Will a change of guard be able to salvage BJP's situation? CNN-IBN's National Bureau Chief Bhupendra Chaubey joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
06:03 PM, Jan 23, 2013
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday conducted raids on Dental Council of India members at eight places across the country. The raids were conducted in Hyderabad, Chennai, Mangalore and Bangalore among other places. ...
02:41 PM, Jan 23, 2013
Troubled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday reacted to the Income Tax Department surveys on Purti group investors and accused the Centre of ordering I-T surveys to damage his presidential prospects. ...
04:46 PM, Jan 22, 2013
There seems to be fresh trouble for Nitin Gadkari who is set to be re-elected as the Bharatiya Janata Party President on Wednesday. The Mumbai I-T wing is surveying seven companies found to have been routing money into Gadkari's Purti Group after allegations against the companies surfaced in the Nagpur wing's probe. ...
01:13 PM, Jan 22, 2013
Shiv Sena on Sunday questioned the haste with which the controversial Assistant Commissioner of Police, Vasant Dhoble, was transferred after a hawker died during eviction drive in suburban Santacruz two days ago. Sena leader Diwakar Raote said today that Dhoble's style of functioning could be questionable, but his actions for implementing the rule of law should be supported. ...
01:58 AM, Jan 14, 2013
CBI on Sunday conducted a raid at the residence of a dentist here in connection with the case relating to alleged bribe taken by a dental council member for granting approval to a private dental college in Tamil Nadu to start a post-graduate course. ...
09:46 PM, Jan 13, 2013
Condemning ACP Vasant Dhoble's raid which led to the death of a hawker in Mumbai's Santacruz area, Congress MP Priya Dutt said strict inquiry will be conducted by the state Crime Investigation Department. "What happened today is very sad. One officer is not abiding by the law, but is making his own law. I respect Mumbai police. But sometimes few people come who disgrace the whole police community," she said. ...
02:43 PM, Jan 12, 2013
Assistant Commissioner of Police Vasant Dhoble, who hit the headlines for his late night crackdown on pubs and restaurants in Mumbai, is back in the news again after a 50-year-old fruit hawker died of a heart attack on Friday evening during a raid conducted by Dhoble. A state Crime Investigation Department (CID) inquiry has been ordered and Dhoble has been transferred out of the area pending an inquiry. ...
11:40 AM, Jan 12, 2013
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a Deputy Director of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, a Superintendent of Customs and a representative of a Kolkata-based private firm in an alleged bribery case. The arrested accused persons were produced on Friday before the Special Judge for CBI Cases, Patiala House Courts, New Delhi and were remanded to five days police custody. ...
11:23 AM, Jan 12, 2013
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday raided top Customs and Directorate of revenue officials over bribery charges. CBI raids are on at 24 places in four states following the charges. ...
11:40 AM, Jan 09, 2013
London: Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones is eager to team up with husband Michael Douglas in a new stage production of 'Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?'. The Tony Award winner is keen to recreate the role of Martha in the tense Edward Albee play and she would like Douglas to play her character's professor husband George onstage, reported Daily Express. "Michael and I often talk about doing 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'...
11:30 AM, Nov 22, 2012
New Delhi: Just in nick of the time for US Presidential elections, the first film on US commando raid that killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in May 2011 was premiered on the US cable channel. Titled SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden, the 90 minute film was apparently watched by 2.7 million viewers just two days before the presidential elections. Buzz has it that the film...
01:59 PM, Nov 06, 2012
Jaipur: Income Tax department raided a jeweller's shop in Jaipur and recovered assets worth Rs 100 crore. The assets include cash amounting to Rs 1.5 crore. Jewellery worth Rs 1.5 crore and gold bricks worth Rs 70 lakh have also been recovered. Sources say the Income Tax department carried out the raids on Motisons Jewellers in Jaipur on Monday. Income Tax officials say that the jeweller is involved in hawala...
01:18 PM, Nov 06, 2012
New Delhi: The Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta police on Saturday raided the residence of a senior IPS officer and found cash and jewellery worth crores. The police reportedly recovered nearly Rs 25 crore worth of cash and jewellery from the Sagar and Bhopal residences of Umesh Gandhi, DIG, Prisons. Lokayukta inspector Naveen Avasthi said, "Around 25 crore worth wealth has been recovered. Various papers of the allotted land has been recovered....
01:33 PM, Nov 03, 2012
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Police's Economic Offences Wing on Monday began its probe into the alleged financial irregularities in a trust run by Union Minister Salman Khurshid. It started collecting documents at various levels, "including state, divisional and district headquarters as a part of the investigation", Director General EOW, Subrat Tripathi told PTI. When asked about the details, Tripathi said it was neither a raid nor a search. "How can...
02:15 PM, Oct 15, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday filed two fresh FIRs in the coal blocks allocations scam. Sources said that the agency was conducting searches at 16 locations, including in Delhi and Hyderabad. Two of the companies that were raided during the searches were Green Infra and Kamal Steel. The two companies are accused of misrepresenting their net worth. The agency, after registration of cases, launched search...
09:22 AM, Oct 15, 2012
New Delhi: Income Tax Department officials on Thursday raided the offices of GMR in multiple cities over suspected tax evasion by the infrastructure company. The search operations in the Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore offices of the company are being carried out by the I-T Department's investigation wing. GMR has confirmed the raids and a spokesperson said that the company was cooperating with authorities. GMR Group was among the companies that...
01:15 PM, Oct 11, 2012
Bangalore: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) carried out raids at at least 15 places across Karnataka in connection with illegal iron ore export. At least a dozen export companies have been accused of illegal export of seized iron ores from Belekeri port. The Reddy brothers of Bellary and Karnataka tourism minister Anand Singh are allegedly involved in the case. ...
02:25 PM, Sep 15, 2012
New Delhi: Social activist Arvind Kejriwal has sparked another controversy by claiming that the CBI had tipped off coal companies before carrying out raids on September 4 in connection with the alleged irregularities in coal blocks allocation. "Just recd (received) mail from an officer in one of raided cos. They were informed 2 days in advance abt (about) raids and were asked to remove all material," Kejriwal tweeted. Meanwhile, the...
11:58 AM, Sep 06, 2012
New Delhi: Welcoming the CBI raids on companies suspected to be involved in irregularities in allocation of coal blocks, BJP on Tuesday said the government should take a cue from this and cancel the allocation. "We welcome the CBI raids. It is a good development. Taking a cue from this, the government should also cancel the coal block allocations. It should also reply in Parliament as to why it is...
11:50 AM, Sep 04, 2012
