Thousands of Pashmina goats may have perished in recent heavy snowfall around the nomadic areas of Changthang on the Sino-Indian frontier of the Ladakh region, officials said on Friday. ...
12:50 PM, Feb 24, 2013
New Delhi: Relief for Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and JD-U leader Sivanand Tiwari as a special CBI court has rejected a petition seeking to indict the two in a Rs 950 crore fodder scam case, on grounds that there wasn't adequate proof of their involvement. Even earlier, the court had declined the petition but the petitioner got direction from the High Court for the case to be heard in a...
06:54 AM, Dec 13, 2012
Ranchi: A plea was filed on Friday in a special CBI court in Ranchi to make Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar an accused in three cases relating to the fodder scam. Kumar and JD(U) spokesman Shivanand Tiwari should be made accused, Mithilesh Kumar Singh said in his plea. Singh had earlier filed a similar application in the court, which was rejected as he was not a party in the case....
03:37 AM, Sep 08, 2012
New Delhi: Drought-hit states like Karnataka, Gujarat and Maharashtra are facing acute shortage of fodder and have petitioned the Centre to urgently address the issue as it could affect dairy industry. The chief ministers of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Gujarat - the worst drought-affected states - have also asked the Centre to bear at least 75 per cent cost of the agriculture loan they are waiving in the states to rescue...
09:12 AM, Aug 05, 2012
Ranchi: The Jharkhand High Court on Monday directed for a day-to-day hearing in the fodder scam cases. Pulling up the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for the tardy pace of hearing on important fodder scam cases, the division bench of Chief Justice Prakash Chandra Tatia and Justice Jaya Roy issued the directions for the day-to-day hearing. The CBI, which placed a status report of the multi-crore fodder scam before the...
11:14 PM, Jul 30, 2012
Ranchi: A CBI court in Ranchi on Monday awarded four to seven years imprisonment to 40 persons convicted in a fodder scam case and also slapped fines ranging from Rs 25,000 to Rs 2 crore. The CBI court had pronounced judgement in RC 31 A/96 May 3, which is related to the fraudulent withdrawal of more than Rs 47 crore from the Doranda treasury of Ranchi in the early 1990s....
03:52 PM, May 07, 2012
Ranchi: A CBI court on Thursday convicted 69 people and acquitted 16 in the multi-crore fodder scam. Twenty-nine people have been sentenced to one to three years imprisonment and fined between Rs 25,000 and Rs 2 lakh. The quantum of sentence against the others will be pronounced on May 7. The court announced its judgement on case RC 31 A/96 relating to the fraudulent withdrawal of over Rs 45 crore...
03:11 PM, May 03, 2012
Patna: A designated CBI court on Monday began the trial in the multi-crore fodder scam against 33 accused including former Chief Ministers Lalu Prasad and Jagannath Mishra in Patna. As the trial began before judge BK Srivastava, CBI produced two witnesses Prithvi Raj Gaud and Mahesh Prasad who had sanctioned and issued permission letters for prosecution of some of the accused in fodder scam cases related to withdrawal of crores...
09:40 PM, Apr 02, 2012
Patna: A CBI court on Thursday framed charges against former Bihar chief ministers Lalu Prasad and Jagannath Mishra and ruling JDU MP Jagdish Sharma in connection with the multi-crore fodder scam. Charges were also framed against former RJD MP RK Rana in connection with the case. Designated CBI Judge V K Srivastava framed the charges against them in the case relating to fraudulent withdrawals of around Rs 46 lakh by...
12:44 PM, Mar 01, 2012
Ranchi: Two former Bihar chief ministers, Lalu Prasad and Jagannath Mishra, have denied charges made against them in a case related to the multi-crore rupee fodder scam. The two contested the charges when they appeared in a special CBI court in Ranchi on Tuesday where their statements in the case were recorded. Both Lalu Prasad and Mishra denied the charges of involvement in the case and said they were being...
05:52 PM, Feb 14, 2012
Ranchi: Former Bihar chief minister and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad on Tuesday appeared before a special CBI court which recorded his statement in connection with a fodder scam case. The court of Pravas Kumar Singh recorded the statements under CrPc 313 in the case pertaining to alleged fraudulent withdrawal of about Rs 37.7 crore from Chaibasa treasury between 1992 and 1995. Lalu faces charges in six fodder cases - five...
01:16 PM, Feb 14, 2012
Ranchi: A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Monday summoned two of former Bihar chief ministers - Lalu Yadav and Jagannath Mishra - in connection with the fodder scam case. The two are likely to appear before a Ranchi court on Monday to record their statements regarding the fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 37 crore from the Chaibasa treasury. The case which surfaced in 2009 also dragged some prominent...
08:39 AM, Feb 13, 2012
Ranchi: A special CBI court on Monday convicted 61 accused in a multi-crore fodder scam case relating to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 14.52 crore from Jamshedpur Treasury during undivided Bihar. Judge Pravas Kumar Singh sentenced 20 persons to one to three years imprisonment and slapped fine of Rs 30,000 to Rs five lakh.The court would pronounce the quantum of sentence against the rest later. Three of the total convicts were...
06:13 PM, Jan 16, 2012
Patna: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad along with Bihar former chief minister Jagannath Mishra and 32 other accused appeared before a CBI designated court on Monday for framing of charges against them in the fodder scam case. CBI judge BK Jain, however, did not take up framing of charges against the accused after six accused of them, including Mishra, moved a petition praying that they be allowed to...
02:24 PM, Aug 29, 2011
There were a total 12 accused in the case and two died during the trial. ...
11:48 PM, Feb 09, 2009
Gautam Goswami, feted in
Time for flood relief work, was accused of graft. ...
04:54 PM, Jan 06, 2009
Lahore: India's blind cricket team arrived here on Wednesday for a 12-day tour, their first to Pakistan in five years, in what many expect would help in restoration of full sports ties between the two countries. Shortly after the 17-member delegation crossed into Pakistan via the Wagah land border, Indian blind cricket team captain Shekhar Naik Lachma told reporters: "I am very happy that we were given such a great...
03:31 PM, Mar 20, 2008
The court hands out rigorous imprisonment for up to seven years for the fraudulant withdrawal of Rs 55.55 lakh from the Godda treasury. ...
03:45 PM, Jun 12, 2007
After Lalu-Rabri acquittal, BJP's Ravi Shanker Prasad alleged Lalu has 'fixed' the judge to get a clean chit in the case. ...
02:22 AM, Dec 19, 2006
Railway Minister Lalu Yadav and his wife Rabri Devi will be announced judgment in disproportionate asset case on Dec 18. ...
07:16 PM, Dec 05, 2006
