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LSG Dept Tops Vigilance List for Corruption Cases in Dist

The New Indian Express Kochi

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February 15, 2025

In last 4 months alone, 4 officials of Kochi corp were arrested by VACB for accepting bribes

- TOBY ANTONY @Kochi

The highest number of government officials facing probe in corruption cases belongs to the local self-government department in the district, according to the data available with the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) since 2021.

In the last four months alone, as many as four officials of Kochi corporation were arrested by the VACB for accepting bribes.

As per VACB data, as many as 44 vigilance cases have been registered against government servants in Ernakulam district since 2021. Similarly, in eight cases officials were caught red-handed while accepting bribes. As many as 11 corruption cases were registered against officials of LSG institutions.

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Jemimah lends hand to Mandhana

IN a noble gesture, women’s ODI World Cup winner Jemimah Rodrigues decided to miss the remaining Women’s Big Bash League season in Australia and stay back in India to lend emotional support to her national teammate and good friend Smriti Mandhana.

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November 28, 2025

The New Indian Express Kochi

WHEN A CLEAN-UP BECOMES A MESS

A year ago, the idea of a massive nationwide exercise to visit every single household to verify, add, or delete voters was not on anyone’s radar. After all, the Narendra Modi government did not even conduct the mandatory dec-adal census. Chief Election Commi sioner Gyanesh Kumar took charge in February 2025 and, for three months, did not utter the term ‘special intensive revision’ (SIR). Suddenly, one day in June, the CEC announced a nationwide SIR beginning with Bihar. Why so suddenly and so hastily?

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3 mins

November 28, 2025

The New Indian Express Kochi

Drive to identify illegal foreign nationals in UP, detention camps soon

THE Uttar Pradesh government is launching a large-scale identification drive against illegal immigrants, beginning in western UP’s Rohilkhand region. The operation will cover Bareilly, Badaun, Pilibhit and Shahjahanpur districts under the Bareilly division.

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1 min

November 28, 2025

The New Indian Express Kochi

The New Indian Express Kochi

Punjab village’s stubble management hailed

UNION Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday congratulated Punjab for achieving an 83 percent reduction in stubble-burning cases, calling the state’s progress a model that should be followed across the country. During his visit to several parts of Punjab, he met farmers, reviewed rural development work, and said the state had shown that determined community efforts could bring real change.

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1 mins

November 28, 2025

The New Indian Express Kochi

The New Indian Express Kochi

Assam passes bill banning polygamy; UCC next

THE Assam assembly on Thursday passed a bill to ban polygamy, making it an offence which may lead toa maximum of 10 years of imprisonment, barring some exceptions.

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1 mins

November 28, 2025

The New Indian Express Kochi

Civil servants vital for Viksit Bharat, must operate across sectors: Mishra

CIVIL services stand at the heart of India’s journey towards Viksit Bharat and officers must think across domains, operate across sectors, and anchor their work in humility, integrity, and purpose, P K Mishra, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, said on Thursday.

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1 min

November 28, 2025

The New Indian Express Kochi

The New Indian Express Kochi

Cong Bihar meet sees heated debate over 'selling of tickets, friendly fights'

DISCONTENT within the Bihar Congress surfaced sharply at the party’s first post-election review meeting, where several candidates flagged flaws in ticket allocation, selling of tickets and ‘friendly fights’ between allies as main reasons for the humiliating defeat in the recent Assembly polls.

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1 mins

November 28, 2025

The New Indian Express Kochi

Police raid madrassas, masjids amid concerns over unlawful activities

AFTER an interstate ‘white-collar’ terror module linked to the November 10 Delhi blast was busted, police on Thursday conducted inspection of madrassas and masjids across Srinagar as part of a wider effort to curb unlawful and radical activities in places of worship.

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1 min

November 28, 2025

The New Indian Express Kochi

GROUNDWATER URANIUM NEEDS URGENT MITIGATION

A multi-agency study by Indian researchers published in Nature has found high levels of radioactive uranium-238 in breast-milk samples in Bihar.

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1 mins

November 28, 2025

The New Indian Express Kochi

India's wait to be a $5-tn economy could get longer

IMF says it could take at least one more year than earlier projected to reach the milestone

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1 mins

November 28, 2025

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