Vellore (TN): Perarivalan and Murugan, facing the gallows in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and lodged at the high-security prison in Vellore, have cleared the Class XII state board exams with flying colours, scoring a little over 91 per cent and 81 per cent respectively. Perarivalan (41) and Murugan (43) scored 1096 and 983 marks respectively out of a total of 1200 in the exam, results of which were announced...
06:30 PM, May 22, 2012
On The Last Word, Karan Thakar asks a panel of experts, is the Indian tradition of taking out multiple large advertisements in all newspapers to commemorate political birth, death or other anniversaries acceptable or morally wrong? ...
10:47 PM, May 21, 2012
On May 21, 1991, former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi reached Chennai by an afternoon-evening flight. After two hours, he was bound for Sriperumbudur, an industrial centre in Kanchipuram district of Tamil Nadu and just 40 km from Chennai. Rajiv was busy campaigning for the mid-term elections which had been announced after the VP Singh-led Janata Dal government had collapsed in October, 1990. The Congress was keen to avenge...
01:25 PM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: The nation on Monday paid homage to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, who was killed in a suicide bomb attack on this day 21 years ago. President Pratibha Patil, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the departed leader's wife and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi went to the late leader's memorial 'Vir Bhumi' here and paid their respects. Rahul and Priyanka also paid floral tributes at the memorial of their...
10:20 AM, May 21, 2012
Members of Team Anna discuss IBN7 Managing Editor Ashutosh's book 'Anna -13 Days That Awakened India' at the book launch. ...
02:21 PM, May 05, 2012
If one were to take a purely transaction-oriented approach to the Bofors deal, one will wonder what the fuss is all about. Even Sten Lindstrom, ...
03:48 PM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: In a breather of sorts for the killers of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, the Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed their mercy plea case to be transferred outside Tamil Nadu. The hearing of the mercy plea case will now take place in the apex court. It must be noted that their plea had earlier been rejected by the Supreme Court. The plea was filed by Murugan, Santhan and...
11:18 AM, May 01, 2012
Bofors scam was raised by the opposition parties in Rajya Sabha as well as Lok Sabha to corner the Congress-led UPA. ...
09:26 PM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: Both Houses of Parliament on Thursday witnessed commotion as Bofors scam was raised by the opposition parties in Rajya Sabha as well as Lok Sabha to corner the Congress-led UPA. The Houses had to be adjourned repeatedly following the uproar on the issue as the treasury and the opposition benches continued to trade charges. While the Opposition demanded a new probe into the scam, the Congress maintained that...
01:18 PM, Apr 26, 2012
Mumbai: Expressing happiness over his name being cleared in the Bofors payoff scam, mega-star Amitabh Bachchan, however, said Wednesday that he is 'pained' that it came after 25 years. Speaking to reporters here, Bachchan welcomed the revelations made by the Swedish investigators in the Bofors case. He said he had "lived with humiliation and loss of reputation" all these years. "I am happy that the truth has emerged after 25...
01:01 PM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI on Wednesday said it is not going to have a re-look in the 23-year-old Bofors payoffs case in the wake of claims made by former Swedish police chief Sten Lindstrom in a media interview. CBI sources ruled out any such possibility, saying it has conducted a comprehensive probe of the matter and filed its charge sheet in the case. On the allegations by Lindstrom, who had...
01:51 AM, Apr 26, 2012
On Wednesday, former Swedish police chief and 'Deep Throat' Sten Lindstrom revealed that while Rajiv Gandhi did not receive any payments in the Bofors deal, he did shield Ottavio Quattrocchi. ...
11:19 PM, Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan has heaved a sigh of relief after 25 years as he was a given a clean chit in the Bofors scam by the whistleblower. Sweden's chief investigator Sten Lindstrom, who conducted the investigations said that Amitabh Bachchan's name was planted by Indian investigating agencies. Speaking on Amitabh Bachchan, he said, "They gave me a list of names to pursue including the name of Amitabh...
10:13 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Former Swedish police chief Sten Lindstrom said in a tell-all interview on Wednesday that Rajiv Gandhi shielded Italian businessman Quattrochi. ...
09:53 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said that the interview of former Swedish police chief Sten Lindstrom in relation to the Bofors scam clearly revealed that the payments made to Ottavio Quattrocchi's company, AE Services, were political payments and since Rajiv Gandhi was close to him, he was not named. In an interview with IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Jaitley added that the judicial and investigative process into the scam...
09:11 PM, Apr 25, 2012
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