Has Team Anna exceeded the bounds of decorum both with its language and the substance of its criticism of the prime minister? Or was the Prime Minister's response over the top? ...
09:22 PM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: With Team Anna under attack for levelling allegations against the Prime Minister, Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday asked Anna Hazare to leave the group which is in the grip of "Naxalite minded crazies" and join him and Ramdev in the fight against graft. "Team Anna has always been in the grip of Naxalite minded crazies. It is time Anna Hazare dump most of Team Anna and...
01:46 PM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gave his strongest response yet to allegations, Team Anna stood by its allegations saying that even as the Prime Minister himself may be honest but he allowed ministers under him to loot the country. The Prime Minister hit back strongly on Team Anna's allegations. Speaking aboard his plane as he returned from Myanmar, the Prime Minister staked his pride and said that he...
07:32 AM, May 30, 2012
Rewari: The Congress-led UPA government at the Centre will not be able to complete its full term as its condition is like that of a patient surviving on ventilator, says yoga guru Ramdev. Addressing a press conference here yesterday, he alleged the accumulation of black money during the UPA regime had crossed all limits. Ramdev said the white paper on black money presented in Parliament by the UPA government was...
03:47 AM, May 30, 2012
Onboard PM's Special Aircraft: In a cryptic, but telling comment on Army Chief Gen VK Singh's recent controversial comments, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday night said, "Sometimes silence is a golden rule." On his way from Myanmar to Delhi, the Prime Minister was asked by reporters about Gen Singh's recent TV interviews in which he, among other comments critical of the government, had alleged that his letter to the...
01:33 AM, May 30, 2012
Jaipur: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday booked five senior Rajasthan government doctors for granting recognition to the nursing colleges which did not have standard facilities for the students, officials said. The doctors are professors at the medical colleges in the state and had inspected these nursing colleges as designated members of the Rajasthan Nursing Council for granting them recognition, they added. The authorities of five nursing colleges were also...
01:16 AM, May 30, 2012
On Board PM's Special Aircraft: Following are Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's remarks made against the allegations of irregularities in coal block allocation: There have been reports about the allocation of coal blocks based on leaked portions of a draft CAG report on the issue. We have also received a letter on the same subject. The Coal Minister has given factual details in response to these allegations and the Coal Ministry...
11:52 PM, May 29, 2012
Reacting to the attack by the PM on Team Anna, Prashant Bhushan said that Singh should accept the offer of a SIT probe. ...
10:32 PM, May 29, 2012
Turin: Juventus boss Antonio Conte has reiterated that he was not aware of any match-fixing during his time in charge of Siena. It has been alleged that the former Italy international was aware of a plot to arrange the outcome of a crucial Serie B clash with Novara on April 30, 2011 - to play out a draw - and the 42-year-old's house was searched on Monday as part of...
04:01 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP on Monday asked Team Anna to exercise control over its language while criticising the Prime Minister, saying use of intemperate words against somebody holding the top post is not acceptable. "Any use of improper words against the Prime Minister is not acceptable. Members of Team Anna will have to exercise control over their language," BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy said. At the same time, the Opposition...
01:34 AM, May 29, 2012
Rome: Italian police investigating a soccer match-fixing scandal placed Juventus trainer Antonio Conte under investigation and arrested the captain of Lazio Stefano Mauri and former Genoa midfielder Omar Milanetto, authorities said on Monday. The Italian football federation said Mauri was one of 14 people arrested. Italian authorities swept through the Italy national team training site near Florence on Monday and made more than a dozen arrests elsewhere as part of...
02:12 PM, May 28, 2012
Solapur: A day after his team targeted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for alleged corruption, Anna Hazare on Sunday said that the prime minister is an honest man. Speaking to reporters at Pandharpur on Sunday, he said that the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh "is an honest man though some ministers in his cabinet are corrupt". Prominent Team Anna members Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan had on Saturday written to the Prime...
02:50 AM, May 28, 2012
Satara: Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare on Sunday said if a strong Lokpal Bill does not come into being, he would again launch a massive movement in Delhi once the Lok Sabha elections are declared. "The government does not want to create a corruption-free India. Which is why, the Lokpal Bill had not been passed despite being introduced eight times in the Lok Sabha. At least half of the number of...
01:38 AM, May 28, 2012
Vatican City: The Vatican's inquisition into the source of leaked documents has yielded its first target with the arrest of the pope's butler, but the investigation is continuing into a scandal that has embarrassed the Holy See by revealing evidence of internal power struggles, intrigue and corruption in the highest levels of the Catholic Church governance. The detention of butler Paolo Gabriele, one of the few members of the papal...
07:27 PM, May 27, 2012
New Delhi: A move is afoot in the government to make corruption in private sector a penal offence with imprisonment up to seven years for the offenders. The government has proposed to make bribery in private sector - both giving and accepting it - a criminal offence by amending the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The draft Indian Penal Code (Amendments) Bill, 2011, circulated to States and Union Territories by the...
12:52 PM, May 27, 2012
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