Goa: As Goa goes to the polls early next month, the issue of corruption and land are foremost. An income tax investigation has exposed how politicians are conspiring with real estate and land sharks to sell Goa for a song. Indicted in the income tax order, which has been accessed by CNN-IBN, is minister Babush Monserrate who is being fielded by the Congress in the upcoming polls. Monserate got kickbacks...
06:24 AM, Feb 11, 2012
Mumbai: Suresh Kalmadi, facing corruption charges, will not campaign for the upcoming Pune civic polls. He has been suspended from the Congress party. But Kalmadi got a hero's welcome in Pune on Saturday evening. Party workers defied the leadership and celebrated his homecoming. The Congress has officially stated that the sacked CWG chief will not campaign for the Pune Municipal Polls. Congressmen and women lined up at his Pune home...
09:12 PM, Feb 05, 2012
Ajit Pawar is making the issue his election plank in the hopes of replacing Suresh Kalmadi. ...
11:59 AM, Feb 05, 2012
Mumbai: The presence of the underworld may soon be seen in the local civic body office in Mumbai. The dreaded Mumbai underworld may no longer be the dominant presence as it once was but when the stakes are high the dons aren't too far behind. In the battle for the country's richest civic body the mafia influence goes beyond just hawala money or muscle power. Aiding the underworld in its...
06:48 AM, Feb 03, 2012
Pune: The streets of Pune witnessed a horror on the Wednesday morning when an angry bus driver went berserk crushing several cars and driving his vehicle over pedestrians killing at least 9 and injuring 27 others. The Pune Police while confirming the ghastly incident, said that the driver, who was in a dangerous mood for some unknown reasons, also rammed at least 25 vehicles. "The man went berserk. He went...
11:24 AM, Jan 25, 2012
Pune: At least nine people were killed and 27 injured when an angry staffer of the government bus service hijacked a state transport (ST) bus and went on a rampage through the streets of Pune on Wednesday, police said. Meeran Borwankar, Commissioner, Pune Police, said, "The man went berserk. He went on ramming the vehicles plying on the road, he was in a dangerous mood. He killed 8 people and...
10:19 AM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: In Maharashtra, political parties may be sparring for a land for a memorial of Babasaheb Ambedkar but not too many moved by the plight of a Dalit woman who was assaulted and paraded naked at Mulgaon village in Satara, all because her son eloped with a girl from a higher caste. After she was stripped, paraded naked and beaten mercilessly by lathis, this Dalit Woman in the district...
09:24 PM, Jan 11, 2012
Mumbai: The pressure on Anna Hazare is growing to call off his protest fast but Editor-in-Chief of IBN Lokmat Nikhil Wagle, who met the anti-corruption activist in Mumbai, on Wednesday says people like Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi and Manish Sisodia are putting pressure on Anna to continue with his fast. He says these people don't know him well and want him to continue with his fast despite his deteriorating health....
02:31 PM, Dec 28, 2011
Goa: It's the 50th anniversary of Goa's liberation from the Portuguese rule. But there may be little reason to celebrate because of rampant corruption, in particular the big mining scam. On December 19, 1961, Goa woke up to the sounds of freedom. Operation Vijay that lasted less than 48 hours overthrew the last vestige of colonial power on the subcontinent. Half a century later, the Goan is doing what he...
09:04 AM, Dec 19, 2011
On this episode we bring you the history of Goa and tell you why it is a major tourist attraction in India. ...
10:21 PM, Dec 17, 2011
New Delhi: Fifteen people were burnt to death, in Buldhana district of Maharashtra, following an accident that involved two buses. Sources say 57 others have been injured out of whom 35 are said to be critical. The injured have been rushed to the nearest hospital. Sources added that the toll is expected to rise. The two buses met with an accident on the Nagpur-Aurangabad highway. One of the buses was...
09:57 AM, Nov 28, 2011
Mumbai: India, saluting its real heroes. Teary-eyed relatives of the men who died in the line of duty were joined by ordinary Mumbaikars as the city remembered those killed in the 26/11 terror strikes. The solemn occasion though, was marred by an unseemly tug of war between the Shiv Sena and the Congress over just who will unveil the memorial erected for policeman Tukaram Ombale. Tukaram Ombale, armed with nothing...
08:28 PM, Nov 26, 2011
It's been three years since the Mumbai terror attacks, still the city lacks security. ...
11:59 PM, Nov 25, 2011
Ahmedabad: The Narendra Modi government received a major setback on Monday when the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Ishrat Jehan case told the Gujarat High Court that her encounter was fake. The report also said that the police wrongly passed Ishrat and her friends as terrorists. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Ishrat's family have demanded death sentence for Ishrat's killers. Ishrat's mother said that she always knew what happened with her...
07:02 AM, Nov 22, 2011
Sadhvi Pragya claims there are no specific charges against her and no incriminating evidence has been recovered. ...
08:30 PM, Nov 18, 2011
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