New Delhi: While the BJP gave a breather to party president Nitin Gadkari, standing by him, India Against Corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal came all guns blazing on the Congress and BJP saying they were fooling the country. Kejriwal tweeted, "Vadra gets clean chit. Gadkari supported by BJP. Both BJP n Cong exposed. Anti-corruption stances of BJP n Cong are pretence and lip service, meant to fool aam aadmi. Country crying...
08:50 AM, Oct 27, 2012
Bhubaneswar: The India Against Corruption (IAC), led by anti-corruption crusader-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal, on Friday announced its plan to field candidates for all the 147 assembly and 21 Lok Sabha seats in Odisha. "While the ruling BJD has turned out to be a 'dalal' of capitalists, both Congress and BJP have failed as the opposition. IAC will emerge as an alternative for the people of Odisha," Manish Sisodia, a core committee...
11:15 PM, Oct 26, 2012
New Delhi: India Against Corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal on Friday hit out yet against at both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party. He said he was confident that like Robert Vadra, BJP President Nitin Gadkari will also get a clean chit. Demanding that Vadra and Gadkari disclose their business interests, Kejriwal said, "We will be made fools on the name of probe. Congress and BJP are together in this....
01:20 PM, Oct 26, 2012
Chandigarh: Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka has said that he has no information of any probe report on Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra's land deals. He said he did not know about any clean chit to Vadra. "I have not got any such order regarding the constitution of a committee, I have not been served with any notice to explain any aspect of the matter. The legal position...
11:31 AM, Oct 26, 2012
India have decided not to include any specialist spinner to their A squad for the warm-up game against England. ...
10:39 AM, Oct 25, 2012
His inclusion indicates that he is on the Indian selectors' radar for the four-Test series against the Three Lions. ...
02:10 PM, Oct 24, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP on Tuesday said "any competent authority" can probe allegations of corruption against its president Nitin Gadkari. "The party president has said any competent authority can probe the charges," Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said. India Against Corruption has accused Gadkari of land grab in Vidarbha in Maharashtra, an allegation he denied. On Tuesday, media reports revealed that an infrastructure company IRB gave his company a...
01:22 AM, Oct 24, 2012
New Delhi: There was more drama between Anna Hazare aide and former India Against Corruption activist Annie Kohli and Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday. Annie Kohli said she was not allowed to meet Kejriwal on Tuesday morning at first. She also said that she wasn't a political agent as claimed by IAC activists. She said she was wrongly being branded by IAC activist as a political agent. However, she later met...
12:50 PM, Oct 23, 2012
Chandigarh: Haryana Parliamentary Affairs Minister Randeep Surjewala on Monday claimed that the India Against Corruption (IAC) workers who protested outside the Delhi residence of Lok Sabha MP Deepender Hooda were "mostly workers dismissed by Maruti Udyog" following the recent violence at Manesar. "The action of the protesters breaking police barriers and indulging in violence is undemocratic and deeply condemnable," the minister said in an official statement. The protesters were mostly...
10:50 PM, Oct 22, 2012
Jaipur: Lawyer-cum-activist Prashant Bhushan on Sunday said he is ready to face any inquiry raised against him regarding irregularities in buying land in Himachal Pradesh. Bhushan, a prominent member of Arvind Kejriwal-led India Against Corruption (IAC), said he has already spoken on the allegation and rejected it, which he said, was aimed at misleading people. "I am open to any inquiry. The allegations were levelled just to mislead people," he...
11:49 PM, Oct 21, 2012
New Delhi: On Sunday, anti-corruption crusader Arvind Kejriwal got a taste of his own medicine. As he called yet another press conference on corruption, he was waylaid by his former colleagues in Team Anna. After a barrage of questions from one of them, Annie Kohli, Kejriwal beat a hasty retreat, only to come out later and rubbish her questions. Kohli and her team protested outside Kejriwal's office, and there were...
10:00 PM, Oct 21, 2012
New Delhi: Members of India Against Corruption (IAC) on Sunday protested and clashed with the police outside Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hoodas residence in the capital. The protest was organised in connection with the IAC member Arvind Kejriwal's allegations against Congress president Sonia Gandhis son-in-law Robert Vadra and his alleged illegalities with the collusion of the Haryana government and realty major DLF. At least 7 protestors sustained injuries and...
01:37 PM, Oct 21, 2012
New Delhi: With allegations levelled against its own members, India Against Corruption on Saturday announced setting up of a three-member panel of retired judges to probe the charges against its prominent members, including Prashant Bhushan and Anjali Damania. Former Delhi High Court Chief Justice AP Shah, Justice BH Marlapalle (Retd) of Bombay High Court and Justice Jaspal Singh (Retired) of Delhi High Court are the internal Lokpal for Kejriwal's yet-to-be...
03:20 AM, Oct 21, 2012
Chandigarh: In an oblique reference to Arvind Kejriwal's charges against his government, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Saturday said no matter how much "false propaganda" was being done, the ground reality was still in favour of Congress. Hooda cautioned people against "such forces that have emerged in the country". "Politics of character assassination and conspiracy is being done to weaken the Congress party, as it is the only...
10:19 PM, Oct 20, 2012
New Delhi: Anti-corruption crusader-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday continued to face sharp attack from the Congress through party general secretary Digvijaya Singh. And this even as his former mentor and associate in the fight against graft, Anna Hazare, offered a word of advice for the India Against Corruption (IAC) member asking him to take up his fight against the corrupts one by one. A day after Digvijaya Singh described Kejriwal...
10:09 PM, Oct 20, 2012
Kisanganj: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Shahnawaz Hussain on Saturday reacted sharply to anti-corruption crusader-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal's allegation of corruption against party president Nitin Gadkari and said there was no buyer to his "falsehood." "There is no buyer to falsehood spread by Kejriwal against Gadkari as he has always worked for the welfare of farmers," Hussain, who is also BJP's national spokesperson, told reporters in Kisanganj. Hussain, BJP Lok...
07:28 PM, Oct 20, 2012
New Delhi: BJP president Nitin Gadkari has defended himself against any wrongdoing in land deals in Vidarbha. Activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal had alleged that the BJP president's factories are robbing farmers of their land and irrigation water in Maharashtra. He accused Gadkari of grabbing farmers' land and corruption in collusion with NCP's Ajit Pawar. Purti Charitable Trust got this land on lease for 11 years with Rs 50,000 rent. It was...
08:40 AM, Oct 20, 2012
The IAC has reportedly formed an ombudsman to probe into allegations against members Anjali Damania, Prashant Bhushan and Mayank Gandhi. The crisis-ridden Kingfisher Airlines on Friday extended its lockout till October 23. Meanwhile, a case was registered against six unidentified persons on Friday in connection with the hijack alarm incident involving an Air India flight at the international airport in Thiruvananthapuram. ...
11:37 PM, Oct 19, 2012
New Delhi: With India Against Corruption (IAC) activists coming under the scanner for suspicious land deals, the organisation's head Arvind Kejriwal has promised an internal Lokpal to look into the charges. Having hit media headlines by targeting Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari in acts of alleged corruption, IAC member Anjali Damania now finds herself under the scanner. She finds herself being accused of making windfall gains by selling...
11:09 PM, Oct 19, 2012
The IAC has reportedly formed an ombudsman to probe into allegations against members Anjali Damania, Prashant Bhushan and Mayank Gandhi. ...
10:12 PM, Oct 19, 2012
