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Scholarship scam: Former registrar of private university granted bail
June 14, 2025 11:55 am
The Haryana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) had arrested former registrar of NIILM university Sumesh Kumar Sharma on May 26 this year.
Himachal Pradesh ‘scholarship’ scam: ‘Jail authorities can deal with any medical emergency’
April 09, 2025 2:03 am
CBI court rejects CBI DSP’s bail extension plea
Himachal Pradesh scholarship ‘scam’: CBI arrests its DSP in bribery case involving ED officer
January 21, 2025 5:58 pm
CBI DSP Balbeer Singh was arrested after he was questioned in connection with a bribery case linked to the alleged Himachal Pradesh scholarship scam.
Punjab: AAP stages protest outside CM’s residence over scholarship ‘scam’
June 15, 2021 5:15 am
Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Punjab Assembly, Harpal Singh Cheema, said that the Captain Amarinder Singh-led Congress government had squandered crores of rupees in the scholarships of two lakh Dalit students and jeopardized the future of the students.
Scholarship scam: Assam probe reveals OTPs used to dupe minority students
November 29, 2020 7:19 am
Official records show that the Union Ministry of Minority Affairs, which manages the scholarship scheme, disbursed Rs 161.6 crore to Assam in 2019-20, the second-highest after Rs 246.4 crore to UP. The state received Rs 60.91 crore in 2018-19.
Jharkhand scholarship scam: Aadhaar obtained, account hijacked, and hostel faked
November 02, 2020 4:03 pm
Over the last month, this newspaper tracked 15 schools across six districts in the state and spoke to over 30 students, parents and school authorities to investigate the list of beneficiaries. Here is the second set of cases.
Many ways to dupe a poor student: steal IDs, lie about source of funds, pocket most of it — all officially
November 02, 2020 2:23 pm
An investigation by The Indian Express has found schools fudging data, even changing the religion of students to show them as minorities; many keeping a chunk of the scholarship for themselves.
Direct Benefit Transfer is direct siphoning of school scholarship
November 02, 2020 10:38 am
In several districts of Jharkhand, minority students are being duped of a Centrally funded scholarship by a nexus of bank staff, middlemen, school and govt employees, an investigation by The Indian Express has found
Scholarship 'scam': Official who alleged irregularities shifted
September 29, 2020 12:24 pm
Kripa Shankar Saroj, Additional Chief Secretary, Social Justice, Empowerment and Minorities was transferred to Animal Husbandry Department while Jaspal Singh, who conducted an inquiry into the scam has been named in Saroj's place.
Scholarship scam: PAIC chairman and ex-Cong minister demands sacking of party MLA
September 20, 2020 11:33 pm
Joginder Singh Mann, who is a former legislator from Phagwara, who is a Dalit leader from Doaba Tehaon having maximum percentage of SCs, has shot off letters to Amarinder and general secretary incharge Harish Rawat, and demanded action against Dhaliwal
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