New Delhi: Reacting to External Affairs Minister SM Krishna's warning, Team Anna on Sunday said they would welcome a defamation suit by the government against them for levelling charges of corruption against top UPA ministers. "If SM Krishna has not done anything wrong, why he is scared. We welcome a defamation suit," Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan said. Team Anna on Saturday clubbed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister...
07:53 AM, May 27, 2012
New Delhi: Team Anna on Saturday will release documents related to corruption charges against 15 union ministers. Team Anna will also elaborate on its plans for its indefinite fast beginning July 25 for a strong Lokpal Bill. With the Lokpal Bill once against stuck in the Rajya Sabha, Team Anna has earlier announced that it would to go on a fast again from July 25 at Jantar Mantar in New...
08:01 AM, May 26, 2012
Mangalore: Facing a fresh bout of revolt against his leadership, Karnataka Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda on Saturday said he was unaware of resignation by some ministers in the state. "I have not received any resignation letter so far. There is no crisis in BJP", Gowda told reporters here when his reaction was sought over the resignation letters submitted by seven ministers to former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa. He said...
01:31 AM, May 13, 2012
CHENNAI: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Friday indicated that the ball was in the Central governments court as far as the demand for setting up of a sub-committee of chief ministers to examine the provisions of the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) is concerned.She was addressing the media with Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik after a 45-minute discussion with him after he called on her at her residence.When asked for...
09:11 AM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: Expenses on foreign and domestic tours of central ministers and VVIPs rose by more than ten times to Rs 678.52 crore in 2011-12, up from Rs 56.16 crore in the previous year. The tour expenses increased from Rs 46.95 crore in the budget estimates of 2011-12 to Rs 499.89 crore in the revised estimates, due to payment dues to Air India for VVIP travels and maintenance of aircraft,...
04:18 PM, May 08, 2012
Chief Ministers of ten states, including that of West Bengal, will be meeting the Prime Minister on Saturday over the proposed counter-terrorism agency. ...
09:20 AM, May 05, 2012
New Delhi: The stage is set for a renewed Centre-state conflict over the proposed National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh chairs a meeting on Saturday with chief ministers of ten states, including that of West Bengal, over the contentious issue in a bid to break the deadlock over it. Nearly three months after the Union Home Ministry notified setting up of the NCTC, its fate is...
07:27 AM, May 05, 2012
New Delhi: A ministerial panel headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday approved starting the process to auction spectrum which would be freed in the wake of Supreme Court cancelling 122 licenses. The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) gave the approval to the process for selecting an auctioneer who will conduct the fresh round of bidding for spectrum as mandated by the apex court. "The EGoM has approved the...
09:05 PM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: 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. Despite what both sides are saying, sources say there is a growing rift over the Ramdev, Anna Hazare tie-up. "I was the lone...
09:42 PM, Apr 22, 2012
Noida: Team Anna on Sunday decided to send notices to 14 Union Ministers, whom they had named as "corrupt", seeking their responses to the allegations before going ahead with agitation seeking legal action against them. This was decided at a meeting of Team Anna's Core Committee, attended by Anna Hazare and other prominent members. "We have decided to send notices to 14 Union Ministers facing serious allegations and whom we...
08:03 PM, Apr 22, 2012
Islamabad: Senior Pakistan People's Party leader Qamar Zaman Kaira on Wednesday replaced Firdous Ashiq Awan as the Information Minister as 13 lawmakers who were recently inducted into the council of ministers were allocated portfolios. Kaira, a close confidant of President Asif Ali Zardari, had done a stint earlier as Information Minister before being removed in a reshuffle in 2011. He was among five Cabinet ministers who were given their portfolios...
12:03 AM, Apr 19, 2012
New Delhi: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday said that it's unfortunate that some states harbour distrust with the central government on various issues. "We will resolve differences between some states and the central government. It's regrettable that after 5 such conferences, some states harbour distrust with the central government," he told reporters. "If the states are willing to accept more responsibility then we can step back. If the...
03:08 PM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: Opposing amendments to the BSF Act, some state Chief Ministers on Monday demanded that discussions on the issue should be deferred and taken up along with the National Counter Terrorism Centre on May 5 as it also disturbs the federal structure of the country. Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said since the proposed amendments to the BSF Act 1968 were against the laid down principles of a federal...
03:52 PM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday slammed the Centre and said that the government was making repeated efforts to interfere with the powers of the state governments. "Constant attempts to reduce states to the level of glorified municipal corporation heavily dependent on the Centre for funds," Jayalalithaa said, addressing the Chief Ministers' meeting on internal security in the national capital. Following is the full text of...
12:50 PM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday said the open Indo-Nepal border is emerging as a possible ingress point for anti-national elements because of strict vigil on the country's borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh. Speaking at the Internal Security conference of Chief Ministers in New Delhi, the newly-elected UP CM said the 550km-long border with the state requires special policing arrangement to put a check on any...
12:44 PM, Apr 16, 2012
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