The goal of the paper is to deliberate conformal Ricci soliton and *-conformal Ricci soliton within the framework of paracontact geometry. Here we prove that if an ?-Einstein para-Kenmotsu manifold admits conformal Ricci soliton and *-conformal Ricci soliton, then it is Einstein. Further we have shown that 3-dimensional para-cosymplectic manifold is Ricci flat if the manifold satisfies conformal Ricci soliton where the soliton vector field is conformal. We have also constructed some examples of para-Kenmotsu manifold that admits conformal and *-conformal Ricci soliton and verify our results.

In this article, a Ricci soliton and *-conformal Ricci soliton are examined in the framework of trans-Sasakian three-manifold. In the beginning of the paper, it is shown that a three-dimensional trans-Sasakian manifold of type $(\alpha ,\beta )$ admits a Ricci soliton where the covariant derivative of potential vector field V in the direction of unit vector field $\xi$ is orthogonal to $\xi$. It is also demonstrated that if the structure functions meet ${\alpha }^2={\beta }^2$, then the covariant derivative of V in the direction of $\xi$ is a constant multiple of $\xi$. Furthermore, the nature of scalar curvature is evolved when the manifold of type $(\alpha ,\beta )$ satisfies *-conformal Ricci soliton, provided $\alpha \ne 0$. Finally, an example is presented to verify the findings.

The aim of the present paper is to study the critical point equation (shortly CPE) conjecture within the framework of various contact metric manifolds. First we establish that Kenmotsu manifold satisfying the CPE either becomes an Einstein manifold or the derivative of potential function along characteristic vector field satisfy a certain relation on the distribution of η. Next we study CPE on (κ, μ)'-almost Kenmotsu manifold and obtain that the manifold is Einstein. Later in case of 3-dimensional trans-Sasakian manifold, we get that either the manifold becomes α-Sasakian or it becomes Einstein. Finally we give examples of 3-dimensional trans-Sasakian manifold and (κ ,μ)'-almost Kenmotsu manifold to verify our outcomes.