The Hindu Morning Digest, March 23, 2024

The Hindu Morning Digest, March 23, 2024

People lay flowers and lit candles in memory of the Moscow concert gun attack victims in the center of Simferopol, Crimea, on March 22, 2024. Gunmen opened fire at a Moscow concert hall on March 22, 2024 killing at least 40 people, wounding more than 100 and sparking an inferno, authorities said, with the Islamic … Read more

ED questions Lalu Prasad’s daughter Ragini in land-for-jobs in railways scam

ED questions Lalu Prasad’s daughter Ragini in land-for-jobs in railways scam

 The ED, after the searches, said it seized “unaccounted cash” of ₹1 crore and detected proceeds of crime worth ₹600 crore. | Photo Credit: PTI The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday recorded the statement of RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s daughter Ragini Yadav in a money laundering case linked to the alleged land-for-jobs in railways scam, … Read more

CBI officials misbehaved with Rabri Devi : RJD

CBI officials misbehaved with Rabri Devi : RJD

Patna: Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal in Bihar on Friday accused CBI officials of “misbehaviour” and using “unparliamentary language” while interrogating Rabri Devi, a former chief minister and the wife of the party’s national president Lalu Prasad. A CBI team had early in the morning raided the 10, Circular Road residence of Rabri Devi who has … Read more

More drama in Lalu family as Tej Pratap ‘shifts’ to Rabri Devi residence

More drama in Lalu family as Tej Pratap ‘shifts’ to Rabri Devi residence

Turmoil in RJD president Lalu Prasad‘s family over the theatrics of his mercurial elder son Tej Pratap Yadav seems far from over. The legislator visited the residence of mother Rabri Devi on Tuesday evening, spent the night at her place and, according to party sources, announced that he will henceforth not be living at the … Read more

Bihar politicos grow weary of Tej Pratap’s tantrums

Bihar politicos grow weary of Tej Pratap’s tantrums

The political fraternity in Bihar, cutting across party lines, on Tuesday seemed unimpressed with the latest rhetoric of Lalu Prasad‘s elder son Tej Pratap Yadav, who has announced on Twitter that he will tender his “resignation”. Tej Pratap’s younger brother Tejashwi, who is running the party in their father’s absence, reacted with uncharacteristic exasperation when … Read more

Jharkhand HC grants bail to RJD Supremo Lalu Prasad in Doranda treasury case

Jharkhand HC grants bail to RJD Supremo Lalu Prasad in Doranda treasury case

Jharkhand High Court on Friday granted bail to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad in the Doranda Treasury Case in which a CBI special court had sentenced him to five years in prison. 73-year-old Prasad is in custody following his conviction and sentencing by a CBI court in February in a fodder scam case … Read more

CBI court awards five years’ jail to Lalu Prasad in 5th case

CBI court awards five years’ jail to Lalu Prasad in 5th case

A special CBI court on Monday sentenced RJD president Lalu Prasad to five years imprisonment in the fifth and final case in the fodder scam. The court also imposed a fine of ₹60 lakh on him. The case relates to withdrawals from Doranda treasury during his tenure as chief minister of undivided Bihar. Prasad has … Read more

Out of jail, Lalu Prasad holds first ‘virtual’ interaction with party workers

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Rashtriya Janata Dal founding president Lalu Prasad, who is out on bail after spending more than three years behind bars, on Sunday held a much-awaited “virtual interaction” with workers of his party back home in Bihar. Prasad, who recently walked out of a jail in Ranchi after the Jharkhand High Court granted him bails in … Read more

Did nothing for women apart from installing wife on chair when himself got jailed: Nitish attacks Lalu

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Khagaria: Attacking Opposition RJD, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Friday appealed to people to not “get misled” by those who “ignored” women and backward classes during their rule. Addressing an election rally at Parbatta here, he said, “They are talking today, but how was the condition of women earlier? They were ignored, nobody paid attention … Read more

Lalu Prasad | fodder scam case: Lalu Prasad gets bail in a fodder scam case, but to remain in jail

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Ranchi: The Jharkhand High Court on Friday granted bail to former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad in a fodder scam case related to Chaibasa treasury. The case involves fraudulent withdrawals amounting to Rs 33.67 crore from the Chaibasa treasury in undivided Bihar, when Lalu Prasad was the chief minister. The RJD chief, however, will have … Read more