Bangalore: The Antrix-Devas controversy has been showing no signs of blowing over. Portions from a report by a former chief vigilance commissioner have been made public. It says there are discrepancies in the way ISRO attempted to sell the precious radio wave spectrum to a private company. The offensive from the government continued. Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office V Narayanasamy said, "Madhavan Nair also appeared personally before...
11:47 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Chennai: The Central Government cancelled the Antrix Corporation-Devas Multimedia deal for reasons of national security and not for purported loss of revenue in sale of spectrum, Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office V Narayanasamy has said. He also said the government was not discriminating between space scientists and Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officials and, based on their culpability, punitive action would be taken against the latter too. "We...
05:32 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Bangalore: The Pratyush Sinha-chaired High Level Team (HLT) has not just indicted former ISRO chief G Madhavan Nair and three other space scientists, but has recommended investigation into the functioning and operations of Devas since its inception. According to conclusions and recommendations of the five member HLT, Devas was established by Forge Advisors USA (FA-USA) in December 2004 (a month before it signed the deal with Antrix) with a share...
06:02 PM, Feb 05, 2012
New Delhi: Former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief G Madhavan Nair and three other scientists who were primarily behind the Antrix-Devas deal were indicted on Saturday night. The ISRO on Saturday released details of the report of two government-appointed Committees on the controversial deal between its commercial wing Antrix and Devas Multimedia. The report prepared by a committee headed by Pratyush Sinha, former Chief Vigilance Commissioner, said Antrix-Devas deal...
07:48 AM, Feb 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) on Wednesday said that the office stands by the order of banning former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief G Madhavan Nair from government jobs. There was a committee set up under former CVC Pratyush Sinha and the committee has given the report on the controversial Antrix-Devas deal. On the basis of this report the government has taken the decision of banning Madhavan...
12:51 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: Former central vigilance commissioner Pratyush Sinha said that the CVC as an institution should be above any controversy. Sinha made the statement while reacting to the Supreme Court verdict striking down the appointment of PJ Thomas as the CVC. "CVC as an institution should be above any controversy. I feel saddened because of the controversy the CVC office has come into," said Sinha. The Supreme Court on Thursday...
12:25 PM, Mar 03, 2011
New Delhi: As the 2G spectrum case gets murkier, former Central Vigilance Commissioner Pratyush Sinha has alleged that the Telecom ministry officials were non-cooperative and had tried to delay the probe undertaken by the anti-corruption watchdog in the matter. Sinha, who retired in August last year as Central Vigilance Commissioner after a four-year tenure, said the ministry had disobeyed the Commission's advice and gave licenses on first-come first-serve basis as...
02:29 PM, Feb 06, 2011
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Kolkata: Indian Premier League champion Kolkata Knight Riders - co-owned by Bollywood heartthrob Shah Rukh Khan - will be accorded a grand reception with offerings of sweets, cakes, jewellery and songs at the end of a 6-km long victory parade in Kolkata on Tuesday. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will take the lead in felicitating the cricketing heroes. The main programme will be held at the historic Eden Gardens...
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