Chief selector Chetan Sharma on Tuesday opened a can of worms during a sting operation conducted by a TV channel as he revealed how Jasprit Bumrah wanted to play for the Indian team despite struggling with an injury last year.
The way the Bahraich riot has played out should worry the BJP. The party has emboldened Hindu youngsters to such an extent that its MLAs feel the need to go to the police against their party members. Is this what the BJP wants, asks Jyoti Punwani.
The Narada sting tapes, made public before the 2016 assembly elections in West Bengal, were claimed to have been shot in 2014, wherein people resembling TMC ministers, MPs and MLAs were allegedly seen receiving money from representatives of a fictitious company in lieu of promised favours.
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The Congress on Tuesday demanded the resignation of Narendra Modi, in the wake of a sting operation, which claims that it has "exposed" a plan by senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders to save the Gujarat chief minister's key aide Amit Shah in the Tulsi Prajapati fake encounter case.
She said the Opposition has formed a "nexus" to malign the Trinamool Congress ahead of the state assembly election.
The aim of the department is to check suspected tax evasion by the banking institutions and possible loss of revenue by illegal acts done by authorised individuals.
The division bench said it deemed it appropriate to stay the special court's order and direct that the "accused person shall be treated to be in judicial custody till further orders".
The VBL board approved the purchase of SBC Tanzania for Rs 1,304 crore and SBC Beverages Ghana for Rs 127 crore. These own manufacturing/distribution rights for NARTD (PepsiCo branded) beverages in Tanzania and Ghana. The acquisitions will help VBL gain ground in East and West Africa.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Prakash Javadekar has apparently admitted his presence at a meeting shown in a sting operation in connection with the Tulsi Prajapati encounter case.
Bengal ministers Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee were taken to the Central Bureau of Investigation office on Monday in connection with the Narada sting operation, officials said.
Mirza was produced before a special CBI court in Kolkata, which remanded him in the central probe agency's custody till September 30.
India's chairman of selectors Chetan Sharma disclosed that the country's top cricketers are taking injections so that they are able to play despite not being fully fit.
Rubbishing the allegations, the Uttarakhand CM said that the CD presented was totally fake, adding that efforts were being made to tarnish the image of the Congress-led state government.
It's important to note that most of the celebrities who were approached are yesteryear stars, over the hill and seemingly forgotten.
The sting operation had implied that Khurana was involved in the flesh trade and she forced young students to accompany her clients.
The Trinamool Congress on Monday wrote to Kolkata Police Commissioner Soumen Mitra seeking 'necessary action' under the law against the Central Bureau of Investigaton officials who arrested three senior party leaders 'illegally'.
There is startling accuracy to Dibakar Banerjee's portrayal, notes Sukanya Verma.
Delhi Police has suspended several of its personnel after they were shown accepting bribes in a sting operation by a television news channel.
The body of 33-year-old soldier from Kerala was recovered near his camp in Deolali Cantonment, Maharashtra.
Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra and former party leader Sovan Chatterjee, who were arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the Narada sting case, were admitted to a hospital in Kolkata early on Tuesday after their health condition deteriorated in a correctional home, an official said.
The BCCI on Monday invited applications to replace one among the five senior national selectors and in all likelihood, former pacer Salil Ankola would be the one on his way out as West Zone is already represented by chairman Ajit Agarkar.
The ICC said it is investigating but also stated that the channel has not cooperated in the matter.
Citizen sleuths need a variety of secret gizmos to carry out the sting operations recommends Arvind Kejriwal.
Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil has ordered the suspension of 32 policemen after an activist caught them on camera while allegedly accepting bribes to turn a blind eye to an illegal structure. The policemen are from the Nehru Nagar police station in suburban Kurla.
The country's three largest private banks -- ICICI bank, HDFC Bank and Axis Bank -- were last week accused of indulging in money laundering both within and outside with an online portal, Cobrapost, claiming that the sting operation conducted by it had revealed a scam.
RBI deputy governor, K C Chakrabarty had also said that there was no money laundering involved as alleged by the Cobrapost.
ICC CEO Dave Richardson says that cricket's world governing body is facing a "war" against corruption right now in which "everybody is susceptible", including the curators and the groundsmen.
Financial Intelligence Unit will also provide information in this regard to the Income Tax department.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday accused the Centre of pursuing vindictive politics and using central agencies like the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement Directorate to terrorise people in the non Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states.
A television 'sting operation' may have cast doubts over the credibility of the Indian Premier League, but Delhi Daredevils batsman Mahela Jayawardene insisted that the team's focus has not changed despite the spot-fixing allegations on some players.
The sting operation carried out 'Cobrapost' giving details of alleged conspiracy by right-wing organisations to bring down Babri Masjid in 1992 has no evidentiary value for the Central Bureau of Investigation as it has already completed the investigation.
Tainted cricketers Mohnish Mishra and Taduri Sudhindra banned by the BCCI after being caught in a sting operation were predictably not allowed to take part in a domestic T20 tournament starting from Tuesday, by the Indore Division Cricket Association (IDCA).
Police later let the legislators off after a brief detention at a marriage hall. Stalin demanded the dismissal of the AIADMK government over the issue of the alleged pay-offs.
The report once again raised questions about data protection laws in India and demands that the UK companies bring back call centres to Britain.
Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal on Monday urged the Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath to issue clear guidelines to organisations conducting opinion polls as well as the media for ensuring their authenticity so that those indulging in "frivolous activities" do not get away easily.
Expressing concern over agitation by Trinamool Congress workers outside the Central Bureau of Investigation office in Kolkata and elsewhere in West Bengal after the arrest of two ministers and others in the Narada sting case, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday alleged that there is 'total lawlessness and anarchy' in the state and the police and administration are in 'silence' mode.
Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa assured the state police on Friday to initiate appropriate action against Sri Ram Sene chief patron Pramod Muthalik, who was caught by rent-a-riot sting operation.
Merely disowning the match-fixing allegations he made against his Pakistan teammates would not be enough for Yasir Hameed as the opener could be questioned by the ICC's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit for his statements in a tabloid sting operation.
A special court in Ahmedabad which acquitted all the 67 accused in the Naroda Gam post-Godhra riots case has criticised the probe conducted into it by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed by the Supreme Court, and said the evidence of the prosecution's witnesses was full of contradictions and could not be relied upon.
Suspended secretary of the disbanded Indian Hockey Federation K Jothikumaran on Friday filed a suit against the television channel, that did a sting operation on him, claiming damages of Rs 25 lakh.
