Lucknow: There seems to be a scam a day in Uttar Pradesh. After a toilet scam, an elephant statue scam, now a tree scam has emerged. The Akhilesh Yadav government has ordered a probe into why 37,000 date saplings and palm trees were imported at 16 times their original price under the Mayawati regime. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has been calling it vendetta politics. It is an all out...
08:13 AM, May 17, 2012
Lucknow: Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati is facing the heat in the Noida Farmhouse scheme launched in 2010. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has ordered an investigation into the farmhouse scheme by Noida Development Authority Chairman Rakesh Bahadur. The scheme allegedly led to a loss of Rs 150 crore to the state's exchequer. The allegation is that the land was bought from farmers for industrial use, but sold ...
01:27 PM, May 15, 2012
Lucknow: Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati is facing the heat in the Noida Farmhouse scheme launched in 2010. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has ordered an investigation into the farmhouse scheme by Noida Development Authority Chairman Rakesh Bahadur. The scheme allegedly led to a loss of Rs 150 crore to the state's exchequer. The allegation is that the land was bought from farmers for industrial use, but sold...
01:27 PM, May 15, 2012
Lucknow: There is major trouble brewing for former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati as the Akhilesh Yadav government has decided to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe corruption in the construction of parks in the state. The Uttar Pradesh police will form an SIT to investigate the scam in the building of Ambedkar parks in Lucknow and Noida. The police on Monday also lodged an FIR against...
09:34 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Security is expected to clear a major air force requirement for a basic trainer. The lack of a basic trainer since 2009 has seriously setback pilot training. Although the Swiss Pilatus was selected last year, a competing Korean aircraft maker objected setting off a vicious dogfight. Which Air Force has the dubious distinction of crashing 55 per cent of its frontline MiG fleet -...
06:38 PM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: The DMK on Saturday openly pitched for Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee as the next President with party chief M Karunanidhi clearly saying he will back Mukherjee if the Congress decides to nominate him. So far, the battle for the President's seat has largely been between two individuals, Vice President Hamid Ansari and Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. However, with the DMK openly batting for Pranab Mukherjee, the...
03:13 PM, May 05, 2012
Dear Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar Let me at the outset say that I look at myself as one of your biggest fans, just like the ...
01:31 PM, Apr 27, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has taken the full responsibility for the defeat of the Congress party in the Delhi civic polls, but has maintained that the result is not a referendum on her. Speaking exclusively to CNN-IBN's Bhupendra Chaubey, the Delhi Chief Minister refused to accept that the results were a huge setback for the party. Heres an excerpt of the interview: Bhupendra Chaubey: A day after...
06:30 PM, Apr 18, 2012
New Delhi: Another election, another defeat for the Congress! The only silver lining for the party, well it couldn't get worse. The grand old party, which has been in power in Delhi since 1998, would be hoping that Delhiites have given vent to their anger at the MCD level. Good, we now have a better chance at the Assembly level, when the level of anger would have reduced. But these...
04:13 PM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: There could be a major embarrasement ahead for BJP President Nitin Gadkari. CNN-IBN has accessed a copy of a CAG report which points to a loss of over Rs 1,000 crore in Chhattisgarh, just because the BJP government in the state decided to award a coal block to a key Gadkari aide - Ajay Sancheti - someone who has just become a Rajya Sabha MP on a BJP...
06:37 AM, Apr 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission (EC) has cancelled the Jharkhand Rajya Sabha election. The panel on Friday countermanded the polls after rampant horsetrading and recovery of crores of rupees. The income tax department seized over Rs 2 crore from a candidate's car and raided three candidates. "The Commission is satisfied that the current election process for Rajya Sabha election from Jharkhand has been seriously vitiated and cannot be permitted to...
11:38 PM, Mar 30, 2012
RJD chief Laloo Prasad Yadav has dismissed the talks of possible mid-term polls as speculation. ...
04:01 PM, Mar 12, 2012
Lucknow: While the Congress and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) do their post mortems after teh Uttar Pradesh Assembly Poll results, the focus in Lucknow is on who will be the next chief minister - Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav or his son Akhilesh Yadav? The party is yet to decide on the chief minister in its forthcoming parliamentary board meeting after Holi. A day after the landslide verdict, top...
10:25 PM, Mar 07, 2012
New Delhi: International Olympic Committee has written to the Sports Ministry saying it cannot drop Dow Chemicals as a sponsor of the London Olympics 2012. In its letter accessed by CNN-IBN, IOC said, "Dow had nothing to do with Union Carbide when the Bhopal gas leak happened." "Indian Supreme Court itself has reviewed the case involving Dow several times," it added. The Sports Ministry had written to the IOC last...
08:55 PM, Mar 07, 2012
Lucknow: While the Samajwadi Party celebrated a landslide victory in the Uttar Pradesh polls on Tuesday, the family of 7-year-old Daan-e-alam, who died, is in a state of shock. Hours after a historic Uttar Pradesh polls verdict history unfolded yet again. The pictures of stone pelting at journalists, allegedly by Samajwadi Party workers in Jhansi, a child dying after celebratory fire was opened by a SP MLA, indicative of the...
06:10 AM, Mar 07, 2012
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