Kolkata: Two more people committed suicide in West Bengal on Monday over the chit fund scam case. In the first case, the father of a ponzi scheme agent committed suicide at Sodepur in North 24 Parganas. Sixty five-year-old Jagdish Roy was upset after his son who had a total liability of Rs 1 crore was heckled by investors at his house. His son Bidhan was an agent of Annexe group...
05:09 PM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: The troubles are mounting for the UPA as the Opposition turns up the heat on two of its ministers, Law Minister Ashwani Kumar and Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, demanding that they be sacked over the coal blocks allocation scam probe case and the Railway Board bribery case respectively. Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj threatened that Parliament will be allowed to function until the two...
04:40 PM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha has approved the extension of the term of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on 2G scam till the end of Monsoon Session. The Monsoon Session is likely to begin around July 23. Facing a combined Opposition and allegations of bias, the chairman of JPC, PC Chacko had held informal consultation with the members. Sources say the BJP had agreed for an extension. The tenure of the...
03:19 PM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: Chairman of the joint Parliamentary Committee on the 2G scam PC Chacko is likely to move a resolution in the Lok Sabha seeking extension of the JPC beyond the Budget Session. Sources say that the BJP has agreed to the extension of the JPC beyond May 10. After Lok Sahba Speaker Meira Kumar expressed her inability to remove him as JPC Chairman as demanded by 15 opposition members...
02:30 PM, May 06, 2013
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said the government will accept the Supreme Court's verdict. "SC will tell us what were the our limits in this particular case," he said. ...
01:30 PM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: Reacting promptly on the affidavit submitted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) before the Supreme Court in connection with the coal scam on Monday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Law Minister Ashwani Kumar "should resign right away". "The government has lost the moral ground to continue in power," said BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain, adding the affidavit has proved that all...
12:52 PM, May 06, 2013
Taking on the BJP for repeatedly asking for the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Law Minister Ashwani Kumar and Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, Congress MP V Narayanasamy on Monday said that the main Opposition party has double standards and it doesn't want Parliament to function. ...
11:58 AM, May 06, 2013
Srinagar: Normal life was on Monday disrupted in Kashmir Valley due to a strike called by Medical Employees Joint Action Forum (MEJAF) against the alleged failure of government to bring to book those involved in the spurious drug scam. Shops, business establishments and educational institutions remained closed due to the strike which was called on the opening day of the civil secretariat in Srinagar. Though most of the public transport...
11:48 AM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: Law Minister Ashwani Kumar, Attorney General Goolam E Vahanvati, one Joint Secretary rank official each from the Prime Minister's Office and the Coal Ministry not only saw the draft status report on the coal scam case, but also ordered some changes in it, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) told the Supreme Court in a fresh affidavit submitted on Monday. The nine-page affidavit submitted by CBI Director Ranjit...
11:42 AM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: Under fire from the Opposition to quit, Law Minister Ashwani Kumar is set to face more heat on Monday. The Central Bureau of Investigation will disclose the full extent of the Law Minister's involvement in vetting the coal scam report its reply to the Supreme Court on Monday. CNN-IBN's Manoj Gupta has accessed the details of the CBI's reply to several questions posed by the Supreme Court. The...
08:29 AM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: Union Railway Minister Pawan Bansal and Law Minister Ashwani Kumar are not going to resign just as yet. The Congress Core Group, which met on Sunday evening, has decided to fight it out with the Opposition over the railway bribery and coal scam controversies. Sources say that the allies, too, are backing the Congress on both these issues. "I don't think it is in keeping with the canons...
07:53 AM, May 06, 2013
Kolkata: Attacking West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, her predecessor and CPI-M leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Sunday termed as "lies" her statement that she knew nothing about the chit fund scam before the Bengali New Year day. "New she says I did not know anything before Polia Baishakh (April 15-Bengali New Year's Day). For some people, lying is a habit. She knew everything. Her government has admitted that in an...
05:34 AM, May 06, 2013
Jamshedpur: Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda on Sunday demanded that the number of Assembly seats in the state be increased to avoid a fractured mandate and provide a stable government. "I strongly favour that Assembly seats be increased from the existing 81 to at least 140 to provide stability in the government," Koda, an Independent MP, told reporters in Jamshedpur. Koda, who was arrested on November 30, 2009 on...
02:54 AM, May 06, 2013
The Congress core group which met on Sunday evening decided to brazen it out and allow these ministers to stay despite the Opposition raising the pitch for their sacking. ...
11:24 PM, May 05, 2013
New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday backed both Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal and Law Minister Ashwani Kumar and said no decision will be taken till the investigations are complete in both Railway bribery and coal scam. After the Congress core group meeting on Sunday evening, Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari said that there is no need to pre-judge and that Bansal is ready for a full probe and...
09:32 PM, May 05, 2013
New Delhi: A day ahead of filing a crucial affidavit in the Supreme Court on coal scam which has rocked the UPA government, CBI Director Ranjit Sinha on Sunday affirmed that the agency's probe into the matter was "clean and clear" and that no accused or suspect had been let off. The apex court hearing the matter on May 8 may decide the political fate of Union Law Minister Ashwini...
08:55 PM, May 05, 2013
Kolkata: The manager of Saradha Group's Raniganj branch office was arrested on Sunday. Two of the company's offices in Birbhum in West Bengal were also sealed and computers, certificates and bonds worth Rs 23,000 were seized. This after an investor lodged a complaint against the company. The Economic Offence Wing of Crime Branch of Odisha Police on Saturday also sealed office of Saradha Group at Balasore. A team of the...
04:20 PM, May 05, 2013
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to tell the Supreme Court on Monday that the agency's status report on coal scam was changed by Law Minister Ashwani Kumar. The details of the CBI affidavit, which it will submit before the Supreme Court on Monday, has been accessed by CNN-IBN. The CBI has reportedly made it clear in its affidavit that the status report was shown to...
01:18 PM, May 05, 2013
Milan: The former CEO of the Italian defense giant Finmeccanica was released on Saturday from jail pending his trial on corruption charges in June. Giuseppe Orsi, who was held for some 80 days in pre-trial detention, faces charges for his alleged involvement in the payment of bribes to secure a 560 million euro ($670 million) deal to sell 12 helicopters to India. A speedy trial for Orsi, who was head...
12:56 PM, May 05, 2013
The SC on April 30 tore into the UPA government and the Central Bureau of Investigation demanding answers on the government's alleged interference in the CBI coal allocations probe. ...
12:26 PM, May 05, 2013
