.
The Third OPEC Summit on its closing day on Sunday is likely to announce a fund, which will have contributions from energy consuming countries and oil producers, to provide technological support for reduction of the environmental impact of fuel use, OPEC officials said.
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