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The Indian Central Bureau of Investigation arrests four people linked to a network of human traffickers who have been luring young men to go to Russia with the promise of jobs or university admission, then forcing them to fight in the war in Ukraine. The Ministry of External Affairs is working with Russia to secure discharges for 20 Indian nationals in the Russian Army.
2024-05-8

India's Central Bureau of Investigation arrests two signal engineers and a technician on charges of culpable homicide and evidence tampering over last month's deadly train collision in Balasore, Odisha.
2023-07-7

A Railway Protection Force officer is killed and another is injured in an attack in Kakapora, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
2022-04-20

Indian senior opposition Rajya Sabha MP and former Cabinet Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram is arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation on charges of corruption and money laundering during his term as Minister of Finance. Chidambaram says to the Supreme Court that the government is practicing a "politically-motivated vendetta" against him and his son Karti, who is also an opposition MP.
2019-08-21

Fifteen countries ask the World Trade Organization a mandate to negotiate binding rules on e-commerce, days after India turned down negotiations.
2017-12-7

A court in the Indian city of Mumbai convicts and sentences Ankur Panwar to the death penalty for a fatal acid-throwing attack.
2016-09-8

Fighting between indigenous tribes and Muslim settlers in Assam, northeast India kills at least 19 people, causing 50,000 people to flee.
2012-07-23

Indian anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare begins a three day fast in protest as legislation creating an anti-corruption watchdog excluding the Central Bureau of Investigation goes before the Parliament of India.
2011-12-27

India's Central Bureau of Investigation raids the homes of former telecommunications minister A. Raja, his family and associates in connection with a corruption scandal.
2010-12-8

A. Raja resigns as the Indian Telecommunications Minister over claims that licenses had been improperly given to mobile phone companies.
2010-11-15