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Friday, November 14, 2025
TopicAlok Verma

Topic: Alok Verma

Nirav Modi sleuth among 4 CBI officers removed by Modi govt

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

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

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

It started long before Narendra Modi took office.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

On Camera

Virat, Anushka, Bumrah selling sarias & cement, dentists, vets, Bihar walls painted in ‘rurbanisation’

Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.

Wealth nears $99 trillion, still Asia’s rich don’t have succession plans

Much of this wealth is tied to founder-led businesses that employ millions and help anchor regional economies.

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.