
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested Four senior Income Tax officers in an alleged bribery case. Those arrested included Director (Investigations) Kunal Singh of the Indian Revenue Service who is currently posted as the Director (Investigations) in Kanpur. The agency arrested IRS officer Kunal Singh, Joint Director Investigations Ratan Singh, also an IRS officer, Assistant Commissioner Uma Kant and Income Tax inspector Harish Daundiyal, CBI sources...

03:09 PM, Jun 04, 2012

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has decided to hold a preliminary probe into the controversial coal block allocations and this could mean more direct trouble for the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister's Office was the incharge of the coal ministry between the probe period of 2006 and 2009. The CBI will be acting on an order by the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC). Sources say the CBI will...

08:04 AM, Jun 01, 2012

Turin: Juventus boss Antonio Conte has reiterated that he was not aware of any match-fixing during his time in charge of Siena. It has been alleged that the former Italy international was aware of a plot to arrange the outcome of a crucial Serie B clash with Novara on April 30, 2011 - to play out a draw - and the 42-year-old's house was searched on Monday as part of...

04:01 PM, May 29, 2012

Florence, Italy: Italy coach Cesare Prandelli has trimmed his provisional squad for the European Championship to 25 players. Prandelli will cut another two before submitting his final 23-man list to UEFA by mid-day local time on Tuesday. Zenit St. Petersburg defender Domenico Criscito was left out after he was placed under investigation for possible match-fixing during his time at Genoa. Emiliano Viviano, Davide Astori, Salvatore Bocchetti, Luca Cigarini, Ezequiel Schelotto...

02:31 PM, May 29, 2012

Rome: Italian police investigating a soccer match-fixing scandal placed Juventus trainer Antonio Conte under investigation and arrested the captain of Lazio Stefano Mauri and former Genoa midfielder Omar Milanetto, authorities said on Monday. The Italian football federation said Mauri was one of 14 people arrested. Italian authorities swept through the Italy national team training site near Florence on Monday and made more than a dozen arrests elsewhere as part of...

02:12 PM, May 28, 2012

Hyderabad: YSR Congress Chief Jagan Mohan Reddy was questioned by the CBI in the disproportionate assets case for the second consecutive day on Saturday. The leader said that he had been asked to come back on Sunday for another round of questioning. "Things went off peacefully. They sought for clarifications and I gave them. The CBI has sought more clarifications. Will give them some more time tomorrow," he said. Jagan...

07:12 PM, May 26, 2012

New Delhi: YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy will be quizzed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) again on Saturday. On Friday, he was grilled by CBI sleuths for over seven hours in connection with the disproportionate assets case. Jagan remained unperturbed by the grilling. The CBI is questioning Jagan on the Vadarevu and Nizampatnam Ports and Industrial Corridor (VANPIC) deal in the presence of industrialist Nimmagadda Prasad and...

06:11 AM, May 26, 2012

Hyderabad: YSR Congress chief and Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy was questioned for more than seven hours in connection with the disproportionate assets case by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Hyderabad even as thousands of his supporters laid siege of the city forcing the police to clamp prohibitory orders in the Andhra Pradesh capital. He will be questioned again on Saturday from 10:30 AM. Jagan, who went...

06:43 PM, May 25, 2012

New Delhi: Notwithstanding the raging NCTC controversy, a Parliamentary panel has recommended giving CBI "effective" statutory backing through enactment of a law similar to NIA act so that the agency can probe corruption cases throughout the country without the states' consent. The panel made the recommendation observing it is a "dire need" of the hour. "The Committee takes note of the opinion of the learned AG (Attorney General). But, it...

06:57 PM, May 22, 2012

Bangalore: Kannada actress Haripriya has denied reports that Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths raided her residence calling them "wild imagination of media". She also said that she is not romantically involved with B.S. Vijayendra, son of former Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa. "I am surprised how such baseless news was scrolled on news channels. There was no CBI raid at my house. I am surprised about the pattern of...

04:56 PM, May 16, 2012

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will on Tuesday start probing corruption charges against former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa in connection with the mining scam. "The Supreme Court has ordered a specific probe against Yeddyurappa. It is about the funding received by an NGO run by Yeddyurappa's family. The NGO was funded by mining and industrial companies," a CBI official said. The BJP's government in Karnataka has...

10:30 AM, May 15, 2012

New Delhi: The BJP on Monday asked the government to state who was behind the leakage of Army Chief Gen VK Singh's letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in which he had raised issues regarding the country's defence preparedness. "There are various versions about who leaked the sensitive document. Now a report says that it was leaked by a joint secretary in Cabinet Secretariat. It is time government makes a...

01:48 AM, May 15, 2012

Ranchi: Terming Aarushi murder as a tough case due to delay in getting the case, the CBI on Saturday felt early handing over the matter could have enabled it to gather solid evidence. "The CBI gets such cases very late. It gets such cases only after the state police and forensic experts finish their investigation. So, we don t have much time to get crucial evidence and it becomes difficult...

02:30 AM, May 13, 2012

New Delhi: The Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team, headed by former CBI director R K Raghavan, to probe the 2002 Gujarat riots has concluded in its 541-page closure report that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi took all possible steps to control the 2002 post-Godhra riots and questioned the motive behind filing a complaint against him by a riot victim four years after the communal violence. On Narendra Modi's role "Law...

12:26 PM, May 11, 2012

Thiruvananthapuram: Acting Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court Manjula Chellur on Friday gave directions to all the courts in the state for an immediate inquiry into the use of stamp papers, after a massive fraud of fake stamp papers was detected at a lower court here. A media report earlier this week showed the use of fake stamp papers being used by litigators in a few courts here. Following...

02:22 PM, Apr 20, 2012