Ghazipur: A CBI team on Wednesday conducted searches at the district hospital in Ghazipur in connection with the National Rural Health Mission scam. The two-member team checked documents and also took custody of some papers, official sources said. This is the third CBI raid in the district in the past 20 days. A week ago the agency had taken into its possession documents and bank statements relating to the sale-purchase...
05:36 PM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: The Income Tax department has been trying to establish links between liquor baron Ponty Chadha and Uttar Pradesh's Orai-based mining mafia head Sukhdev Singh. Recently, Rs 1.5 crore were recovered from Sukhdev's office in raids conducted by the IT department. The I-T department also raided liquor baron Ponty Chadha's premises across Delhi and UP. Jewellery worth Rs 4 crore and Rs 50 lakh cash was seized. I-T officials...
07:52 AM, Feb 04, 2012
New Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi has said that the use of black money during the Assembly elections was a major cause for concern and the EC was trying its best to deal with it. In an interview with CNN-IBN, Quraishi spoke about the use of money power, liquor and drugs during elections and the EC's efforts to crack it. Rajdeep Sardesai: Mr Quraishi, we are seeing the assets...
09:55 PM, Jan 25, 2012
Beverly Hills: Martin Scorsese's Paris adventure 'Hugo' leads the Academy Awards with 11 nominations, among them best picture and the latest director slot for the Oscar-winning filmmaker. Also nominated for best picture Tuesday: the silent film 'The Artist'; the family drama 'The Descendants'; the Sept. 11 tale 'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close'; the Deep South drama 'The Help'; the romantic fantasy 'Midnight in Paris'; the sports tale 'Moneyball'; the family...
07:24 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Beverly Hills: Prospective Academy Awards nominees have pretty much every decade of the last century covered, from the World War I epic 'War Horse' through modern times with the family drama 'The Descendants'. In between at Tuesday morning's nominations are such contenders as the 1920s and `30s tales 'The Artist' and 'Hugo', the 1950s movie-making story 'My Week with Marilyn, the 1960s Deep South drama 'The Help', the 1970s Cold...
01:39 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Bhopal: "MP gajab hai'... You've heard that touristy catchphrase saying Madhya Pradesh is truly amazing! But the slogan acquires a new meaning in the light of startling revelations about corrupt government staffers who are turning out to have amassed unaccounted wealth worth crores of rupees. In 2011, the state anti-corruption wing unearthed assets running into crores from many government employees, from peons to clerks to engineers. The assets include cash,...
07:44 AM, Jan 21, 2012
In the show, Rajeev Masand talks about three films 'Tree of Life', 'Bridesmaids', and 'A Separation'. ...
12:42 PM, Jan 14, 2012
London: Legendary singer Elton John is all set to share his experiences of the global AIDS epidemic in his first book. John, 64, will write about losing friends - including Queen frontman Freddie Mercury - to the disease in his book 'Love Is The Cure: Ending The Global AIDS Epidemic', Daily Express reported. "Why are we not doing more? This is a question I have thought deeply about, and wish...
03:53 PM, Jan 10, 2012
New Delhi: Scam-tainted former BSP leader Babu Singh Kushwaha is unlikely to be arrested by the CBI in connection with the National Rural Health Mission scam for now, claim sources. He's believed to be cooperating with investigators. Kushwaha was raided by the CBI on Wednesday. The central investigating agency will be interrogating two former Director Generals of Health who were detained on Wednesday. The CBI has raided a total of...
09:33 AM, Jan 05, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP has clarified that sacked BSP minister Babu Singh Kushwaha will not get a poll ticket for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh elections after he was raided in connection with the NRHM scam. An embarrassed BJP claimed a Congress-BSP plot. "There is a deal between the BSP and the Congress. Rahul Gandhi and Digvijaya Singh are the leaders of the deal who are protecting the corrupt in the...
02:20 PM, Jan 04, 2012
Congress leader Pramod Tewari said that the CBI should investigate whether the BJP has benefited from the NRHM scam. ...
01:41 PM, Jan 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted raids at the premises of the TV channel Jan Sandesh in Lucknow in connection to the NRHM scam on Wednesday. Jan Sandesh is backed by the BSP. The raids were being conducted at 60 places in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh in connection with the scam. Earlier on Wednesday, the CBI also raided the residence of sacked BSP minister Babu Singh Kushwaha....
12:59 PM, Jan 04, 2012
New Delhi: 2011 was a year not just of landmark political revolutions but also of medical marvels. Be it HIV prevention or a vaccine for malaria, 2011 saw many medical breakthroughs. Here's a look at the top five: HIV treatment as prevention: It has been deemed as the most important scientific breakthrough of the year 2011. A study published in the journal Science this year, found that the same drugs...
08:45 AM, Dec 29, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan wants new rules of engagement with the US and an assurance of "no Abbottabad-like unilateral action in future", Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said. The prime minister was referring to the May 2 killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by US commandos who carried out the daring raid by swooping into Abbottabad town without informing Pakistan. Gilani on Wednesday said that Pakistan wanted new rules...
12:41 PM, Dec 22, 2011
New Delhi: A clerk in Madhya Pradesh has been accused of amassing assets disproportionate to his income. The police reportedly seized property papers worth Rs 40 crore from his residence. The clerk works at the regional transport office in Indore. Acting on a tip-off, EOW officials raided three residences of the clerk identified as Ramendra (Raman) Dhuldhoi and recovered details of properties worth over Rs 40 crore which is "hugely...
11:07 AM, Dec 19, 2011
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