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The Punjab and Haryana High Court on October 5 ordered the CBI to register an FIR and probe alleged cash-for-transfers corruption linked to the Chief Minister's OSD, after Punjab Police failed to act on three ED letters. Report in two months.
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Singapore referred eight civil servants to the police after a US paper alleged S$270 million of property buys near planned MRT stations before announcement. Minister Chan Chun Sing said the referral does not establish wrongdoing; 191 officials' 2007-2014 transactions were reviewed.
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One Punjab MLA wept on camera about empty classrooms and was suspended. One CM's aide allegedly ran a transfer-posting racket and is defended. Power attacks truth-tellers and shelters fixers.
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Punjab will urgently approach the Supreme Court against the High Court order directing the CBI to probe ED allegations that CM Bhagwant Mann's OSD ran a transfer-posting and tender racket, with a report due in two months.
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On bypoll eve, AMMK chief TTV Dhinakaran called the TVK government 'a curse for Tamil Nadu' and demanded EC action against MLAs who resign months after winning to force by-elections. He alleged CM Vijay lured some 25 AIADMK MLAs with promises.
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On the eve of polling, DMK leader Senthil Balaji posted photographs alleging that TVK workers are distributing sarees and lamps and serving biryani to Dharapuram voters. CPI and CPI(M) have separately raised cash-for-vote charges against the ruling TVK ahead of the October 6 bypolls.
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Justice A. Badharudeen asked why PSC members were refusing to cooperate with the Crime Branch probe into unevaluated answer scripts in the State Planning Board recruitment exam, reminding the constitutional body that public employment is the hope of lakhs of young people.
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In its first months in office, the TVK government has repeatedly issued orders, then withdrawn or diluted them after backlash. The RTI exemption for the Law and Order department lasted six days; a student-protest directive was dropped; a Chief Minister's office appointment was cancelled.
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On September 21, the TVK government quietly exempted the department that investigates police firings, custodial deaths and police torture from the RTI Act. Six days later, under fire, it revoked the order. The revocation was forced; the instinct was not. That instinct is the story.
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Campaigning for the October 6 bypolls in Dharapuram and Madurantakam ended at 6 pm on Sunday, closing with a 40-km Chief Minister roadshow. The bypolls were forced by the TVK's own MLA poaching — and the Election Commission's inquiry into September's cash-for-votes allegations remains open.
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Canada coach Jesse Marsch has said Manchester City should be 'punished severely' and relegated after an independent commission found the club guilty of 114 financial breaches, claiming the inflated spending was an open secret across the Premier League.
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Hours before polling in Madurantakam and Dharapuram, the AIADMK has petitioned the Election Commission for a probe into alleged TVK cash distribution, while the NTK's Dharapuram candidate showed photos she says capture tiffin boxes, Rs 6,000 cash, silver coins and a 'Victory Cup' for voters.
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The Keralam government has received a legal opinion that there is no legal bar to prosecuting CEC Gyanesh Kumar for abetment to suicide in the 2006 death of Malaysian engineer Lee See Been. The Home Minister has ordered a fresh Vigilance probe into the case.
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Opinion: Murugumaran quit the AIADMK accusing it of favouring wealthy candidates, then joined the TVK, whose Dharapuram bypoll exists because it poached two sitting MLAs. When mandates are purchased, not persuaded, the election is an auction.
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A Karnataka SIT has filed a 22,000-page charge sheet naming former BJP MLA Subhash Guttedar, his son and five others in an alleged racket to delete 5,994 voters' names in Aland during the 2023 elections, while a special court granted the accused anticipatory bail.
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Karnataka's chief electoral officer has ordered criminal action over bulk Form 7 voter-deletion applications -- many with faked death certificates -- after the CM alleged a BJP-JD(S) conspiracy to delete 45 lakh voters, mostly minorities and Dalits.
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Tiffin boxes, Rs 6,000 in cash, silver coins, a 'Victory Cup': the allegations flying over Dharapuram reveal a democracy where the vote is auctioned to the highest bidder -- and bought loyalty is loyalty owed.
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An officer takes a bribe, is suspended, and then nothing happens for years while the taxpayer funds his subsistence allowance. The Madurai Bench has diagnosed the disease; this opinion asks who keeps delaying the cure.
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Government servants in bribery and corruption cases can no longer stall suspension or disciplinary action by citing a pending criminal trial, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has ruled, ordering six-month deadlines and service-rule amendments.
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Kerala Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala on Sunday ordered a fresh VACB inquiry into allegations against CEC Gyanesh Kumar from his 2006 tenure as PWD Secretary — reviving a two-decade-old case around a Malaysian engineer's death and claims the original probe was derailed by outside pressure.
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Former TN school education minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi has asked the Madras High Court to quash the FIR against him in the alleged ₹100-crore private-school approval scam, arguing only the Governor could sanction his prosecution — and calling the case 'regime revenge'.
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The TVK arrived promising to cleanse Tamil Nadu politics — a 'corruption-free', 'pure' force. Six months on, broken waiver promises, a manufactured bypoll, black flags on the Loop Road and a 'corporate mafia' charge from the opposition suggest the slogans are not governing the state.
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DMK president M.K. Stalin on Saturday alleged that a 'corporate mafia government' was ruling Tamil Nadu, warning that the TVK's 'real face' would soon be exposed — including, he claimed, a 'secret alliance' with the BJP at the Centre, days before the October 6 bypolls.
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BRS leader Manne Krishank has demanded an Enforcement Directorate investigation into Telangana CM A. Revanth Reddy's family assets, alleging links to Maxbien Pharma and Medicover Hospitals and claiming Rs 13,000 crore of black money was laundered through related transactions.
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A court in Istanbul has remanded Ferhat Gundogdu, the head of Turkey's Central Referees Committee, and four others in custody pending trial on charges including forgery and breach of trust — the latest blow to Turkish football, a year after 149 referees were suspended over illegal betting.
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When the Left parties that prop up the TVK government accuse it of leading cash-for-votes, the "pure force" promise dies in daylight. The problem is not one party; it is a democracy where a vote has a price and the poor are always the sellers.
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CPI(M) state secretary P. Shanmugam alleged the TVK distributed the most money among all parties in Madurantakam and Dharapuram, and demanded EC action. The AIADMK has separately petitioned the Commission over alleged cash distribution for the TVK candidate.
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Two days before Brazil's election, the Banco Master fraud has engulfed both camps: documents tie frontrunner Flávio Bolsonaro to $12M in banker funds for a family biopic, while a police report links Justice Moraes to the banker's circle. Dead-heat polls; an October 25 runoff looks certain.
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