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
New Delhi: Former telecom minister A Raja's personal secretary RK Chandolia on Friday accused the CBI of selective inaction and claimed that the Tatas and Neera Radia are equal conspirators in the 2G scam and the CBI of deliberately let them off. Pleading not guilty to all the CBI charges, Chandolia said in court, "They (CBI) roped me in because after one year of investigation the CVU bargained with me...
10:09 PM, Jul 29, 2011
New Delhi: The CBI will interrogate the former telecom minister A Raja, former telecom secretary Sidharth Behuria and ADAG Group MD Gautam Doshi on Monday in connection with a second chargesheet into the 2G spectrum scam. Patiala House Court accepted CBI's plea to interrogate the three after CBI had sought permission from Court to interrogate them. The CBI had earlier on July 12 said it wanted to bring in 10...
05:07 PM, Jul 16, 2011
New Delhi: The BJP on Wednesday alleged that the taped conversation between former Telecom Minister A Raja and corporate lobbyist Nira Radia shows that the then finance minister P Chidambaram played a role in the 2G spectrum scam and sought an explanation from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. "There are fairly extensive references in the conversation between former Minister A Raja and Nira Radia on whatever is alleged as the role...
06:42 PM, Jun 15, 2011
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Thursday dismissed pleas for a direction to the CBI to make Reliance ADAG chairman Anil Ambani, Tata group chief Ratan Tata, corporate lobbyist Nira Radia and DMK chief M Karunanidhi's wife Dayalu Ammal, as accused in the 2G spectrum scam. Special CBI Judge OP Saini also imposed a cost of Rs 10,000 each on Delhi-based journalist M Furquan and Ghaziabad's scrap dealer Dharmender Pandey...
04:52 PM, Jun 02, 2011
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