The Cabinet approved Rs 2300 crore for One Rank One Pension for ex-servicemen. The BJP accuses the Congress of resorting to delaying tactics. ...
11:53 PM, Sep 24, 2012
New Delhi: Union Minister Kapil Sibal on Monday welcomed BJP leader Arun Shourie's remarks backing the hike in diesel prices and said his party should listen to his "good advice". "I hope Arun Shourie is being listened to by BJP. I think he is giving good advice to BJP and BJP should listen to him," Sibal told reporters here. Shourie, a former Union minister, has said he has hailed only...
06:17 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Union HRD and Telecommunications Minister Kapil on Monday said that the BJP should listen to its leader Arun Shourie, who has come out in support of the recent economic reforms undertaken by the UPA. "I hope Arun Shourie is being listened to by the BJP. He has given good advice to the BJP," said Sibal. ...
03:45 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Shourie has supported Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's decision of the diesel price hike and stays neutral on FDI in aviation and retail. Speaking to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Shourie also said that Prime Minister should go ahead with more reforms and take decision without waiting for legislation. Shourie also pointed out that adversarial politics has been taken to an absurd level in India. "Whatever you...
12:39 PM, Sep 24, 2012
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Arun Shourie on Monday said that he supported Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's decision to raise the fuel prices citing 'increasing growth deficit'. Speaking to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Shourie said, "I personally support the hike in the prices of petroleum products. It's only when prices of fuel are increased that alternate power sources will become viable." However, Shourie blamed the Prime Minister for...
12:31 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Bhopal: Even as the BJP has strongly opposed the Centre's decision to hike diesel prices and allow FDI in retail, senior party leader and former Union Minister Arun Shourie justified the move saying it was the need of the hour. "Increasing diesel prices was the need of the hour," Shourie, who had come here to participate in a seminar, told reporters last evening. A lot of hue and cry is...
08:51 PM, Sep 23, 2012
New Delhi: It was another day of war of words between the UPA government and the main Opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). While the BJP hit out at the government over its zero-loss theory, the UPA question why the Opposition was not raising the issues inside Parliament. This even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked for all coal allocation to be put on hold till the mine bill...
09:44 PM, Aug 25, 2012
Chennai: Former telecom minister Arun Shourie on Saturday said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should be allowed to make a statement on coal blocks allocation controversy in the wake of CAG's findings, saying the Opposition gained nothing by stalling Parliament over the issue. "...Prime Minister was the Minister-in-charge (handling Coal Ministry). He must be given the opportunity to explain the facts as he sees them," Shourie, who was a minister in...
06:16 PM, Aug 25, 2012
New Delhi: After nearly 19 months of its preliminary enquiry into telecom spectrum allocation during 2001-07, the CBI has closed the probe pertaining to the period when Arun Shourie was the telecom minister. CBI sources said the documents related to tenure of Shourie and his examination during the probe have not revealed any irregularity. After registering the preliminary enquiry in January, 2011, the CBI had found alleged irregularities during the...
07:44 PM, Jul 16, 2012
Former telecom minister Arun Shourie welcome the court's order of cancelling all 122 2G licences. ...
12:24 PM, Feb 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau Of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday decided to investigate about discrepancies in 2G spectrum allocation during the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government. Additional allocation of the 2G spectrum during the late BJP leader and the then telecom minister Pramod Mahajan's tenure will be investigated with the CBI registering a second FIR. After the FIR, the CBI conducted raids at Vodafone office in Mumbai and...
11:02 AM, Nov 19, 2011
New Delhi: The CBI on Tuesday submitted its report on former telecom ministers Arun Shourie and Dayanidhi Maran in the 2G spectrum scam. Sources have told CNN-IBN that no evidence has been found against Arun Shourie and a probe is still on against the deceased NDA telecom minister Pramod Mahajan. Sources have also said that no clean chit has been given to former textile minister Dayanidhi Maran and the decision...
06:47 PM, Sep 20, 2011
Badaun: BJP leader Maneka Gandhi on Tuesday said jailed MP Amar Singh should reveal names of more persons involved in the cash-for-vote scam. "Now he (Amar Singh) is in jail...He can expose more people (involved in the scam)," she told reporters. Those who had benefited from the entire episode were still at large but innocent BJP leaders had been put in jail, Gandhi said. On Anna Hazare's demand of right...
07:51 PM, Sep 13, 2011
Udhagamandalam: Former telecom minister in the NDA government Arun Shourie on Monday said he was prepared to face any probe in the 2G spectrum issue. Replying to a question on the statement of the CBI that he would be questioned in view of preparation of a third charge sheet in the 2G spectrum scam, Shourie said he was willing to answer any questions by the investigating agency. Shourie was in...
12:14 AM, Sep 06, 2011
New Delhi: There is some relief for former Union Minister Dayanidhi Maran in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case while the licences granted during the regime of Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) could be investigated. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in its progress report on the 2G scam submitted before the Supreme Court has claimed that there was prima facie no element of coercion found in licences...
04:14 PM, Sep 01, 2011
New Delhi: In dramatic courtroom allegations, arrested former telecom minister A Raja, on first day his defence, has directly embarrassed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and then finance minister P Chidambaram in the 2G scam. Raja's council claims the selling of stakes of 2G beneficiaries was cleared by Chidambaram in the presence of the Prime Minister. However, Chidambaram immediately denied the charge. Target No. 1: Manmohan Singh and P Chidambaram Raja...
08:45 PM, Jul 25, 2011
Former telecom minister Arun Shourie says 2G policy is right, implementation was wrong. ...
07:08 PM, Jul 25, 2011
In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN, Arun Shourie talks about his book 'Does He Know a Mother's Heart'. ...
04:19 PM, Jul 21, 2011
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12:13 AM, Mar 23, 2011
Arun Shourie gifted Tatas almost 773 acres of VSNL land alleges Outlook Magazine cover expose. ...
12:04 AM, Mar 23, 2011
