A six-member CBI and Income Tax team has begun its work of examining over 5800 tapes of tapped conversation of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia with politicians, corporate honchos and others. ...
06:34 PM, Apr 03, 2013
In the 2G case, the Supreme Court is likely to pronounce an order on Thursday on the constitution of the team that will probe the contents of the tapes that contain conversations between former corporate lobbyist Nira Radia and others. ...
08:20 AM, Feb 21, 2013
The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought the names of officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Income Tax department and Enforcement Directorate who would scan the transcripts of former corporate lobbyist Nira Radia's telephone intercepts. The investigators would ascertain if there was anything in the transcripts that attracted action under law. ...
06:13 PM, Feb 13, 2013
The Supreme Court will examine the tapes containing phone calls made from and to corporate lobbyist Nira Radia for suspected criminality. In its previous hearing, the Supreme Court stated that conversations will be picked at random from any of the 48 envelopes containing the transcripts of over 5,000 calls. The CBI will probe the matter if the court finds any criminality in the conversations. ...
09:20 AM, Jan 22, 2013
ormer corporate lobbyist Nira Radia, a prosecution witness in the 2G spectrum scam case was expected to depose before a Delhi court this week. However, that may not happen. ...
09:52 AM, Dec 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the income tax (IT) department, which had intercepted 5,800 telephone conversations of corporate lobbyist Nira Radia, to get them transcribed within two months for a proper probe as some of them concern national security. The court was annoyed that in such a "serious matter" the I-T department has not prepared the transcript of all the intercepted calls, some of which relate to...
11:17 AM, Sep 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Central government on Tuesday rejected before the Supreme Court the allegation that the tapped conversation of corporate lobbyist Nira Radia was leaked from its side. The apex court has, however, expressed displeasure and told the government that the probe report on Radia tape leakage was hardly satisfactory. The Supreme Court has pulled up the government for not putting in place a mechanism to prevent such leakage of...
01:13 PM, Aug 28, 2012
New Delhi: The Government on Thursday filed a report in the Supreme Court saying it has been unable to find the source which leaked the tapes containing conversation between corporate lobbyist Nira Radia and others including Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata. "In a nutshell, the report says it is difficult to find by which source it was leaked," a bench comprising justices GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadhaya said, after perusing...
01:22 PM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata on Wednesday faced some questions in the Supreme Court on his petition seeking a direction to the Centre for disclosure of the inquiry report into the leakage of controversial tapes containing conversations of former corporate lobbyist Nira Radia with him and others. A bench of justices GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadhaya asked on how he can seek a copy of the report as...
07:10 PM, Aug 22, 2012
Karthi may not have made an impression with 'Malligadu', but 'Sakuni' presents him a good opportunity to strike back with gusto even better than he did with Na Peru Shiva. Directed by Shankar Dayal, this political satire is produced by Bellamkonda Suresh in Telugu. The film is not a routine political thriller where the hero beats up the baddies or dons the role of a politician to teach his villain...
01:49 PM, Jun 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear Tata Group chairman Rata Tata's plea in the 2G spectrum scam case on Wednesday. Tata had claimed that the corporate lobbyist Nira Radia tapes should not be made public as it infringes on his right to privacy. Tata also sought an investigation into the leak of the Radia's conversations with several politicians, media persons and businessmen. In a significant disclosure, the Centre had...
08:59 AM, Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the government's response to Tata group Chairman Ratan Tata's petition seeking an independent probe into the leakage of tapes containing his conversations with corporate lobbyist Nira Radia. The Supreme Court had also sought response from the government on whether it could share the probe report on leakage of controversial Radia tapes with Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata. On February 16, the...
09:40 AM, Mar 27, 2012
New Delhi: A joint team of the Enforcement Directorate and the CBI will travel to the tax haven nation of British Virgin Islands in connection with its probe against various entities in the 2G spectrum allocation case. The team will leave for the island nation on March 9 after the ED obtained certain leads in the investments made by real estate firm Unitech in the foreign country and also about...
06:32 PM, Mar 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday sought response from the government on whether it could share the probe report on leakage of controversial Radia tapes with Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata. A bench of justices GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadhyay asked the Centre to file its response on Tata's plea, seeking a copy of the report on the probe, which pointed out tampering of the tapes released to the...
01:02 PM, Feb 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre has argued before the Supreme Court that the Nira Radia tapes that were leaked to the media were tampered with. The tapes contained conversations between lobbyist Nira Radia and various industry leaders. The government has also stated that the tapes were not leaked by government agencies. Placing a confidential report in a sealed envelope before a bench headed by Justice GS Singhvi, the government said there...
02:01 PM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: The tweet of the day was from former communication consultant Nira Radia. @nira_radia: Spotted a BJP MP from MadhyaPradesh devouring beef steak at a steakhouse in London. There should be a law against hypocrisy. President Pratibha Patil recently gave her assent to the long-pending Madhya Pradesh Cow Progeny Slaughter Prevention (Amendment) Bill which proposes seven-year imprisonment for cow slaughter. The BJP has strongly pushed for a ban on...
05:41 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: A former aide of A Raja on Wednesday told a local court that corporate lobbyist Nira Radia used to call him "many times" on phone to inquire about the "whereabouts" of former telecom minister. Asservartham Aychar, former additional private secretary of Raja, also claimed that during one of the telephone conversations Radia told him to pass on a message to the then minister that she had sorted his...
09:58 PM, Dec 21, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Centre to place before it the report of the probe ordered into the leakage of "classified documents/telephonic intercepts" of corporate lobbyist Nira Radia's conversations with politicians, businessmen and journalists. A bench of justices GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadhyay asked Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaising to place the report before it by January 31, 2012, when it would take up for final...
08:08 PM, Nov 23, 2011
Nira Radia had been in news in the 2G scam in 2010 when leaked tapes of her conversations appeared in the media. ...
06:27 PM, Oct 30, 2011
New Delhi: In a surprise move, Nira Radia, owner and promoter of Vaishnavi Group which has mandate from Tata group and Mukesh Ambani-led RIL, has announced her exit from the business of communication consultancy. "To give precedence to my personal priorities of family and health, I have decided against renewing any client mandates and to exit the business of communications consultancy," she said in a statement. It is a painful...
04:57 PM, Oct 30, 2011
