Ranchi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) may on Tuesday start probing corruption charges against former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa, a CBI official said on Saturday. "The Supreme Court has ordered a specific probe against Yeddyurappa. It is about the funding received by an NGO run by Yeddyurappa's family. The NGO was funded by mining and industrial companies," said the official who did not want to be named. On...
07:16 PM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran on March 20 in the Aircel-Maxis deal. Sources said that Maran's statement will recorded on March 20 and he will be asked to furnish details of source of funding of Maxis deal and his role in facilitating deal. Last week, statement of a Sun TV official was recorded. He has been asked to revert with details of bank...
05:04 PM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) registered two money laundering cases against former Union Minister Dayanidhi Maran and his brother Kalanidhi on Wednesday in the multi-crore 2G licence scam. An illegal gratification of Rs 550 crore was reportedly accepted through Dayanidhi's brother Kalanidhi in the garb of share premium invested in M/S Sun Direct TV by Maxis Communication, owned by Malaysian tycoon T Anantha Krishnan. The case, registered under the...
10:44 AM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has issued notices to the Department of Telecommunication (DoT), the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on an application filed by Prashant Bhushan in the 2G spectrum scam. Bhushan, in his plea, raised issues suggesting that the CBI was not doing anything against former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran. The plea also said that the Law Ministry had tried to interfere in...
03:14 PM, Jan 05, 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
Mumbai: Shares of broadcasting firm Sun TV Network surged by nearly 7 per cent in morning trade on the bourses on Friday after the company reported an 8 per cent rise in consolidated net profit for the September quarter. In the last two days, the stock has gained over 12 per cent. Sun TV was on an uptrend on Friday ahead of its second quarter results and today, the market...
12:10 PM, Nov 04, 2011
Chennai: Five months after Kanimozhi was arrested as an accused in the 2G scam, will she finally get bail? That's the question the Special CBI court will answer on Thursday as it delivers its order on the bail pleas of DMK Rajya Sabha MP and DMK President M Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi along with four other 2G accused. Kanimozhi's last statement before she was sent to judicial custody in the 2G...
06:56 AM, Nov 03, 2011
Chennai: DMK president M Karunanidhi on Tuesday said he did not discuss with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh the filling up of vacancies in the union cabinet caused by the resignations of A Raja and Dayanidhi Maran. "Neither the Prime Minister nor me broached the subject during the meeting" in New Delhi yesterday, he told reporters soon after his return here from the national capital. Asked when those vacancies will be...
01:03 AM, Oct 26, 2011
New Delhi: The CBI is scrutinising crucial documents received from Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) on allocation of over 300 high-capacity telecom lines to former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maram's residence that were allegedly used by a private channel owned by his brother. Sources said the scrutiny will take another two months after which CBI will be filing a regular case in the matter. The agency had sought these documents from...
10:55 AM, Oct 25, 2011
New Delhi: The Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam (DMK) Party has decided not to discuss filling Cabinet berths now and the party's primary focus now is on fighting the 2G spectrum case legally and building party. DMK chief M Karunanidhi's primary concern is now bail for his daughter Kanimozhi in the 2G spectrum scam case. The party feels that taking berths now will send a signal of 'political opportunism' and also feels...
01:40 PM, Oct 24, 2011
New Delhi: A day after CBI raided the Maran brothers in the 2G case, DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Tuesday pledged full support to the duo, calling CBI raids on them a 'conspiracy'. "News reports about me not supporting Dayanidhi and Kalanidhi Maran are wrong and disturbing, the DMK patriarch in a statement issued on Tuesday. "I have already said it's a conspiracy against DMK. Murosoli Maran has given them...
02:25 PM, Oct 11, 2011
New Delhi: One of the most powerful faces in the media industry and now the prime suspect in the 2G license scam, former union minister Dayanidhi Maran and his elder brother Kalanidhi, the head of Sun Network, have been named by the CBI as the prime accused in the controversial Aircel-Maxis deal. After a 9-month-long preliminary enquiry, the CBI has made out a prima facie case of misuse of office,...
11:55 PM, Oct 10, 2011
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11:36 PM, Oct 10, 2011
Mumbai: Maran family-owned broadcasting firm Sun TV on Monday bounced back from its sharp intraday lows and settled with gains of over 10 per cent from its last close, adding Rs 1,052 crore to its market valuation. Shares of Sun TV settled at Rs 288.15, higher by 10.21 per cent on the BSE, thereby, adding Rs 1,052 crore from its market capitalisation, which stood at Rs 11,355 crore at close...
07:34 PM, Oct 10, 2011
New Delhi: The noose is tightening around former Union minister and DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran in the Aircel-Maxis deal. Even as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raided the residence and offices of Maran and his brother Kalanidhi Maran across Chennai, Hyderabad and Delhi on Monday, the DMK is unlikely to jeopardise ties with the Congress because of action against them. The CBI has been claiming that it has found...
03:03 PM, Oct 10, 2011
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