A Nepal parliamentary committee has uncovered a large-scale corruption worth around Nepalese Rs 14 billion in the construction of the Pokhara International Airport, built by a Chinese company with a soft loan from China. A report by the sub-committee under the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Representatives (HoR) led by Member of Parliament…
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is investigating claims from former American employees of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest IT firm. The workers allege they were unfairly laid off due to their age, race, and national origin. According to Bloomberg, several workers involved in the investigation are over 40 and not of South…
NEW DELHI: After issuing show-cause notices to 11 private schools for unfair fee hikes and irregularities in accounts, Delhi Education Minister Ashish Sood on Thursday claimed a major victory against a top private school in Dwarka after a court ordered an inspection led by the District Magistrate.Talking to media, Sood said notices were issued to…
Indian-American Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal has raised an alarm with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) following discrepancies in the reports of the death of a detained Chinese immigrant at an Arizona detention centre. The Democrat has raised serious questions about whether Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) followed protocols laid-down to…
Priyanka Gandhi accompanied Robert Vadra to the ED office NEW DELHI: Businessman Robert Vadra appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Delhi for the third straight day on Thursday. Vadra was accompanied by his wife and Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi. The third summons issued follows a money laundering probe linked to a 2008 land deal…
Union home minister Amit Shah (File Image) Emphasising how the use of advanced technology and modern means of communication have made crimes borderless, Amit Shah on Monday said the use of forensic science is crucial for speedy investigation and improving the conviction rate from the current 54% to, say, 94% in a few years. Addressing…
NEW DELHI: A petition was filed on Monday in the Supreme Court seeking a court-monitored SIT probe into the Murshidabad violence that broke out during the anti-Waqf law protests, reported LiveLaw. The plea, filed by advocate Shashank Shekhar Jha, also sought the top court’s directions to protect the lives and properties vulnerable to the riots.Tension…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has said that the court should refrain from ordering CBI inquiry in a routine manner and it should direct probe by the central agency only when it comes to a prima facie conclusion that investigation cannot be done properly and fairly by state police.It further said that the court should exercise…
Committee probing allegation of 40 pc commission by previous Karnataka govt submits report to CM Siddaramaiah (File image) NEW DELHI: Karnataka minister HK Patil on Friday announced that the Congress-led state government has decided to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the 40 per cent commission allegation against the previous Bharatiya Janata…
RAIPUR: The administration in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, has sent a notice to a well-known private hospital following allegations that “Dr John Camm, aka Narendra Vikramaditya Yadav“, operated on former Chhattisgarh Speaker Rajendra Prasad Shukla, who died shortly after surgery in 2006.The notice seeks to know how long Camm was employed with them and details of the…