New Delhi: Team Anna on Wednesday stayed firm on its allegations against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and questioned as to why didn't he say he'll go to jail if the charges were proved. Team Anna member Manish Sisodia said, "Why is the Prime Minister avoiding probe in the coal scam? The Prime Minister says if the allegations are proved, he will quit public life. Why doesn't he say that he...
01:36 PM, May 30, 2012
Mumbai: Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Tuesday said he will not meet social activist Anna Hazare as long as he is surrounded by key aides Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Kiran Bedi. "Till Kejriwal, Sisodia and Kiran Bedi are part of Team Anna, I cannot think of meeting him (Hazare)," Thackeray told reporters on the sidelines of a function in Mumbai. Last week, Thackeray had refused to meet Hazare,...
04:31 AM, May 02, 2012
Noida (UP): High drama was witnessed at the Team Anna Core Committee meeting in Noida on Sunday with the group expelling one of its members Mufti Shameem Kazmi for allegedly recording its proceedings even as he claimed that he quit the movement as it was turning anti-Muslim. Kazmi stormed out of the meeting attended by Anna Hazare on Sunday afternoon and announced his resignation to the media outside the venue,...
05:14 PM, Apr 22, 2012
Anna Hazare will sit on a day-long fast at Jantar Mantar on Sunday to demand that Parliament pass the Lokpal Bill and a stronger whistleblower protection programme. ...
08:37 AM, Mar 25, 2012
Ghaziabad: Team Anna stepped up its attack on Congress ahead of the final phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh targeting Sonia and Rahul Gandhi in particular. Speaking at a public meeting on Saturday, Team Anna member Manish Sisodia said that while Sonia Gandhi abuses Mayawati and Mulayam Singh Yadav in UP, she praises them in Delhi. He also slammed the BJP for allegedly dividing the nation in the name of...
02:59 PM, Feb 26, 2012
New Delhi A Delhi court has refused to direct the Delhi Police to register an FIR against Anna Hazare and his team members for allegedly disrespecting the national flag during their anti-graft protest in August 2011. "In the complaint, nothing has been mentioned or submitted during arguments as to why FIR should be registered in the matter," Metropolitan Magistrate Anil Kumar said on a private complaint for registration of FIR...
12:06 PM, Feb 09, 2012
Pune: Social activist Anna Hazare would be shifted to a hospital in Gurgaon, near Delhi, on Sunday, his associates said on Saturday. Anna's aide Datta Awari said from his native village Ralegan Siddhi that Hazare would be leaving for Delhi on Sunday. "We are now planning an Ayurvedic treatment," he said, adding that Hazare would be admitted to Medanta hospital in Gurgaon. Manish Sisodiya, a member of Hazare's core team,...
02:08 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Mumbai: The pressure on Anna Hazare is growing to call off his protest fast but Editor-in-Chief of IBN Lokmat Nikhil Wagle, who met the anti-corruption activist in Mumbai, on Wednesday says people like Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi and Manish Sisodia are putting pressure on Anna to continue with his fast. He says these people don't know him well and want him to continue with his fast despite his deteriorating health....
02:31 PM, Dec 28, 2011
Team Anna member Manish Sisodia on Wednesday gave an update on Anna Hazare's health and asked him to break his fast. ...
08:24 AM, Dec 28, 2011
New Delhi: Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare's former official blogger Raju Parulekar has spoken out after Hazare publicly denied that there was any plan to restructure his core committee. Parulekar has come out with a letter which he claims was written by Hazare. In the letter, Anna says he wanted to restructure the core committee. Parulekar also said Team Anna members Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisosida and Kiran Bedi are leading Hazare...
12:53 PM, Nov 05, 2011
New Delhi: Team Anna is expected to meet the Standing Committee of Parliament and make a formal presentation of their viewpoints in a bid to demand constitutional amendments to widen the powers of the Jan Lokpal Bill. The team's viewpoints include the conduct of MPs in Parliament and doing away with the sanction for prosecution required for bureaucrats in the Bill. The meeting is said to take place on Thursday...
08:16 AM, Nov 03, 2011
Mumbai: Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray has appealed Anna Hazare to end his fast, suggesting the social activist that his team members could fast instead and continue the anti-corruption agitation. "Please end the fast, considering your deteriorating health. Let Kejriwal, Bedi, Sisodiya fast instead and continue the stir," Thackeray said in a letter to Hazare. Sena Executive President Uddhav Thackeray told reporters in Mumbai on Wednesday that the letter also...
04:06 PM, Aug 24, 2011
New Delhi: Anna Hazare, whose fast entered the ninth day on Wednesday, refused to be put on a intravenous drip despite doctors advising him to do so once again on Wednesday morning, his close associate said. "Anna has refused to take the IV drip after doctors advised him to take it following a check up this morning," activist Manish Sisodia told reporters in New Delhi. He has lost another 200...
08:59 AM, Aug 24, 2011
New Delhi: The health of anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare, who is fasting for the past nine days demanding a strong Lokpal is alright, one of his close aides said on Wednesday. "He is alright at present. He is taking rest. A team of doctors is continuously monitoring him," Manish Sisodia, a close associate of Hazare told reporters. Hazare has lost 5.6 kg since he began his fast on August 16...
07:24 AM, Aug 24, 2011
New Delhi: Fasting Anna Hazare has lost five kgs in the past seven days of his hunger strike with doctors on Monday saying he is fine but his close aides are worried. "He has lost five kilograms in the past seven days. His weight has come down to 67 from 72 kg. His blood pressure is 130/80 and pulse rate 90," close associate Manish Sisodia said at the Ramlila Maidan....
10:46 AM, Aug 22, 2011
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