A large group of inmates from Kathmandu's Dillibazar Jail stepped out of the prison premises on Wednesday, demanding their release amid the ongoing unrest triggered by nationwide anti-corruption protests.
Protests erupted outside Kathmandu Parliament against Nepal's ban on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, turning violent as police fired on demonstrators. Nine people died, and protestors vandalised the Parliament gate, with witnesses accusing authorities of indiscriminate firing and suppress
The sleuths of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption of Assam police caught a government employee red-handed while he accepted a bribe of Rs 5000 from a person in his office in Guwahati, officials said.
A massive timber scam worth PKR 1.7 billion in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has been uncovered by relevant authorities, seizing approximately 2.3 million cubic feet of illegally cut wood, Geo News reported, citing a report by The News.
A CBI anti-corruption court in Ghaziabad has convicted and sentenced a recovery agent of Punjab National Bank to 23 months' imprisonment with a fine of Rs. 10,000 in a bribery case.
The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) has arrested Bhivamtej Singla, Assistant Jail Superintendent of Maximum Security Jail, Nabha, on charges of accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000.
"All the corrupt dynasts have started running away. They have realised that a major impact of this would be on INDI Alliance parties," Adhikari said while speaking to ANI.
BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain reacted to Amit Shah's remarks by accusing Rahul Gandhi of double standards on corruption and alliances. Hussain criticised Gandhi's changing stance on Lalu Yadav and defended the anti-corruption bill's aim to bar jailed leaders from office.
The Congress leader said that the amendment being touted as an anti-corruption measure is just a "veil over the eyes of people," claiming that a Chief Minister could be arrested on fabricated charges and be removed from their post after 30 days without a conviction if the bill is passed.<
Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah, a senior professor and analyst, was arrested by Bangladesh police on corruption charges filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission. A court has ordered him to be sent to jail.