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  US sanctions South Africa's Gupta family over 'widespread corruption'

  World | October 10, 2019 22:14 IST

  The US on Thursday announced sanctions against South Africa's high-profile Indian-origin Gupta family for running a "significant corruption network" that leveraged its political connections to engage in bribery, capture government contracts and misappropriate state assets.

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  UPPCL working on zero-tolerance for corruption

  India | October 10, 2019 11:07 IST

  In order to ensure that inquiry in these cases of corruption is completed without any delay and strict action is taken against those found guilty, the department has done constant follow-up at the higher level as well.

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  Wish I could follow Jinping's example and put corrupt in jail: Imran

  World | October 09, 2019 18:41 IST

  Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said he wished he could send 500 corrupt individuals in the country to jail by emulating Chinese President Xi Jinping's "crusade" against corruption.

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  SEBI takes guard against security threats, plans to hire agency

  Business | September 29, 2019 10:43 IST

  Markets regulator Sebi plans to rope in an agency to identify and classify security holes in its entire information technology infrastructure and suggest measures to mitigate such risks.

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  INX Media corruption case SC asks trial court to consider Chidambaram's request for interim bail

  India | September 02, 2019 14:33 IST

  The apex court said that if Chidambaram's request for interim bail is not considered by the trial court Monday itself, the CBI's custody of Chidambaram will be extended for three more days. 

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  Karnataka Congress leader Shivakumar appears before ED again

  India | August 31, 2019 14:09 IST

  The Karnataka High Court on Friday rejected Shivakumar's petition for interim protection from arrest by the financial probe agency.

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  CBI carries out joint surprise checks at 150 places across country against corruption

  India | August 30, 2019 19:48 IST

  The special drive was conducted primarily at such points of corruption where common citizens or small businessmen feel maximum pinch of corruption in the government machinery, they said.

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  Man held with fake currency worth Rs 24.60 lakh in Hisar

  India | August 30, 2019 16:31 IST

  The accused has been identified as Rohit alias Raman, a resident of Hisar's Barah Mohalla area, he said.  

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  Yogi govt's extra vigil to curb corruption in UP

  India | August 29, 2019 13:19 IST

  The vigil will be conducted by special operatives apart from top functionaries in the government and the party. According to sources, soon after the recent expansion of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's Cabinet, the working of the ministers along with their personal secretaries and public relations officers is also going to be monitored. Sources say the monitoring is being done by key people involved in governance and also from the party.

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  22 tax officials retires on graft charges

  India | August 26, 2019 17:07 IST

  The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) - the agency that overseas GST and import tax collections - compulsorily retired 22 superintendent rank officers under Fundamental Rule 56(J) on corruption and other charges, official sources said.

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  Pakistan anti-corruption court extends Former President Zardari's judicial remand by three days

  World | August 16, 2019 17:16 IST

  Zardari, 64, was presented before accountability court judge Mohammad Bashir who sent the former president to Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi on judicial remand after the National Accountability Bureau prosecutor Muzaffar Abbasi said there was a new development in the matter and sought an extension in Zardari's physical remand, Dawn newspaper reported.  

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  Court sends businessman Sana Satish Babu to judicial custody

  India | August 09, 2019 19:58 IST

  The agency is probing the purported purchase of shares worth Rs 50 lakh of a company linked to Qureshi by Babu. He was earlier called as a witness in the money-laundering case but with Friday's development, he has turned an accused.

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  Yogi cracks whip on Uttar Pradesh's 'transfer industry', asks to route key files through CMO

  India | August 09, 2019 17:42 IST

  The 'transfer industry', as it is known, is the biggest corruption machine in Uttar Pradesh. CM Yogi Adityanath's crackdown on random transfers have come as a respite for common people whose works were hit by these random transfers. 

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  Sonbhadra: Behind Uttar Pradesh's bloodiest killing lies a trail of corruption and mafia raj

  India | July 19, 2019 20:48 IST

  Wednesday's massacre in Sonebhadra's Ghorawal tehsil, which killed 10 tribal farmers, was the outcome of one such case where revenue records were fudged by an IAS officer at the behest of the local land mafia to claim more than 600 bighas of land worth over Rs 48 crore.

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  CBI searches 110 places in 19 states, Union Territories in major crackdown on corruption

  India | July 09, 2019 13:28 IST

  The Central Bureau of Investigation searched 110 places in 19 states and Union Territories in the country. The act is being looked upon as the Modi government's major crackdown on corruption. Nearly 30 cases have been registered over corruption, criminal misconduct, etc. 

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  Force corrupt employees to take VRS: UP CM directs officials

  India | June 20, 2019 22:48 IST

  Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Thursday directed officials to crack the whip on corrupt employees and give them voluntary retirement.

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  IRS officer, sacked over alleged corruption, accuse Revenue Secy of personal vendetta

  India | June 18, 2019 19:50 IST

  Srivastava, head of Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise) Officers Association, said the allegations of corruption levelled against him are wrong and that he has already been acquitted by courts that heard these matters.

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  Crackdown on corruption: Modi govt sacks 15 customs, central excise officers

  India | June 18, 2019 16:01 IST

  After sacking errant income tax officers, the government on Tuesday dismissed from service 15 senior customs and central excise officials, including one of the rank of principal commissioner, on charges of corruption and bribery.  

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  Kairana SHO suspended over corruption charges

  India | June 06, 2019 11:02 IST

  SHO Rajender Nager was suspended Wednesday following complaints of corruption against him, Superintendent of Police (SP) Ajay Kumar said.

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  Rakesh Asthana bribery case: High Court grants 4 more months to CBI to complete probe

  India | May 31, 2019 11:28 IST

  Justice Mukta Gupta allowed the CBI's plea seeking extension of time to complete its investigation in the case lodged against Asthana, DSP Devender Kumar and middleman Manoj Prasad.