Bengaluru, May 19 (IANS) Senior BJP leader and Leader of the Opposition, R. Ashoka, on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the Congress government over its three-year anniversary celebrations in Tumakuru, questioning the achievements of the administration and accusing it of ‘corruption’, ‘financial mismanagement’ and ‘administrative failure’.Addressing Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar in a statement, he targeted the government over the alleged Mysuru Urban …
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Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) A new division bench of the Calcutta High Court, Justice Shampa Sarkar and Justice Tirthankar Ghosh, will hear on Tuesday the case on the 2024 ghastly rape and murder of a woman doctor of the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital.As per the cause list of the Calcutta High Court, the hearing in the matter will start at 1 p.m.After the previous division bench headed by Justice Rajasekhar Mantha recused from hearing the matter on May 12, observing that “this impor…
Kolkata, May 12 (IANS) With the first Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in West Bengal having already taken charge with Suvendu Adhikari as the first BJP Chief Minister, Siddhartha Majumdar, the chairman of the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC), an autonomous body under the State Education Department, has tendered his resignation on Tuesday.The WBSSC has faced scrutiny due to the multi-crore cash-for-school job scandal that occurred during the previous Trinamool Congress governme…
Mumbai, May 9 (IANS) The Shiv Sena, led by Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray, on Saturday said that if India truly aspires to become a “Vishwaguru” or a “Viksit Bharat”, it must first shut down what it described as a “washing machine” that sanitises the corrupt.In an editorial published in the party mouthpiece Saamana, the Thackeray camp said corruption remains the country’s biggest enemy and those who cling to power by surrounding themselves with corrupt individuals have no moral authori…
Kolkata, April 19 (IANS) Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC), whose co-founder Vinesh Chandel was arrested earlier this month by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials in Delhi in connection with the multi-crore coal smuggling case in West Bengal, on Sunday, announced its decision to temporarily shut down all its operations in the poll-bound state for 20 days.The management of I-PAC, which has been acting as the voter strategy agency of the Trinamool Congress since 2022, on Sunday sent…
New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Monday issued notice on a recusal application filed by AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal, who appeared in person and sought that the matter relating to the alleged excise policy case be heard by a Bench other than that of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma. The development came during the hearing of a plea filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) challenging a trial court order discharging Kejriwal, former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sis…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Monday issued notice to AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal, former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and 21 others on a plea filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) challenging their discharge in the Delhi excise policy case.A single-judge Bench of Justice Swarna Kanta Sharma sought responses from the accused on the CBI’s criminal revision petition assailing the trial court order which had refused to frame charges and dis…
New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted interim relief to Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren in a case related to alleged non-compliance of summons issued by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).A division bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi stayed the proceedings pending before the MP-MLA Special Court in Ranchi and issued a notice to the ED, seeking its response in the matter.The case stems from a complaint filed by the ED on Feb…
Kolkata, Feb 6 (IANS) A special court of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), here, on Friday, issued arrest warrant against Akhtar Ali, who had been the first whistleblower in the multi-crore financial irregularities case in state-run R.G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, also infamous for the ghastly rape and murder of a woman junior doctor within the hospital premises in August 2024.Ali, the former Deputy Superintendent of R.G. Kar, was the first one to raise an alarm over th…
Bengaluru, Feb 5 (IANS) The Karnataka High Court on Thursday granted medical bail to Congress MLA Satish K Sail, who is lodged in jail in connection with a money laundering case, to enable him to undergo a liver transplantation.The court directed MLA Satish Sail to submit a report once every two weeks regarding the liver transplantation. It also instructed him to file a health progress report before the court once every eight weeks.The court further underlined that Satish Sail should not influen…