Written By Arvind Gunasekar

Former Amnesty International India chiefAakar Patel was stopped from boarding a flight to the US at Bengaluru Airport today.

Mamata Banerjee has written to opposition leaders across the country alleging misuse of central agencies by the ruling BJP, and has called for a meeting to discuss a "way forward".

64 per cent of the Rs 10,990 crore collected by the PM CARES Fund between March 27, 2020, and March 31, 2021, remained unused as of the latter date, according to data accessed by NDTV.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) today arrested Karvy Group's Chairman and Managing Director C Parthasarathy and its Chief Financial Officer G Krishna Hari in a case of alleged money laundering.

The government did not freeze bank accounts operated by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity, the Home Ministry said Monday evening, claiming the organisation had itself written to SBI asking for its accounts to be suspended.

Fourteen opposition parties - including the Congress and the Trinamool Congress - have decided to skip the Constitution Day events today in the parliament's Central Hall, and also at the Vigyan Bhawan. Attacking the centre, Congress's Manickam Tagore

COVID-19 vaccine stocks available with states have nearly doubled this month, government data shows. The country's top group on immunisation is also likely to meet this week to discuss giving an additional dose or a third dose.

The CBI has sought sanction from the Allahabad High Court to prosecute former Allahabad High Court judge SN Shukla in the infamous medical college admission corruption case involving higher judiciary.

Amid the growing demand for caste census from several opposition parties and the centre stonewalling it, the Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI has opened a criminal investigation to probe alleged cheating and falsification of census data.

The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed chargesheets against six people including a serving commander and two retired Indian Navy officers for allegedly passing on confidential information about India's Kilo Class submarines.

An error in the tough anti-drugs law - the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act- described as an "oversight" by the government has been fixed after seven years with an ordinance that was signed off by President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday.

The Madras High Court today sought a reply from the state government and the centre on a petition challenging the validity of 42nd Constitutional Amendment in 1976 that moved education, which was earlier a state subject, to a concurrent list.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a corruption and cheating case against three officials of Employees' Provident Fund Organisation or EPFO for allegedly siphoning off around 2.71 crore between March 2020-June 2021.

The Central Bureau of Investigation should be an autonomous body reporting only to parliament, the Madras High Court said on Tuesday.

A day after activist Stan Swamy's death in custody, senior opposition leaders, including Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar and National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah, have written to the President.

Former Amnesty International India chiefAakar Patel was stopped from boarding a flight to the US at Bengaluru Airport today.

Mamata Banerjee has written to opposition leaders across the country alleging misuse of central agencies by the ruling BJP, and has called for a meeting to discuss a "way forward".

64 per cent of the Rs 10,990 crore collected by the PM CARES Fund between March 27, 2020, and March 31, 2021, remained unused as of the latter date, according to data accessed by NDTV.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) today arrested Karvy Group's Chairman and Managing Director C Parthasarathy and its Chief Financial Officer G Krishna Hari in a case of alleged money laundering.

The government did not freeze bank accounts operated by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity, the Home Ministry said Monday evening, claiming the organisation had itself written to SBI asking for its accounts to be suspended.

Fourteen opposition parties - including the Congress and the Trinamool Congress - have decided to skip the Constitution Day events today in the parliament's Central Hall, and also at the Vigyan Bhawan. Attacking the centre, Congress's Manickam Tagore

COVID-19 vaccine stocks available with states have nearly doubled this month, government data shows. The country's top group on immunisation is also likely to meet this week to discuss giving an additional dose or a third dose.

The CBI has sought sanction from the Allahabad High Court to prosecute former Allahabad High Court judge SN Shukla in the infamous medical college admission corruption case involving higher judiciary.

Amid the growing demand for caste census from several opposition parties and the centre stonewalling it, the Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI has opened a criminal investigation to probe alleged cheating and falsification of census data.

The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed chargesheets against six people including a serving commander and two retired Indian Navy officers for allegedly passing on confidential information about India's Kilo Class submarines.

An error in the tough anti-drugs law - the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act- described as an "oversight" by the government has been fixed after seven years with an ordinance that was signed off by President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday.

The Madras High Court today sought a reply from the state government and the centre on a petition challenging the validity of 42nd Constitutional Amendment in 1976 that moved education, which was earlier a state subject, to a concurrent list.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a corruption and cheating case against three officials of Employees' Provident Fund Organisation or EPFO for allegedly siphoning off around 2.71 crore between March 2020-June 2021.

The Central Bureau of Investigation should be an autonomous body reporting only to parliament, the Madras High Court said on Tuesday.

A day after activist Stan Swamy's death in custody, senior opposition leaders, including Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar and National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah, have written to the President.