The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued fresh summons to the wife of RJD MP P.C. Gupta for recording her statement in connection with alleged corruption in awarding maintenance contracts of two railway hotels to a Patna-based private company when party chief Lalu Prasad was Railway Minister. Three more suspects have been summoned. The notice has been served on Sarla Gupta […]
» Read moreA Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader was shot dead on Saturday by unidentified assailants in Bihar’s Siwan district, police said. “A group of armed unidentified assailants shot five bullets into Minhaj Khan’s head while he was sleeping in his house in Sheikhpura village,” district police officer Sanjit Kumar said. According to the police, Khan was a popular leader among youths […]
» Read moreAs was widely expected, the Nitish Kumar-BJP combine won the crucial floor test in the Bihar Assembly with a convincing margin of 131 votes. The RJD-Congress combine got 108 votes. Nitish-BJP needed 122 members’ support for a win in the 243-member House.
» Read moreLess than 24 hours after he resigned as the chief minister of Bihar stating he could no longer continue amid allegations of corruption in his government, Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kumar came back as chief minister when he took the oath of office Thursday morning. The JD(U) leader resigned over a CBI FIR against his deputy and ally Lalu […]
» Read moreIn fresh trouble for Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a money laundering case against him and his family members in a railway hotels allotment corruption case dating back to the United Progressive Alliance tenure, officials said on Thursday. The case was registered under sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). […]
» Read moreThe Enforcement Directorate on Saturday conducted searches on the premises of RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s daughter Misa Bharti and her husband, Shailesh Kumar, in a money laundering case involving shell companies. Searches were also carried out against Mishail Packers and Printers, in which Ms. Bharti, an MP, and her husband are directors. The ED probe pertains to a chargesheet filed […]
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