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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicAlok Verma

Topic: Alok Verma

Nirav Modi sleuth among 4 CBI officers removed by Modi govt

Kritika Sharma -
Modi government Thursday removed four officers, including Rakesh Asthana, from CBI amid an unprecedented churn in the probe agency.

After Alok Verma, Modi govt now removes Rakesh Asthana & 3 top CBI officers

Maneesh Chhibber -
Decision to curtail tenure of these four officers was taken by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, headed by PM Modi. New Delhi: A week...

Give us back our staid, old & boring Supreme Court, dear Lordships

Shekhar Gupta -
If SC introspects, it will see how its dabbling with CBI has been self-destructive. So bad the blame has now shifted from Modi govt to judiciary.

How the lack of ‘dharma’ caused the CBI crisis

Nitin Pai -
It started long before Narendra Modi took office.

Justice Sikri’s govt offer: Needless row or shows judges must avoid post-retirement jobs?

ThePrint Team -
A month before Justice A.K. Sikri’s vote decided the fate of Alok Verma as CBI director, the Narendra Modi government had offered him the...

Not just CBI, Modi government does not want any institution to be autonomous

Kumar Ketkar -
In the past four years, nobody in the ruling NDA has even raised the topic of an independent CBI

After ThePrint report, SC judge Sikri rejects Modi govt’s post-retirement job offer

Maneesh Chhibber -
Justice A.K. Sikri, a member of the panel that ousted Alok Verma as CBI director, had drawn a lot of flak after ThePrint reported the job offer.

Congress calls chief vigilance commissioner a puppet & wants him sacked immediately

PTI -
Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said that the CVC has to do vigilance for public good and not for political masters. 

Justice Sikri, whose vote decided Alok Verma’s fate, gets Modi govt nod for plum posting

Maneesh Chhibber -
Justice Sikri was part of the three-member panel that decided to remove Alok Verma as CBI chief this month.

Staying afloat with quota, and a revolving CBI door

Rupanwita Bhattacharjee -
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Opinion

India-Pakistan marriage breakdown that British can’t stop crying about

Tina Das -
Ever since the Love Is Blind: UK episode dropped, there has been a collective meltdown online over the separation of Pakistan-origin Kal Pasha and Indian-origin Sarover Kaur Aujla.

China will be more central to India now. Though an anti-US unity is premature

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Road building is a money-making racket in India. And we have a very short memory

Economy

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

+TFP Mayank Kumar -
ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

Defence

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Tanzia Alam -
Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

National Interest

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

Shekhar Gupta -
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.

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