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Corporate angle: Reliance's little-known drone unit Asteria Aerospace faces scrutiny in federal agency's bribery investigation.

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K. Kavitha, daughter of former CM K. Chandrashekar Rao, launches a new political party foregrounding anti-corruption. As another entrant on this plank, can she carve space in Telangana politics?

Key timeline in Tamil Nadu procurement scrutiny:

• DMK Response: Press meet on CBI enquiry targeting ex-minister Senthil Balaji over transformer...

Supreme Court expresses surprise over rodents destroying currency notes seized in a corruption case – a blatant case of evidence mishandling undermining graft probes.

Major blow to Maharashtra transport racket: MP Padole reveals Nagpur RTO vsooli syndicate involving illegal collections and overloading.

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Swift CBI crackdown on local graft: Four officials arrested in two Delhi cases within days.

• MCD Shahdara: Beldar and JE caught taking Rs 5,000 of Rs...

• CBI trap catches senior DGCA official and private firm exec exchanging Rs 2.5 lakh bribe.
• Bribe demanded for drone manufacturing unit license...

• Shocking discrepancy: Seizure memo labeled document as original, but it was a photocopy.
• Suggests intentional swap of manipulated records before...

Electoral roll suspicions mount in West Bengal as 9.1 million names vanish from the 2026 voter list.

Key concerns:

• Routine clean-up, admin failure,...

Serving Lt. Col. alleges corruption in Indian Army, seeks CBI probe; Delhi HC issues notice to Centre. Rare internal military whistleblower push for accountability.

• Key arrest: Yamunanagar police nabbed a HAFED official as the second accused in the Rs 42-cr paddy procurement scam.
• Highlights co-op society fraud in Haryana's procurement process, advancing accountability in local corruption case.

Jhansi's anti-corruption unit nabbed two forest officials for accepting bribes, securing judicial custody from a special magistrate on Saturday. Key step in tackling UP forest department graft.

• No tracking: Supreme Court told Delhi High Court it maintains no judge-specific information on corruption or misconduct complaints.
• RTI pushback:...

Supreme Court strongly criticizes West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee for interfering in ED probe, calling it a threat to democracy and sparking major constitutional controversy.

NCERT withdrew an entire book and issued a public apology after Supreme Court reprimand for a chapter discussing corruption and backlogs in judiciary. A stark case of censorship silencing educational scrutiny of judicial accountability.

Madras High Court petition seeks CBI probe into BJP's NaMo App fund collections, called illegal and deceitful—RTI responses confirm no authorization for govt scheme donations.

Govt's pin-drop silence on CAG's Rs 54,282.32 crore unaccounted expenditure aggravates suspicion and draws political criticism, intensifying national demands for accountability.

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