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Topic: CBI

‘Cash for query’ row: CBI initiates enquiry against Mahua Moitra, TMC MP cites Lokpal rulebook

Complaint forwarded to federal agency by Lokpal, which received it from BJP's Nishikant Dubey. Moitra says enquiry can't be conducted unless Lokpal uploads complaint on its website.

CBI raids ‘aides’ of key accused in $20 million ‘call-centre scam’ that targeted US citizens

At the centre of the case is Gujarat-based company E Sampark, which along with other entities ran call centres and allegedly defrauded foreigners, including Americans.

ED arrests 2 Ashoka University co-founders in money laundering case against their pharma firm

Ashoka University says it has no ties to Chandigarh-based Parabolic Drugs Ltd of which Pranav Gupta is MD & Vineet Gupta ‘whole time director’. ED has also arrested CA SK Bansal.

CBI registers case against Indian national who ‘duped’ US citizen, seizes cryptocurrency worth Rs 7.73 cr

Based on FBI tip-off, the agency raided Ahmedabad residence of accused and 2 accomplices. Accused allegedly tricked the victim into transferring USD 1,30,000 into a crypto wallet.

Getting ads for WFH jobs, ‘earn Rs 20,000 daily’? CBI says one of largest ‘cyber-enabled frauds’ in India

CBI has raided locations across India as part of 'Operation Chakra 2' to dismantle 'organised cyber-enabled financial crime’. An FIR in connection with the scam was registered last year.

CBI busts firms duping foreigners in guise of Microsoft & Amazon, Rs 100-cr crypto fraud in massive op

As part of CBI’s week-long ‘Operation Chakra 2’, searches carried out in MP, UP, Karnataka, Haryana, Kerala, TN, Punjab, Bihar, West Bengal and HP, as well as Delhi.  

A ‘slaughterhouse’ & a ‘confession’: 14-yr-old’s rape-murder is why Surinder Koli won’t walk free

SC in 2011 upheld death sentence handed to Surinder Koli by trial court in case of rape-murder of 14-yr-old girl. Koli's lawyer says will challenge death penalty in SC.

‘Gross FCRA violations, unexplained export remittance’ — what CBI says in FIR against NewsClick

In FIR lodged on complaint by MHA undersecretary, CBI says the accused received foreign funding ‘in contravention’ of FCRA norms to ‘infuse opaque foreign funds’ into NewsClick.

In Churachandpur, anger at CBI over Manipur teen deaths arrests. ‘No one told us’, says suspect’s family

Kuki groups ask why 'women & children were arrested from middle of road'. Suspects, whose SIM cards were being tracked, were intercepted & arrested swiftly, it is learnt.

On Camera

Why the Tashkent Declaration was both a moral and semantic victory for Shastri

In his bilateral talks with Ayub Khan, Lal Bahadur Shastri said while India had never accepted the two-nation theory, some elements in Pakistan were bent on making it a ‘two-hostile nation' construct.

2025 marked key point in India’s power sector: Clean energy surge pushed coal power into rare decline

Coal-based power generation fell 3% in 2025 while renewable capacity surged to 40% of India’s installed power mix, according to India Power Sector Review 2025 by CREA.

Bangladesh-Pakistan look to expand ties to defence procurement as Dhaka shows ‘interest’ in JF-17s

Pakistan military said it has assured Bangladesh of fast-tracked delivery of Super Mushshak trainer aircraft during high level defence meet held Tuesday.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.