The anti-corruption crusader-turned-politician said the language used by Salman Khurshid does not suit a Law Minister. ...
04:23 PM, Oct 17, 2012
New Delhi: Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid clarified his comment on India Against Corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal saying his comment was taken out of context. Khurshid said what he meant was that he will fight back the allegations made by Kejriwal. Khurshid said his voters will fight back the charges and that it was a matter of language. Khurshid also quoted lines from a poem, 'Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamaare...
03:45 PM, Oct 17, 2012
New Delhi: In the latest development with regard to the controversy surrounding Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid, the Congress leader on Wednesday threatened anti-corruption crusader-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal, saying till now he has been wielding a pen and "it is time to replace ink with blood". He said, "I was made the Law Minister and asked to wield a pennow it is time to replace it with blood." Launching a scathing...
02:46 PM, Oct 17, 2012
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra is now in a fix to explain the overdraft in his balance sheet. Sources close to Vadra now say no loan was taken from the Corporation Bank, so there was no question of any overdraft. Sources add it is a standard practice to issue cheques of higher values than what's there in an account, if there is possibility of that amount...
09:18 AM, Oct 17, 2012
Mumbai: The man who took on Law Minister Salman Khurshid and Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra, activist Arvind Kejriwal, is set to take centrestage again on Wednesday. Kejriwal had threatened to release proof of corruption by BJP President Nitin Gadkari. It now remains to be seen whether Gadkari will be his next target or it will be the NCP. Kejriwal had also alleged that the Congress and the...
08:29 AM, Oct 17, 2012
The Haryana government was forced to order an investigation into the Vadra-DLF Manesar land deal worth Rs 58 crore after Khemka cancelled the land mutation saying it violated the consolidation act of the states. ...
11:32 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Senior IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who has been transferred by the Haryana government, said he suspected that he was transferred for initiating probe into the land deal between Robert Vadra and realty major DLF. ...
09:36 PM, Oct 16, 2012
New Delhi: Senior IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who was transferred by the Haryana government after he ordered an investigation into the land deals between Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra and realty major DLF, on Tuesday said that he suspected that the Punjab and Haryana High Court order was used as a pretext to transfer him out. Speaking exclusively to IBN-18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Khemka said, "I was conducting...
09:24 PM, Oct 16, 2012
New Delhi: Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid's Zakir Hussain Memorial Trust now faces more allegations over the allotment of support equipment to the differently-abled. CNN-IBN travelled to Bulandshahr where camps were held to distribute equipment to the differently-abled and found both, jarring stories of discrepancies and genuine beneficiaries of the Khurshid trust. While some of the beneficiaries claimed that they got aids, others said they did not and there were...
01:21 PM, Oct 16, 2012
New Delhi: 8.40 pm: On security threat to Ashok Khemka, his lawyer Anupam Gupta said, "Yes Khemka has personally told me that he has received threatening phone calls in the night. We don't know who are these callers and who is behind all this." 8.05 pm: Senior IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who has been transferred by the Haryana government, said he suspected that he was transferred for initiating probe into...
12:10 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Sagarika Ghose: Hi there, the Salman Khurshid-Arvind Kejriwal confrontation is being played out in front of the TV cameras 24X7. In fact every protest, every allegation of Arvind Kejriwal and India Against Corruption is being given 24X7 coverage by the electronic media. Has the media become the agent or ally of Arvind Kejriwal and India Against Corruption? We're exploring that question with, joining us Madhu Trehan, Senior Journalist, Content Director,...
11:42 AM, Oct 16, 2012
New Delhi: The clamour for Law Minister Salman Khurshid's resignation is growing with both the Opposition and India Against Corruption saying he must quit before the allegations against his NGO go in court. While the Congress claims it is ready to slug it out in court and not on the streets, IAC activists are adamant on Khurshid's resignation, saying that he could influence the case against his trust. Speaking to...
07:52 AM, Oct 16, 2012
New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal and a group of disabled people on Monday called off their four-day-old protest in Delhi against Salman Khurshid and announced a fresh campaign against him in his UP constituency Farrukhabad from November one. Kejriwal also alleged that there was a quid pro quo between the Congress, which is supporting Khurshid, and SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav who is facing a disproportionate assets case in the Supreme...
05:50 PM, Oct 15, 2012
Bulandshahr: Even as Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid produced lists of beneficiaries of aid given by his trust, the Zakir Hussain Memorial Trust, on Sunday amidst allegations of corruption and misuse of funds by the NGO, CNN-IBN met a few of them in Bulandshahr who said that they had received the implements and equipment only a few days ago. Rekha, a differently-abled girl said that she got crutches and that...
12:40 PM, Oct 15, 2012
New Delhi: 6.04 pm: Sushil Kumar Gautam, district handicapped welfare officer, Bulanshahar, tells CNN-IBN that his predecessor had told the state government that her signature on a report on equipment distributed to 42 disabled people were forged. The block development officers or the BDOs are now conducting a physical check on the list of beneficiaries. So far, 2 of the 4 BDOs have submitted their reports. In Sayana, all four...
10:30 AM, Oct 15, 2012
Tonight at 10, CNN-IBN deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel of experts whether media is an ally in Arvind Kejriwal's politics. You can ask a question to our panelists here or tweet us @face_the_nation.
10:25 AM, Oct 15, 2012
New Delhi: Even as India Against Corruption (IAC) activist Arvind Kejriwal refuses to give up on his demand for Law Minister Salman Khurshid's resignation, the government continues to stand by Khurshid. Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni, MoS in the PMO Narayanasamy and Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh have defended him. "I am confident that my very good friend and colleague and one of the most decent human beings I...
09:15 AM, Oct 15, 2012
New Delhi: The war between Law Minister Salman Khurshid and India Against Corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal is set to intensify more as Kejriwal has promised to produce more proof against Khurshid. While Khurshid on Sunday showed photographs to prove that his wife Louise Khurshid's trust distributed equipment for the differently abled, Kejriwal claimed the photographs were of an event held later. Kejriwal has claimed to produce more proof against Khurshid...
07:50 AM, Oct 15, 2012
Patna: Nearly 25 members of India Against Corruption (IAC) were detained in Patna on Sunday after they shouted slogans against Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid outside the residence of the Governor. A few activists even burnt effigies of the minister who has been struggling to come clean of corruption charges levelled against him by activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal following media reports and a sting operation by a TV channel that alleged...
07:45 AM, Oct 15, 2012
New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday alleged that the Uttar Pradesh government was colluding with Salman Khurshid to bail the Law Minister out of the allegations of financial irregularities in an NGO run by him and his wife. Posing five questions to Khurshid, the activist claimed that the allegations were not his but that of the Uttar Pradesh government, whose probe "proved the irregularities" done by the NGO run by...
03:59 PM, Oct 14, 2012
