New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal-led India Against Corruption (IAC) members on Sunday protested at the Delhi Airport as Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid arrived in the country after a sting operation by a news channel alleged that an NGO, owned by him and his wife, was involved in cases of financial misappropriation and forgery, a charge denied by the couple. The IAC members will take out a rally against Khurshid and...
10:50 AM, Oct 14, 2012
New Delhi: Blackmailers, rabble-rousers, third rate people doing third rate things - these are the words that Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid used to describe activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal and members of India Against Corruption (IAC), who have levelled charges of corruption against him and his wife, Louise. Khurshid, who was in London for the past two days, returned to India on Sunday. His wife Louise had said that Khurshid would...
07:34 AM, Oct 14, 2012
New Delhi: Anti-corruption activist and India Against Corruption (IAC) member Arvind Kejriwal is not backing down from the war of words with Law Minister Salman Khurshid over latter's NGO over misuse of government funds for the differently-abled. Kejriwal upped the ante against Khurshid and his wife Louise and said that his protest will continue till the Law Minister resigns. Kejriwal also said his own funds are open to scrutiny. Kejriwal...
07:19 AM, Oct 14, 2012
New Delhi: Law Minister Salman Khurshid's wife Louise Khurshid on Friday filed a civil defamation case in the Delhi High Court against a television group for broadcasting a programme alleging that their NGO siphoned off lakhs of rupees meant for physically challenged people. Seeking damages of Rs 100 crore, the lawsuit was filed against the TV Today group for airing the defamatory programme on its channels, Headlines Today and Aaj...
09:31 AM, Oct 13, 2012
Bangalore: Hundreds of destitute people may go hungry due to the government's cap on LPG cylinders. The cap has risen pressure on NGOs who offer food, but say the new rule is hampering their work. At 'Home of Hope', a home for the abandoned, there is a fresh crisis. Now that the government has limited subsidised LPG cylinders to six, Auto Raja, the man who runs the home can no...
08:06 AM, Oct 12, 2012
New Delhi: India Against Corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal is keeping up the pressure on the UPA. He and a group of differently-abled people will stage a protest at the Prime Minister's 7 Race Course Road residence. They are demanding action against Law Minister Salman Khurshid for alleged malpractices by his UP-based NGO that deals with the differently-abled. Earlier this week, a Hindi news channel had alleged that an NGO run...
07:32 AM, Oct 12, 2012
More often than not media is accused of focussing only on showcasing grim and serious stories, is there is there a scope for positive stories in the news space? Stories of courage, hope, inventions, discoveries, harmony and peace. CNN-IBN's Karma Paljor joins a discussion in a Google+ Hangout. ...
05:36 PM, Oct 11, 2012
New Delhi: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington and Samuel L Jackson are in the star cast of Quentin Tarantinos film Django Unchained. The movie is expected to hit the screens in December 2012. ...
01:41 PM, Oct 11, 2012
Rober Vadra, in a Facebook post, wrote 'Mango people in a banana republic'. Tonight at 10, CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel of experts whether the elite should be much more careful about how they speak. You can ask a question to our panelists here or tweet us @face_the_nation.
11:14 AM, Oct 11, 2012
New Delhi: On World Mental Health Day CNN-IBN finds out how being mentally ill is still a stigma. Thirty mentally ill women have been abandoned in Delhi. They have been living in a dilapidated amphitheatre for the past three years in Delhi. Open to the harsh Delhi summers and winters, the amphitheatre in the city's Kabir Basti has been home to the 30 mentally disabled women. After a 2009 order...
10:12 AM, Oct 10, 2012
On The Last Word, Karan Thapar asks a panel of experts - How should we judge between Kejriwal's allegations and DLF, Vadra's rebuttal? ...
09:34 PM, Oct 08, 2012
After facing allegations of financial irregularities for the last three days, Robert Vadra on Monday decided to close his Facebook account. ...
07:04 PM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: Even as the government ruled out a probe into business dealings between Robert Vadra and realty major DLF, the war of words between activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal and Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law on the social media over the corruption charges continued to evoke sharp political reactions across the country on Monday. While Finance Minister P Chidambaram said the government cannot look into private transactions unless there are specific allegations of...
06:30 PM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: Social activist Arvind Kejriwal on Monday took a dig at the son-in-law of Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Robert Vadra over his Facebook status that read, 'Mango men in a banana republic', in an apparent jibe at Kejriwal and senior Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan who have accused Vadra of financial impropriety. Hitting back at Vadra over his status and taking the term 'aam aadmi' quite literally, Kejriwal tweeted,...
03:42 PM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra on Monday deleted his Facebook account after a furore over his new status message that read, "Mango people in a banana republic," in an apparent dig at India Against Corruption (IAC) member Arvind Kejriwal and senior Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan, who on Friday, levelled allegations of corruption against him. Before deleting his account, Vadra reportedly wrote on his page, "Obviously...
02:02 PM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: After reports that Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra posted a new Facebook status that read, 'Mango people in banana republic', India Against Corruption (IAC) asked him to apologise. IAC member Arvind Kejriwal's associate Kumar Vishwas demanded that Vadra apologise for insulting India by calling it a banana republic. "Today Robert Vadra has written 'mango people in banana republic' on his Facebook page. He insulted our country...
10:51 AM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: After reports that Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra posted a new Facebook status that read, 'Mango people in banana republic', India Against Corruption (IAC) asked him to apologise. IAC member Arvind Kejriwal's associate Kumar Vishwas demanded that Vadra apologise for insulting India by calling it a banana republic. "Today Robert Vadra has written 'mango people in banana republic' on his Facebook page. He insulted our country...
08:36 AM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: It is said that the rocker quartet from the British dockside town of Liverpool, The Beatles, started their big-league journey exactly fifty years back when on September 4, 1962, they recorded their first single 'Love Me Do' at the iconic Abbey Road Studios of EMI in London. Accordingly, tributes have been pouring in from all and sundry. People on social networking sites have had their profile pictures replaced...
01:41 PM, Oct 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has directed a private school to admit two poor visually-impaired girl students to Class 11 during the current session and also to provide hostel accommodation to them. A division bench of Chief Justice D Murugesan and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw Wednesday issued direction to the government-aided school in Vikaspuri in west Delhi on the petition of NGO Social Jurist. NGO's advocate Ashok Agarwal said...
02:51 AM, Oct 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has asked state governments to provide educational, sanitation and drinking water infrastructure in the schools including separate toilet facilities for boys and girls, drinking water facilities, sufficient class rooms and the appointment of teaching and no-teaching staff within six months. There are 1,096,064 government schools. Out of these, 624,074 schools have girl toilets and 824,605 schools have common toilets for boys and girls. An apex...
12:54 AM, Oct 05, 2012
