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09:36 AM, Feb 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday admitted Army Chief General V K Singh's petition on the age row and questioned the manner in which his complaint was rejected by the Defence Ministry. The apex court, while questioning the governments decision, called the manner in which the Chief's statutory complaint was rejected as "vitiated". There were strong words that certainly embarrassed the government. Essentially, the apex court has not questioned...
08:42 PM, Feb 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is all set to hear Army Chief General VK Singh's plea on the age row on Friday. This is the first ever petition by an Army Chief against the government and the court will decide on General VK Singh's plea on his date of birth. Ahead of the hearing, a late night meeting on Thursday, between the Army Chief and Congress trouble-shooter Pranab Mukherjee sparked...
06:21 AM, Feb 03, 2012
President Pratibha Patil interacts with a group of children from across the nation at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. ...
05:27 PM, Jan 26, 2012
All the President's Children has been a CNN-IBN property for a long time. We first did it with President APJ Abdul Kalam in 2007. When the idea was proposed to President Pratibha Patil this year, there was a lot of excitement at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. One thing that President Patil insisted upon was we invite children from across India, from all the strata of society and that we put a...
12:45 PM, Jan 24, 2012
When the idea was proposed to President Pratibha Patil, there was a lot of excitement at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. One thing that President Patil insisted upon was that children from all the strata of society are invited and that there is a particular emphasis on the female child. ...
12:10 PM, Jan 24, 2012
During the shooting of CNN-IBN's Republic Day special show, 'All the President's Children', President Pratibha Patil revealed to the students that she was scared of mathematics when she was in school. Of course, a lot of children knew what she meant and identified with her. Watch the R-Day special show with President Pratibha Patil at 12.30 and 8 pm on Jan 26. ...
10:58 AM, Jan 24, 2012
New Delhi: The first act has played out in the Army Chief General VK Singh versus the government battle over the former's date of birth. A PIL filed by an ex-servicemen association, the Grenadiers Association (Rohtak Chapter), on General VK Singh's age row has been dismissed by the Supreme Court as unmaintainable. The court, passing no judgement on the merits of the case, did say it was a service matter...
08:50 PM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Defence Secretary met Army Chief Gen VK Singh on Wednesday the and is believed to have expressed the government's displeasure at the leak of official communication on the matter related to his age controversy. During the meeting, Defence Secretary Shashikant Sharma reportedly expressed unhappiness over the "unhealthy precedent" set by the head of the force by going to court. The meeting came against the backdrop of unhappiness...
07:27 AM, Jan 19, 2012
New Delhi: Even as his Ministry rattled under the Army Chief's relentless pursuance of the age row, Defence Minister AK Anthony has refused to comment so far. But two days after Army Chief General VK Singh dragged the Government to court, the Ministry, in its first response indicated its strong displeasure. "It sets an unhealthy precedent for the Government and the force," said MoS Defence Pallam Raju. But the spotlight...
08:18 PM, Jan 18, 2012
Sources claimed the government was working out a compromise that could be a face saver to both the sides in the row. ...
07:51 PM, Jan 05, 2012
New Delhi: Army General VK Singh's age row has put the UPA government in a tight spot. Singh is now believed to be seeking legal opinion after the Ministry of Defence rejected his statutory complaint on the age row. The defence ministry on December 30 rejected his statutory complaint seeking a change in his year of birth from 1950 to 1951 in the official records. The controversy has now taken...
09:16 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Lt Gen Avadesh Prakash is the senior-most officer to be court-martialled ever, in one of the worst scams to have hit the Indian Army. ...
10:23 PM, Dec 03, 2011
New Delhi: Former Military Secretary Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash has become the first Lt General to be dismissed from service after he was found guilty on three out of four charges in the Sukna land scam. Lieutenant General Prakash was dismissed after the General Court Martial in Guwahati delivered its verdict on Saturday. The dismissal means he will not get any benefits including pension. However, the court gave Lt Gen...
11:08 AM, Dec 03, 2011
Parents share their experiences and problems when they faced the reality of their child being gay. ...
08:44 PM, Nov 19, 2011
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