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Former US President Bill Clinton and former first lady Hillary Clinton on Wednesday defied a congressional subpoena through a letter, declining to testify in a House investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and their past associations with the convicted sex trafficker, even as Republican lawmakers move to initiate contempt of Congress proceedings against them.In the letter, which…
High court on Tuesday ordered a vigilance probe into the alleged misappropriation of proceeds from the sale of ‘aadiya sishtam ghee’ (the ghee left over after the Neyyabhishekam offering) at the Sabarimala Sannidhanam. KOCHI: High court on Tuesday ordered a vigilance probe into the alleged misappropriation of proceeds from the sale of ‘aadiya sishtam ghee’…
NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate Monday filed a writ petition in SC seeking a CBI probe into 17 offences under BNS allegedly committed by Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, state DGP and Kolkata police commissioner on Jan 8 by obstructing ED raid on I-PAC’s Pratik Jain, tampering and stealing evidence and intimidating its officials. It requested SC…
NEW DELHI: The former chancellor of Maulana Azad National Urdu University Firoz Bakht Ahmed has written to Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, alleging religious discrimination, administrative apathy and institutional failure at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and seeking an independent central probe into the matter. In his letter, Ahmed flagged the case of Rachana Kaushal, a…
The TOI correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump is on the warpath against Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Greenland — and the Federal Reserve. In a move that has rattled financial markets and political circles alike, the Trump administration’s Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, marking an unprecedented clash…
Vijay appears before CBI in Delhi over Karur stampede case NEW DELHI: TVK Chief, actor Vijay, on Monday appeared before the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Delhi in connection with the investigation into the Karur stampede case. A special team is questioning him at the agency’s headquarters, sources said.Last week, the CBI issued a…
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee after she walked out of the house of Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) chief Pratik Jain during an ED raid (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking directions for the registration of an FIR against West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banarjee, the…
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Union home minister Amit Shah demanded Sunday Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan‘s resignation and warned of statewide BJP protests unless a “neutral probe” is ordered into an alleged gold heist linked to Sabarimala hill shrine. “It is time for CM Pinarayi Vijayan to go, as LDF could not safeguard Sabarimala and also could not bring…
JABALPUR: What was projected as a state-funded research initiative to combat cancer using cow dung, cow urine and milk instead snowballed into an alleged financial scandal at Nanaji Deshmukh Veterinary Science University.Following complaints of misuse of research funds, Jabalpur Collector Raghvendra Singh ordered a probe and constituted a 2-member committee led by Additional Collector RS…
DHAKA: A total of 32 prominent citizens and rights activists on Saturday condemned the planned killings, especially the killing of minorities, serial violence and the burning of houses in the country, stressing that the Prof Yunus-led interim govt is failing to prosecute the perpetrators of violence against the minorities. They demanded that those responsible for…
