rly recruitment racket: masterminds arrested
New Delhi: CBI has arrested the alleged masterminds of a recruitment racket for fleecing unemployed youths on the pretext of giving them jobs in railways and training for the same using a fake Railway Recruitment Board website. Two prime accused in the case, Naresh Rathi alias Balram Sharma and Akhilesh Kumar alias Sachidanand Jha, were arrested this week from Haryana and Dehradun, respectively, while four members of the gang were nabbed in lucknow last month, CBI sources said here on Thursday. CBI had registered an FIR last month on the complaint of one lalit Verma, who was cheated to the tune of Rs1.50 lakh by the gang.
Health Min to announce Kayakalp scheme today
New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry on Friday will announce a ‘Kayakalp’ scheme under which public health facilities will be awarded based on their performance on various parameters, including sanitation, cleanliness and infection control. Health Minister JP Nadda will launch the scheme and also release ‘Swachchhata’ guidelines for these facilities, as part of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pet project ‘Swachchh Bharat Abhiyan’.
MAini passed crucial records to son: CBI
New Delhi: Arrested bureaucrat JS Maini allegedly passed on minutes of crucial departmental meetings relating to fertiliser cooperative Kribhco to his son who then forwarded it to Norweigian fertiliser firm Yara. CBI sources said the recovery of documents from the laptop of his son shows that he had allegedly forwarded crucial records including minutes of some meetings which helped Yara to swing the proposed joint venture with Kribhco in 2007. Maini, who was then posted in Chemical and Fertilisers Ministry, was also acting as an advisor to Kribhco.