The Opposition launched a scathing attack on the government which completed its nine years in power on Wednesday. ...
10:29 PM, May 22, 2013
New Delhi: Vinod Rai's tenure as the Comptroller and Auditor General of India ends on Wednesday. Rai's five years in office are seen as controversial given the CAG reports on the coal scam and the 2G spectrum allocation scam. Defence Secretary Shashi Kant Sharma will take charge as the new CAG, but his appointment is already being questioned. Vinod Rai is the man who caused a big embarrassment to the...
11:00 AM, May 22, 2013
New Delhi: The current controversy of IPL spot-fixing isn't new in the long history of controversies faced by the 20-20 format since it started in India. Now as IPL spot-fixing threatens the credibility of Indian cricket itself, it's political masters have gone into silent mode. The IPL commissioner, Union Minister Rajeev Shukla, seen at most IPL matches, gave a quote to a news agency promising strongest possible action against guilty....
10:54 AM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, who is facing allegations of being involved in the cash for jobs scam in the Indian Railways, visited Rail Bhawan on Friday. Bansal has not been attending office for the last two days. He reportedly went to Rail Bhawan on Friday to clear his files. The net is closing in on the Railway Minister following allegations that his family members were involved in...
05:56 PM, May 10, 2013
New Delhi: Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal was seen feeding a goat on Friday, which was reportedly sacrificed later. Many believe that it wards off bad luck and is a widespread practice. Bansal is under fire over a bribery scandal involving his nephew, who received payments from a Railway Board officer in return for a promotion. Vijay Singla, Bansal's nephew, was caught in Chandigarh with the bribe money of Rs...
04:53 PM, May 10, 2013
New Delhi: The Congress has put its weight behind its ministers under fire and has decided that both Union Railway Minister Pawan Bansal and Law Minister Ashwani Kumar are not going to resign just as yet. Sources say the allies are also backing the Congress on both these issues, but the Samajwadi Party is demanding the resignation of Bansal. "When non-Congress officials are caught, they are quickly investigated. But Congress...
12:18 PM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: Decision on Union Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's offer to resign will be taken by Monday morning i.e. after voting ends in Karnataka on Sunday evening and before Parliament resumes on Monday, said sources on Sunday. Bansal had offered to resign after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested his nephew Vijay Singla on Friday evening for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 90 lakh to ensure a...
08:58 AM, May 05, 2013
New Delhi: As Pawan Kumar Bansal meets Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, speculations are rife that the Union Railway Minister might resign over the Railway Board bribery case. The Prime Minister, however, is unlikely to accept his resignation, said sources on Saturday. The Congress has already clarified that Bansal doesn't need to resign over the issue as he has explained his position both to the government and the party. The issue...
01:26 PM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: Attacking the government over the alleged Railway Board bribery case, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday demanded Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's resignation and said the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) should prosecute the Union Minister. The main Opposition party also alleged that because Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi protect their ministers, they indulge in corrupt activities. "This government is no more a common...
11:38 AM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: Sources said on Saturday that the government might ask Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal to explain his role in the bribery case, in which his nephew Vijay Singla was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday. Bansal, however, has claimed that he had no knowledge about the matter. "I had no knowledge or clue about the matter at all. He or any other relative of...
09:14 AM, May 04, 2013
Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Paul had pointed towards the inaction over rising chit fund scams in West Bengal. In the letter dated 2010, the Trinamool Congress MP had asked the Centre to control the growth of ponzi schemes in the state. ...
02:50 PM, Apr 26, 2013
Kolkata: In more embarrassment for the Mamata Banerjee government, another letter written by Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Paul has surfaced which had pointed towards the inaction over rising chit fund scams in West Bengal. In the letter dated 2010, the Trinamool Congress MP had asked the Centre to control the growth of ponzi schemes in the state. CNN-IBN has accessed a copy of the letter written by Paul to then...
06:31 PM, Apr 24, 2013
The BJP parliamentary party has decided that its MPs will continue to press for the PM's and the Law Minister's ouster for allegedly vetting the CBI investigations into coal block allocations. ...
12:40 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Amethi: When Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi interacted with corporate India in the first week of April, there were talks of aspirations and his vision of India but does he actually understand the vision of his constituents in Amethi? CNN-IBN travelled to ground zero in Amethi to understand the mood of the young and the old. Brothers Sandeep and Yogendra sounded extremely bitter. They told us that the absence of...
09:57 PM, Apr 18, 2013
The protesters had clashed with the police after the dead body of a 6-year-old girl was found on Thursday in Aligarh. She had gone missing on Wednesday night. ...
07:20 PM, Apr 18, 2013
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