Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee tabled white paper on black money in Parliament on Monday. ...
09:52 PM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: Cartoons making fun of political leaders is certainly no laughing matter. The toons finding their way into textbooks came under all-round attack in Lok Sabha on Monday, prompting the government to promise an inquiry into the role of NCERT officials and ensure there are no recurrences. A controversy that began with a cartoon of B R Ambedkar is now threatening to take the scalp of Human Resource Development...
10:02 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: There were fresh fireworks over the Aircel-Maxis deal in Parliament on Monday as the government dismissed Opposition charges of delay in clearing investment by Aircel-Maxis in 2006 during the tenure of P Chidambaram as Finance Minister. An emotional Home Minister also clarified saying yet again that his family was not directly or indirectly related to the controversial deal and that he was ready for a probe. Chidambaram mounted...
08:32 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: The picture appears to be clearing up for the Congress veteran and Union Finance Minister with DMK clearly saying that if Pranab Mukherjee is the Congress' choice for the next President, they will back him. The NCP says that Pranab may be their best choice despite Sharad Pawar appearing reluctant. Pranab's case has been bolstered by the fact that the Samajwadi Party has already hinted that the President...
07:46 PM, May 05, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP has rejected the Congress efforts to bring in either Finance Minister Pranab Mujherjee or and vice President Hamid Ansari for the post of President. In its first open declaration on the issue, the BJP said it will back former president APJ Abdul Kalam or support an apolitical candidate backed by Trinamool Congress (TMC) Chief Mamata Bannerjee and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Sharad Pawar. BJP leader...
06:33 AM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: As the Congress tries to build a consensus over the Presidential candidate, the BJP on Monday made its stand clear, ruling out support for any Congress candidate including Pranab Mukherjee and Hamid Ansari. While the Congress is yet to take a firm decision, the BJP has already rejected the two names of Pranab and Vice President Hamid Ansari, sensing that the UPA may find it difficult to convince...
08:35 PM, Apr 30, 2012
The letter by Army Chief General VK Singh is being seen as a major security breach by the government. ...
10:16 PM, Mar 28, 2012
New Delhi: The all-party meeting of Rajya Sabha members chaired by the Prime Minister on Friday failed to the reach a consensus on the Lokpal Bill. And thus, the bill will not be introduced in the first half of the Budget session. Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley commented and said, "The consensus built against the government." The main bottleneck remains the same - government's own allies like...
09:50 PM, Mar 23, 2012
New Delhi: The deadlock over the Lokpal Bill remains with the all-party meeting called by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday failing to arrive at a consensus. The Prime Minister met Rajya Sabha MPs to discuss the Lokpal Bill and its passage in the Upper House of Parliament but the divergent views could not find a common ground. Even though Singh told the MPs that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance...
01:11 PM, Mar 23, 2012
New Delhi: With the Supreme Court judgement that sanction to prosecute a public servant has to be given within three months, the health ministry has been forced to act. It's giving sanction to prosecute four government servants. The fifth on the CBI chargesheet is former health minister A Ramadoss. Ramadoss is accused of helping the medical college in Indore, the Index Medical college, to function. Ramadoss allegedly allowed Index Medical...
06:16 AM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: The high profile Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is in the news once again and for all the wrong reasons. An IRS officer working for the project has moved court against a colleague, an IAS officer at the authority's Hyderabad office, over alleged sexual harassment. She was forced to approach court after the UIDAI didn't act against the officer despite orders from the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT)....
07:17 PM, Feb 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Board for Direct Taxes (CBDT) will investigate how information on the Income Tax department's raids on liquor baron Gurpreet Chadha alias Ponty Chadha was leaked earlier this month. The CBDT said that it was confirmed that 100 crore rupees were in Chadha's locker but when the I-T department reached there, only a Rs 100 note was found. The CBDT said that Chadha's daily income receipt is...
11:23 AM, Feb 16, 2012
New Delhi: In what comes as another shock for the telecom industry, the government is set to recommend that older players like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea be charged for excess spectrum that they hold. CNN-IBN has accessed a draft Cabinet note that is set to recommend the same. Sources say that the draft is expected to be finalised within a week and a decision on this is likely in...
06:24 PM, Feb 08, 2012
The Supreme Court said that Subramanian Swamy had the locus to seek sanction from the PMO for prosecution in the 2G case. ...
11:25 AM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has hit out at the UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi's Food security Bill. In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN, Pawar said there are not enough funds to implement Food Security Bill in its present form. This is the first time he is speaking out against the bill after it was cleared by the Cabinet. "The total provision for entire agriculture ministry is 20,000 crore. And...
01:11 PM, Jan 29, 2012
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