Shamik Raja

• Kunda cop murder: Raja Bhaiya clears lie detector test, CBI gives him a clean chit

  The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has given former Uttar Pradesh minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya a clean chit in the murder case of Kunda Deputy Superintendent of Police Zia-ul-Haque. Along with the supplementary chargesheet, the CBI today filed a "technical" closure report in a Lucknow court.

• Kunda cop murder: Raja Bhaiya clears lie detector test, CBI to give him clean chit, say sources

  The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to give former Uttar Pradesh minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya a clean chit in the murder case of Kunda Deputy Superintendent of Police Zia-ul-Haque, sources said today. The CBI is expected to submit its probe report along with the results of a polygraph test done on Raja Bhaiya in ...

• 2G scam: all-out war for Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC)

  It's war in the joint parliamentary committee or JPC that dissected the telecom or 2G scam. Opposition members have said they have no confidence in Congressman PC Chacko as its chairman and want his removal. The Congress has hit back demanding the removal of three of the BJP's six members - Jaswant Singh, Yashwant Sinha and Ravi Shankar Prasad for ...

• 2G scam: Committee at war, Samajwadi Party is key for Congress

  In a new example of an old habit, the Congress is in an awfully tight spot, and needs the Samajwadi Party (SP) for a bailout. The Congress' problem is this: exactly half of a parliamentary committee that examined the telecom or 2G scam has today demanded the removal of Congressman PC Chacko as the committee's head.

• UP policeman's murder: CBI seeks transfer of four cops

  The Central Bureau of Investigation, which is probing the murder of senior police officer Zia-ul-Haque and two others in Uttar Pradesh's Kunda, has written to the Akhilesh Yadav government seeking transfer of four cops, who are allegedly hampering its investigation.

• Murdered UP cop Zia-ul-Haque had prepared list of cases against Raja Bhaiya

  Six months before he was shot dead in the constituency of politician Raja Bhaiya, senior police officer Zia-ul-Haque had prepared a list of cases against the MLA. Charges in the 47 cases listed against him include murder, conspiracy to murder and violations under the Gangster Act.

• UP cop's murder: In Raja Bhaiya's Kunda, CBI appeals for witnesses

  The 10-member Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team in Kunda, Uttar Pradesh has appealed to villagers to come forward as witnesses in its probe into the murder of senior police officer Zia-ul-Haque, who was shot dead on March 2. In a press release, the CBI team, which has set up a camp office and a helpline number in Pratapgarh, has assured th...

• How senior policeman Zia-ul-Haq was murdered in Raja Bhaiya's constituency

  It was sunset in Ballipur, a village in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, when the pradhan or village head, Nanhe Yadav, was shot by four people. This is the turf of Raja Bhaiya, who has been elected from this region five times as a state legislator. The CBI has registered a case against Raja Bhaiya, who resigned on Tuesday as a minister.

• 2G scam: A Raja won't be allowed to testify for MPs' committee

  A Raja, the former telecom minister who allegedly pivoted one of India's top-ranking scams, will not be allowed to testify for a parliamentary committee assigned to fix accountability for how ineligible companies were given valuable licenses for mobile networks in 2008.

• Rani Mukherji's brother arrested on molestation allegations

  According to the police, the complainant is an aspirant movie director, who wanted to cast Rani Mukherji in her movie and had approached Raja. The police say the woman claims she had gone to meet Raja to discuss Rani Mukherji's casting when he molested her.

• Auctioning resources not necessary, says Supreme Court, but public good is

  The Supreme Court today clarified that it does not believe that all national resources must be auctioned -the opinion, delivered by five judges, provides relief for the government, partly because it accepts that the government has the right to decide policy, and also because it emphasised that "revenue maximisation cannot be the only way to serve ...

• SRK's Discovery Zoa Morani Turns 22

  Shah Rukh Khan's discovery Zoa Morani turned 22 today. She will debut in Roshan Abbas' maiden directorial venture Always Kabhi Kabhi.