As India Against Corruption (IAC) activists tried to demonstrate outside Congress president Sonia Gandhi's residence at 10 Janpath in New Delhi, they were detained by the police. ...
06:46 PM, Aug 26, 2012
New Delhi: Even as India Against Corruption members, led by Arvind Kejriwal, marched towards Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence in the national capital on Sunday, their colleagues in different states led rallies towards the residences of their respective Chief Ministers. In Bhopal, the police lathicharged protesters who were largely non-violent. In Chhattisgarh, protesters gathered outside Chief Minister Raman Singh's residence in Raipur. In Odisha, demonstrators gathered outside Chief Minister Naveen...
02:20 PM, Aug 26, 2012
Kiran Bedi had on Saturday expressed apprehension over Arvind Kejriwal's decision to target all parties on the coal block allocations, saying only the party in power needed to be focused upon. ...
10:32 AM, Aug 26, 2012
Anti-corruption activists led by Arvind Kejriwal were detained outside the residences of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Sunday morning for violating prohibitory orders. ...
09:49 AM, Aug 26, 2012
India Against Corruption member Manish Sisodia on Sunday said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's silence on the coal scam was indeed disturbing. ...
09:13 AM, Aug 26, 2012
A defiant Arvind Kejriwal, who was detained on Sunday morning for flouting prohibitory orders and trying to gherao the PM's residence, said he would do it again. ...
08:30 AM, Aug 26, 2012
New Delhi: 12.46 pm: Arvind Kejriwal says that coal mines were allotted to companies that made underwear, gutka and cassettes. 11.33 am: IAC members protesting outside Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's residence in Bhubaneshwar taken into preventive custody by the police. 11.22 am: Congress spokesperson Sandeep Dikshit byte says that law and order situation must be kept in mind during a protest. "Whenever there is a protest, law and order...
08:25 AM, Aug 26, 2012
New Delhi: India Against Corruption (IAC) member and social activist Arvind Kejriwal, who was detained by Delhi Police for staging protest over the coal blocks allocations, said they haven't broken any law by protesting, then why they have been arrested. "There is no ground for detaining us. I would like to know under what law are we being arrested. We haven't even violated IPC Section 144," said Kejriwal. Kejriwal was...
07:30 AM, Aug 26, 2012
New Delhi: India Against Corruption (IAC) members Arvind Kejriwal and Gopal Rai were detained outside Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence on Sunday for violating prohibitory orders as they moved in to gherao the house over the coal blocks allocations issue. IAC members Manish Sisodia and Kumar Vishwas, who were protesting outside UPA chief Sonia Gandhi's residence, were detained too. Launching a tirade against the government for the decision to shut...
07:06 AM, Aug 26, 2012
Reetinder Singh Sodhi did it in 2000, Virat Kohli repeated the same in 2008, now it's a chance for Unmukt Chand to replicate the feat. ...
11:30 AM, Aug 25, 2012
New Delhi: Erstwhile Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said they will launch a party by October 2, coinciding with Gandhi Jayanti. Kejriwal's statement comes a day after the members met at Prashant Bhushan's residence on Saturday. The meeting was attended by Arvind Kejriwal, Prashant Bhushan, Kiran Bedi, Manish Sisodia, Yogendra Yadav, Kumar Vishvas, Dinesh Vaghela, Sanjay Singh, Nishikant, Ajeet Jha, and Naveen Jaihind. The preparatory committee consisting of...
09:26 PM, Aug 12, 2012
Team Anna has rubbished reports that there is a rift within the team over their decision to join politics. ...
02:02 PM, Aug 12, 2012
New Delhi: Fresh remarks by an erstwhile Team Anna member that Anna Hazare was against the anti-graft movement turning political has triggered ripples with India Against Corruption (IAC) on Saturday taking on the critics. Sunita Godara, who was a member of Team Anna's Core Committee which was disbanded by Hazare earlier this week, claimed that the activist did not pressurise anyone but said that they were free to choose their...
09:11 PM, Aug 11, 2012
Abhinav Mukund will lead the team on the upcoming tour of New Zealand. ...
06:22 PM, Aug 10, 2012
Indore: A complaint was filed in a local court on Thursday against social activist Anna Hazare and his team for allegedly "cheating the people in the name of launching an agitation" for a strong Lokpal Bill. The complaint was filed by advocate Inderjeet Singh Bhatia against Anna and his team in the court of Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) Suman Shrivastava. The court will hear the complaint on August 14,...
08:23 AM, Aug 10, 2012
New Delhi: Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare has said Team Anna's work is now over as it was set up to get the Jan Lokpal Bill passed. In a new blog post, Anna said, "Team Anna was set up to get Jan Lokpal Bill passed. The work initiated by Team Anna has come to an end. The core committee of Team Anna also ceases to exist," Anna and his team members...
01:45 PM, Aug 06, 2012
New Delhi: A day after Team Anna announced its political debut, some dejected Anna Hazare supporters at Navsari in Surat burnt posters of Anna and India Against Corruption. The supporters are against the team's decision to form a political party. The supporters had been sitting with Anna in protest for the past 10 days. The decision has got mixed reactions from Anna's supporters. Some unhappy India Against Corruption were absent...
08:09 AM, Aug 04, 2012
New Delhi: 6.32: Team Anna has ended its 10-day-long fast at Jantar Mantar. General VK Singh offered a glass of water to Anna Hazare to end his fast. 6.05: Addressing the gathering at Jantar Mantar, anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare has said that he will travel across the country and make them aware. Anna said he would back his team's party, but clarified that he would not contest elections. Justifying the...
03:30 PM, Aug 03, 2012
New Delhi: Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid has written a blow by blow account of his secret meeting with Anna Hazare on June 23. In an article in Tehelka, Khurshid claimed that Anna felt that Ramdev used his name for support, while his agenda was completely different. Khurshid said that Anna volunteered that he had decided not to tour country and would not fast on July 25 and August 9....
03:09 PM, Aug 03, 2012
