London: A large collection of Mahatma Gandhi's memorabilia will go under the hammer on Tuesday in London. Auction house Mullocks will auction the collection including a copy of a will, a pair of worn out sandals, a shawl woven by Gandhi himself, recordings of his speeches and a microscope slide with a drop of his blood. The auction house is already facing flak for selling Gandhi's belongings. But it is...
08:45 AM, May 21, 2013
London: Naval War Room leak case accused Ravi Shankaran on Wednesday lost his arguments in a magistrate's court against being extradited to India to stand trial. District Judge Nicholad Evans at Westminster Magistrates Court in London said in his ruling on Wednesday that he had been presented with no evidence to prove that there wasn't a case to answer. The District Judge has now sent the case to the UK...
04:28 PM, Mar 27, 2013
The voting in Italian elections finished on Monday. As counting is on, indications are that none of the two alliances will be able to form a government. While sources say that this is normal in Italy, the deadlock could mean that the fate of AgustaWestland hangs in balance. AgustaWestland is at the centre of the chopper deal controversy involving Indian defence officers. ...
07:47 AM, Feb 26, 2013
Christian Michel, one of the three middlemen mentioned in the tainted AgustaWestland chopper deal, seem to have disappeared and cannot be found at his residence. The other two middlemen Carlo Gerosa and Guido Haschke have similarly disappeared and have not yet come out in public and spoken on the Rs 3600 VVIP chopper deal with India. ...
08:58 PM, Feb 25, 2013
A joint team of the Central Bureau of Investigation, Defence Ministry and the External Affairs Ministry will meet the officials of AgustaWestland and its parent company Finmeccanica in Italy on Wednesday. ...
08:56 AM, Feb 20, 2013
A joint team of CBI, Ministry of Defence and the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday reached Italy to probe allegations of kickbacks. ...
10:58 PM, Feb 19, 2013
An Italian criminal law expert has told CNN-IBN that India won't find it easy to get details of the probe. ...
07:11 PM, Feb 19, 2013
A Central Bureau of Investigation team has reached Milan in Italy to probe the allegations of kickbacks in the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland chopper deal. The joint team of CBI, Ministry of Defence and Ministry of External Affairs officials will first meet officials at the Indian embassy before they try and meet the prosecutor to understand the case. ...
03:16 PM, Feb 19, 2013
CNN-IBN's political editor in Europe, Sanjay Suri, spoke to Italian legal experts to try and find out whether India can gain access to the Italian probe report on AgustaWestland deal. ...
11:04 AM, Feb 19, 2013
Former Finmeccanica CEO Giuseppe Orsi has reportedly applied for bail. His lawyer Ennio Amodio told CNN-IBN that he is currently in talks with the prosecution over the matter. Orsi was arrested following investigations into the tainted AgustaWestland chopper deal with India. He was suspected of involvement in the payment of bribes regarding the sale of helicopters produced by the subsidiary company of Finmeccanica. ...
04:20 PM, Feb 18, 2013
CNN-IBN correspondent Sanjay Suri reached Guido Ralph Haschke's residence on the Swiss-Italian border and was told that he had moved out. ...
10:24 PM, Feb 17, 2013
A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team is set to leave for Italy on Monday to investigate whether firms were floated in India just to route kickbacks in the Rs 3600 crore VVIP chopper deal with Italian defence company AgustaWestland. Official sources said the departure of the team was delayed due to some last-minute formalities which required to be fulfilled before traveling abroad for the purpose of investigation. ...
09:20 AM, Feb 17, 2013
A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team is set to leave for Italy on Sunday to investigate whether firms were floated in India just to route kickbacks in the Rs 3600 crore VVIP chopper deal with Italian defence company AgustaWestland. Official sources said the departure of the team was delayed by a day due to some last-minute formalities which required to be fulfilled before traveling abroad for the purpose of...
07:30 AM, Feb 17, 2013
The Italian court on Saturday had refused to share its probe documents with India. ...
11:20 PM, Feb 16, 2013
With elections just weeks away, the Italian media has begun playing down the AgustaWestland chopper deal that led to the arrest of Finmeccanica boss Giuseppe Orsi. ...
06:50 PM, Feb 16, 2013
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