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Governments worldwide shield households from rising energy costsNations globally are taking action to protect citizens from rising energy prices. Countries are introducing subsidies, tax cuts and fuel co...
From India to China, a look at what governments worldwide are doing to shield households from rising energy costsGovernments globally are implementing diverse strategies to mitigate soaring energy costs stemming from the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Measu...
SC refuses to quash CBI FIR, chargesheet against Lalu Prasad Yadav in land-for-jobs caseThe Supreme Court has refused to quash the CBI FIR in the land-for-jobs case against Lalu Prasad Yadav and his family. While granting the 7...
NSE Co-lo Scam: Delhi HC seeks Government, CBI response on Chitra Ramkrishna's fresh pleaRamkrishna, who headed the NSE between 2013 and 2016, has been charged with illegal gratification through abuse of position and criminal co...
SC to hear on Nov 20 plea against prior approval to probe govt official for corruptionThe Supreme Court of India will hear arguments on November 20 regarding a plea challenging the constitutional validity of a provision in th...
Prevention of Corruption Act: No reason for not taking bold decisions nowThe amended Prevention of Corruption Act will prove to be transformational and a game changer. Government servants have no excuses now.
'Tainted' officials lose anti-prosecution shield when transferred: SCThe shield to protect the bureaucracy from malicious prosecution and help them take bold decisions will no longer be available to officers ...
Coal scam: Court says sanction to prosecute deemed to be grantedThe failure of competent authority to take a decision on CBI's request for according sanction to prosecute two senior public servants in co...
- Coal scam: Nod to prosecute two govt servants awaited, says CBI
The CBI today told a special court that they have not yet received communication from Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) on the is...
Coalscam: Sanction to prosecute government servants awaited, says CBIThe CBI was earlier directed by the court to further probe the matter in which it had filed a charge sheet against NPPL, its Managing Direc...
Protection to public servant in corruption case is not illegal: Supreme CourtThe apex court held mere possibility of abuse cannot be a ground to declare a provision, otherwise valid, to be unconstitutional.
Govt sanction is mandatory to probe public servant: Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court held that a Magistrate cannot order probe against a public servant in a corruption complaint if there is no sanction give...
- Illegal property of corrupt public servants to be confiscated
Property illegally acquired by a corrupt public servant will be confiscated and a time line has been set for securing sanction to prosecute...
- RS panel for power to Lokpal to sanction prosecution
The constitutional protection available to civil servants under Articles 311 and 320, clause 3(C) of the Constitution would also be adverse...
Corrupt PSU babus too may get 'sanction shield'The protective cover of government's permission to chargesheet a public servant for corruption could be extended to those on deputation to ...
- Public servants can be prosecuted without prior sanction: SC
SC has said that the public servants can face prosecution without prior sanction of authorities as all their acts in the purported discharg...
- Remove sanction clause to prosecute leaders: PIL
A PIL has been moved in the Supreme Court seeking to dispense with the statutory provision mandating prior sanction of competent authoritie...