Mining Corruption

The CBI has booked the country's leading aluminium producer Hindalco of the Aditya Birla Group for alleged corruption in getting environmental clearances for coal mining between 2011 and 2013, officials said on Tuesday.

She had on Tuesday appeared before the probe agency in Ranchi for questioning in a money laundering case linked to alleged embezzlement of MGNREGA funds in the Khunti district of the state and other charges.

Senior Jammu and Kashmir BJP leader and former MLC Vikram Randhawa got a showcause notice by the party's disciplinary committee, hours after he levelled corruption charges against Union minister Jitendra Singh.

The CBI has booked a retired IAS officer for alleged corruption in giving leases to facilitate illegal mining of minor minerals in Kaushambi in Uttar Pradesh when he was posted as a district magistrate during 2012-14, officials said today.

Days after Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das rebuffed allegations of corruption and scam during his tenure, his cabinet minister-turned-political adversary Saryu Roy doubled down on his charges on Friday and claimed to have proof of the Chief Minister's involvement in an illegal mining scam in the state.

There was "no evidence" of corruption against Alok Verma, and the decision of a Prime Minister-led committee to sack him as chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was "very, very hasty", a former Supreme Court judge who monitored the vigilance inquiry into allegations against Mr Verma has said. Justice AK Patnaik has also said "none of ...

A Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested the personal secretaries of three state ministers on charges of corruption and bribery, ANI reported today. They had come under the scanner after a news channel caught them seeking bribes inside the Vidhan Sabha premises during a sting operation conducted on Wednesday.

Former bureaucrat HC Gupta and four others have been found guilty by a Delhi court in a case related to alleged irregularities in the allocation of the coal block to a Kolkata-based company.

A Karnataka court today granted bail to Gali Janardhana Reddy, Ballari mining baron and a former state minister, three days after he was arrested along with an aide in a bribery case. According to reports, he was made to furnish a bond of Rs 1 lakh as surety.

Ballari's mining baron and former BJP minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, who was questioned for hours in an alleged bribery case last evening, has been arrested, the police said. Ali Khan, a close aid of Janardhan Reddy, was also arrested. The former minister, who is facing multiple charges of corruption, has already spent three years in jail. He was o...

A special court has ordered the framing of an additional charge of abetment of bribery against Congress leader and industrialist Naveen Jindal and others in a case pertaining to irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block.

Just a day before BJP's BS Yeddyurappa faces the Supreme Court-ordered floor test in the Karnataka assembly, the Congress on Friday released an audio tape that the party claims shows how the BJP was trying to lure its legislators to support Chief Minister Yeddyurappa in the Karnataka assembly.

In the Karnataka elections, the Congress has targeted the BJP for fielding the controversial Reddy brothers, mining barons from Ballari, better known as Bellary, in north Karnataka synonymous with corruption

Gali Janardhan Reddy, the scam tainted politician who has spent three years in jail over corruption charges, will campaign for the BJP in the Karnataka assembly elections, the party's chief ministerial candidate BS Yeddyurappa has told NDTV.

Former environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan has been charged with corruption in a case filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation which raided her home in Chennai on Saturday. She has been accused of abusing her powers to divert forest land for a mining project in 2012 when she was the environment minister in the previous Congress-led coalitio...

The CBI has booked the country's leading aluminium producer Hindalco of the Aditya Birla Group for alleged corruption in getting environmental clearances for coal mining between 2011 and 2013, officials said on Tuesday.

She had on Tuesday appeared before the probe agency in Ranchi for questioning in a money laundering case linked to alleged embezzlement of MGNREGA funds in the Khunti district of the state and other charges.

Senior Jammu and Kashmir BJP leader and former MLC Vikram Randhawa got a showcause notice by the party's disciplinary committee, hours after he levelled corruption charges against Union minister Jitendra Singh.

The CBI has booked a retired IAS officer for alleged corruption in giving leases to facilitate illegal mining of minor minerals in Kaushambi in Uttar Pradesh when he was posted as a district magistrate during 2012-14, officials said today.

Days after Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das rebuffed allegations of corruption and scam during his tenure, his cabinet minister-turned-political adversary Saryu Roy doubled down on his charges on Friday and claimed to have proof of the Chief Minister's involvement in an illegal mining scam in the state.

There was "no evidence" of corruption against Alok Verma, and the decision of a Prime Minister-led committee to sack him as chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was "very, very hasty", a former Supreme Court judge who monitored the vigilance inquiry into allegations against Mr Verma has said. Justice AK Patnaik has also said "none of ...

A Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested the personal secretaries of three state ministers on charges of corruption and bribery, ANI reported today. They had come under the scanner after a news channel caught them seeking bribes inside the Vidhan Sabha premises during a sting operation conducted on Wednesday.

Former bureaucrat HC Gupta and four others have been found guilty by a Delhi court in a case related to alleged irregularities in the allocation of the coal block to a Kolkata-based company.

A Karnataka court today granted bail to Gali Janardhana Reddy, Ballari mining baron and a former state minister, three days after he was arrested along with an aide in a bribery case. According to reports, he was made to furnish a bond of Rs 1 lakh as surety.

Ballari's mining baron and former BJP minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, who was questioned for hours in an alleged bribery case last evening, has been arrested, the police said. Ali Khan, a close aid of Janardhan Reddy, was also arrested. The former minister, who is facing multiple charges of corruption, has already spent three years in jail. He was o...

A special court has ordered the framing of an additional charge of abetment of bribery against Congress leader and industrialist Naveen Jindal and others in a case pertaining to irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block.

Just a day before BJP's BS Yeddyurappa faces the Supreme Court-ordered floor test in the Karnataka assembly, the Congress on Friday released an audio tape that the party claims shows how the BJP was trying to lure its legislators to support Chief Minister Yeddyurappa in the Karnataka assembly.

In the Karnataka elections, the Congress has targeted the BJP for fielding the controversial Reddy brothers, mining barons from Ballari, better known as Bellary, in north Karnataka synonymous with corruption

Gali Janardhan Reddy, the scam tainted politician who has spent three years in jail over corruption charges, will campaign for the BJP in the Karnataka assembly elections, the party's chief ministerial candidate BS Yeddyurappa has told NDTV.

Former environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan has been charged with corruption in a case filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation which raided her home in Chennai on Saturday. She has been accused of abusing her powers to divert forest land for a mining project in 2012 when she was the environment minister in the previous Congress-led coalitio...