VVIP Culture
04 Mar 2018
The vehicles of India's top constitutional authorities - the President, Vice President, Governors and L-Gs, will soon have to display their registration numbers.
19 Feb 2018
The Gupta brothers - Ajay, Rajesh, and Atul - who are currently under investigation in South Africa over their ties with President Zuma, currently enjoy Z category security in Uttarakhand. Zuma recently resigned on 15th February amid a bunch of corruption allegations
31 Jan 2018
In 2015, Rahul Gandhi took on Narendra Modi's "suit-boot ki sarkar." Three years later, the tag is back, but this time for Gandhi himself.
08 Jan 2018
Former-presidents Pratibha Patil and Pranab Mukherjee as well as former-PMs Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh may soon have to vacate their official residences in Delhi.
06 Jan 2018
Vehicles of President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu, and other constitutional authorities like Governors and Lieutenant-Governors will display registration-numbers and not the State Emblem of India, said government.
27 Dec 2017
India's Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) paramilitary force has requested the government not to stop it from conducting VIP duties.
24 Dec 2017
After getting convicted in the fodder scam case by a special CBI court on Saturday, RJD chief and former Bihar CM Lalu Prasad Yadav was put in the same upper division jail cell where he stayed after his 2013 conviction.
28 Nov 2017
Recently, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav created a ruckus after the Centre decided to downgrade his Z+ VIP security. His son Tej Pratap also threatened to skin PM Narendra Modi.
23 Nov 2017
A video of a woman shouting at Union Tourism Minister KJ Alphons at the Imphal airport has gone viral.
21 Nov 2017
Once again, Karnataka CM Siddaramaih has managed to display his VIP mentality when his convoy blocked an ambulance, forcing a patient to walk to the hospital.
08 Oct 2017
Indian Railways has intensified its fight against VIP culture. In an unprecedented move, it has scrapped a 36-year-old protocol that requires general managers to be present at the airport when railway board members are arriving or departing from regional visits.
21 Aug 2017
In a major development, CCTV footage has surfaced purportedly showing VK Sasikala and her relative Ilavarasi, both in civilian clothes, walking into the Bengaluru jail she is lodged in, in the presence of guards.
17 Jul 2017
DIG (Prisons) D. Roopa, who outed the ongoing corruption in the Bengaluru Central jail, has been transferred to traffic and road safety department by the Karnataka government.
14 Jul 2017
After reports of AIADMK general secretary VK Sasikala getting VIP treatment in Parappana Agrahara jail surfaced, Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah ordered a high-level inquiry on Thursday.
13 Jul 2017
Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah ordered high level probe into allegations of AIADMK general secretary VK Sasikala, who is currently in Parappana Agrahara central jail, paying a bribe of Rs. 2 crore to prison's department officials.
05 Jul 2017
UP CM Yogi Adityanath has refused to have a Mercedes, a second SUV, in his fleet.
23 Jun 2017
A Delhi-based firm paid Rs. 16 lakh to the transport department for a vanity plate bearing car registration number '0001' in an e-auction last week.
21 Jun 2017
As the convoy of Indian President Pranab Mukherjee approached the Trinity Circle in Bengaluru, traffic sub-inspector ML Nijalingappa spotted an ambulance making its way towards the junction from another road.
18 Jun 2017
In the city to inaugurate Bengaluru's Namma metro, India's President Pranab Mukherjee broke away with the typical trend of sticking and living up to VVIP symbol.
24 May 2017
Keeping in mind PM Modi's statement, "In the New India concept, instead of VIP, there has to be EIP or Every Person is Important," NDA government has been taking stringent measures to get rid of deadwood within its ranks to facilitate better governance.
23 May 2017
After media raised questions on security provided to Robert Vadra's mother Maureen, Delhi Police have withdrawn her cover, along with that of 12 other people.
17 May 2017
Times Now reported that Robert Vadra's mother's security cover has been withdrawn by the Modi government.
02 May 2017
As red beacons go off cars from May 1, netas in Madhya Pradesh and Telangana have brought out sirens instead.
27 Apr 2017
A week after the central government banned beacons on vehicles to curb VIP culture, a vehicle carrying the body of one of the Sukma martyrs was halted to make way for CM Nitish Kumar's convoy.
25 Apr 2017
Multiplexes and restaurants in Bengaluru have been directed by a consumer court to provide clean drinking water to their customers for free.
19 Apr 2017
The government has banned use of red beacons from May 1: only five dignitaries - the president, prime minister, vice-president, chief justice and Lok Sabha speaker - will be exempted.
