Jhiram Ghati Attack: 10 convicts sentenced to death 13 years after Maoists killed 29
Thirteen years after Maoists killed 29 people in the Jhiram Ghati ambush on a Congress convoy in Bastar, a special NIA court in Jagdalpur sentenced 10 convicts to death. Among those killed were Nand Kumar Patel, Mahendra Karma and VC Shukla.
Petrol Pumps threaten to block UPI payments above Rs 2,000 over Rs 5 extra charge
Petrol pump dealers across India threaten to stop UPI payments of Rs 2000+ and switch to cash if Rs 5 MDR is imposed. FAIPT, AIPDA seek exemption citing wafer-thin margins of Rs 2.40-3.40/litre fixed by OMCs.
Rahul Gandhi targets PM Modi over UPI fee: ‘Please stop lying down in front of the US’
Accusing the government of giving Indian taxpayers’ money to the United States, Rahul said the prime minister should “have a spine” and “take back the UPI tax.”
Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Dhami celebrates birthday with disabled children, gets emotional
Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami celebrated his birthday on Wednesday with children with disabilities at the National Institute for the Empowerment of Persons with Visual Disabilities in Dehradun.
Delhi HC reserves order on YouTuber Ajeet Bharti’s anticipatory bail plea in casteist remarks case
During the hearing, Justice Saurabh Banerjee observed that Bharti should have been more careful while making the comments, particularly when provisions of a special law were involved.
BJP slams Rahul Gandhi over remarks on UPI fee: ‘No talk of nation building’
Scindia said that there is no recommendation to levy charges on the customer and doing so would violate the law and amount to a criminal offence.
Aaditya Thackeray denies link to Disha Salian death after CBI names him in FIR, says ‘never met’
Aaditya Thackeray, leader of Shiv Sena UBT, denies any connection to Disha Salian’s death. This follows the CBI naming him in an FIR filed under murder and conspiracy sections, based on an order from the Bombay High Court.
Inmate convicted of triple murder in small Texas town set for execution
LeJames Norman would become the fifth inmate put to death by the state this year barring a U.S. Supreme Court reprieve. His codefendant is scheduled for execution a week later.
Mike Morath wanted Texas to reach No. 1 in education. Test scores show there’s more work to do.
Appointed a decade ago, the education commissioner insists that when he has direct oversight, academic gains follow. His critics await better student outcomes.
‘Worse than Watergate’ New FBI files detail agent’s push to join Trump probe, investigate Elon Musk
Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, released a batch of unclassified emails between FBI agents stemming from Operation Crossfire Hurricane, a Justice Department investigation launched during the Obama administration into whether then-presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign was colluding with Russia during the 2016 election. Grassley argued that the email exchanges, which included former FBI Special Agent Kevin Gounaud seeking to open an investigation into Elon Musk over the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), revealed that the “Deep State” was at work to undermine Trump. “The previous Democrat administrations under Obama and Biden conducted secret, insidious and downright evil operations that almost took down our government,” Grassley said during an Oversight hearing with FBI Director Kash Patel. “That’s arguably worse than Watergate.” DAN BONGINO REVEALS HE FOUND ‘MOTHER LODE’ OF SECRET RUSSIAGATE FILES INSIDE FBI BURN BAGS Over the past decade, the Senate Judiciary Committee, at the direction of Grassley, has released several rounds of documents from a few FBI operations such as Operation Arctic Frost and Round River, alleging that the Justice Department was being weaponized against Trump and Republicans. “The overall sustained efforts by the Deep State in the dark corners of the bureaucracy is worse than anything Trump has been accused of. At least he’s upfront and open so people can judge,” Grassley said. At the center of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s most recent document release are three former FBI agents: Gounaud, Walter Giardina, who was fired by Patel in August over accusations of political weaponization, and Timothy Thibault. Gounaud, who left the bureau in February, according to his LinkedIn, sent an email in February 2025 seeking to begin a criminal investigation of Musk. At the time, Musk was a special government employee overseeing DOGE. Gounaud’s complaint centered on Musk announcing on X his plan to have all government employees share five things they worked on that day. “Musk used a non government system (twitter) to relate information that allegedly was for official purposes. In doing so, because he is monetized (he is a majority owner of twitter) he likely generated income for himself based on Twitter’s monetization model and/or advertising revenues,” Gounaud wrote. “His use of twitter in this and other instances is conceptually similar to Hillary Clinton’s misuse of a private email server for government business.” Grassley later criticized the former FBI agent in a post on X. JACK SMITH’S SENATE PHONE RECORDS PROBE TURNS TO VERIZON’S HANDLING OF SUBPOENAS “Here is an email I released 2day showing an FBI agent who was ready2 open a CRIMINAL CASE all bc Elon Musk asked govt bureaucrats 2 report 5 things they did in a wk,” Grassley wrote. “Compare that 2 Iowans who work frm sunup to sundown EVERY DAY Washington rlly is an island surrounded by reality.” The document dump also shows that Giardina emailed at least seven times over the course of four weeks beginning in January 2017 asking to be assigned to Crossfire Hurricane. The findings of the investigation were handed off to special counsel Robert Mueller a few months later in May. SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER The emails show that Giardina was in correspondence with Thibault, who Grassley had accused of violating the Hatch Act. The allegation, which was investigated and dismissed by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC), stemmed from Thibault resharing a post on then Twitter by the Lincoln Project, which called Trump a “psychologically broken, embittered, and deeply unhappy man.” Thibault is included in several emails sent by Giardina to former Supervising Agent Joe Pientka. “Based on the records known to date, that case didn’t advance,” Grassley said. “His efforts, as well as the case he tried to open on Senator Sinema, undercut public statements by former FBI officials that agents don’t get to pick their cases.” Fox News Digital reached out to the FBI for comment.