The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered transfer of the Vyapam probe to the Central Bureau of Investigation in view of series of deaths reportedly related to the case. Most of the witnesses in the Vyapam scam were found dead in mysterious circumstance raising hue and cry all over the country at what was termed as a major derailing move to ...

Karnataka Chief Minister K. Siddaramaiah, who was scheduled to release the state CID report into the death of firebrand IAS officer D.K. Ravi, refrained from it at the last minute in view of the state high court order and instead announced handing over the case to CBI for investigation on Monday. This has Sonia Gandhi’s advice to consider the demand ...

The 71-year-old nun who was raped by a gang of bandits inside a convent in West Bengal’s Nadia district was on Friday discharged from the hospital, an official said. The sister superior of the Convent of Jesus and Mary in Ranaghat was hospitalised on March 14 with serious injuries after she was brutalised by the gang, who also looted the ...

  The controversy surrounding the mysterious death of IAS officer D.K. Ravi took on a stronger political turn with the BJP seizing the opportunity to embarrass the Karnataka government demanding a CBI probe while the other opposition party Janata Dal (S) too joined the row as the victim’s father-in-law was its member. Home Minister Rajnath Singh said in the Lok ...

Finally, Karnataka IAS officers too join an NGO’s online petition to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and the PM Narendra Modi to demand a CBI probe, despite the fact the vital evidence is lost in the case. The mysterious death of upright IAS officer D K Ravi Kumar, who rose to fame subduing the sand mafia and taking cudgels with local legislator, ...

D.K. Ravi Kumar’s death, purportedly by committing suicide, is a telling reason why the higher echelons of the country should overhaul the Indian Administrative Service or Indian Police Service, as they cannot ensure their independence and safety any more. The hype around the IAS was created on the lines of ICS that was reminiscent of the colonial masters’ tool to ...

Janata Dal (Secular) leader HD Kumaraswamy came out in the open to accuse the chief minister of Karnataka and his bete noir on Wednesday for visiting the place where post-mortem of the deceased IAS officer D.K.Ravi Kumar’s body took place. “The way our Chief Minister visited the place where post mortem was conducted, (prompts) people feel that he went there ...

After the autopsy report of Sunanda Pushkar, Shashi Tharoor’s wife, came out, the medical team concluded on Thursday that Pushkar died of poisoning. But, Pushkar’s cousin alleged that the death was planned. While the latest post-mortem report submitted by AIIMS claimed that Sunanda died due to “poisoning,” her cousin, Ashok Kumar, said that he was aware that her death was ...