New Delhi: With Team Anna under attack for levelling allegations against the Prime Minister, Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday asked Anna Hazare to leave the group which is in the grip of "Naxalite minded crazies" and join him and Ramdev in the fight against graft. "Team Anna has always been in the grip of Naxalite minded crazies. It is time Anna Hazare dump most of Team Anna and...
01:46 PM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday asked Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa to support APJ Abdul Kalam for the post of President instead of NCP leader PA Sangma whom she had already chosen. In a statement, Swamy said she should support Kalam for the post of president. "She should phone him up and persuade him to become her candidate. Sangma has lost all moral authority to be...
05:37 PM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy on Friday demanded a ban on the Indian Premier League (IPL), alleging that the "civilised game" of cricket has been degenerated into a "vulgar" display of money and immorality leading to national security threat. In a statement, Swamy said the ban could be lifted after barring from the management or ownership of teams all persons actively involved in the cinema world or who...
03:00 PM, May 18, 2012
Chennai: As former telecom minister A Raja secured bail in the 2G spectrum case, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Tuesday said the case appeared to be getting "diluted". "I am hearing from you only now. It definitely looks as though it is getting diluted," she said in reply to a question from reporters on a Delhi court granting bail to Raja, the prime accused in the case, 15 months...
05:05 PM, May 15, 2012
New Delhi: After 15 months in jail, former telecom minister and DMK MP A Raja was granted bail by the court of Special CBI Judge OP Saini in New Delhi on Tuesday on a surety of Rs 25 lakh. The 49-year-old Raja, who was the first one to be arrested in the 2G scam and the last one to apply and get bail, cannot visit Tamil Nadu without permission. He...
05:04 PM, May 15, 2012
New Delhi: Following is the chronology of the events in the 2G spectrum allocation scam in which the prime accused and former Telecom Minister A Raja was on Tuesday granted bail: May 2007: A Raja takes over as telecom minister. August 2007: Process of allotment of 2G spectrum for telecom along with Universal Access Service (UAS) Licences initiated by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). September 25, 2007: Telecom ministry issues...
04:02 PM, May 15, 2012
New Delhi: As former telecom minister A Raja got bail on Tuesday in the 2G Scam, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said that the case does not end with the bail. "These are matters of the courts and the law, so we don't want to comment on this. The case doesn't end with his bail. Several people are accused in the case," BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain said. Meanwhile, the DMK...
01:35 PM, May 15, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday granted bail to former telecom minister A Raja in the 2G spectrum scam. The court has asked A Raja to submit Rs 25 lakh as surety. Raja has also been directed not to visit Tamil Nadu without the court's prior permission. A Raja had been in jail for the past 15 months and this was the first time that he had applied for...
12:46 PM, May 15, 2012
New Delhi: Investigation agencies CBI, Enforcement Directorate and Income Tax Department on Thursday submitted to the Supreme Court their status reports on probe into the 2G spectrum allocation scam. The status reports, filed by the three agencies in a sealed cover to the bench of justices GS Singhvi and KS Radhakrishnan, also contained the comments by the Central Vigilance Commission. Taking on record, the status reports filed by various probe...
04:48 PM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday invoked an oft-quoted line of Jesus Christ to dismiss the Bharatiya Janata Party's allegation that he or his son had financially benefited from a telecom deal in 2006 when he was finance minister. "'Father forgive them for they know not what they do' I pray the god forgive their sins," Chidambaram said in the Lok Sabha, recalling a lesson a missionary teacher...
04:09 PM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: The government on Saturday came to Home Minister P Chidambaram's defence in the Aircel-Maxis deal. The Centre said that allegations against Chidambaram's son in the Aircel-Maxis issue levelled by Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy were totally baseless. In a release posted on its websbite, the government denied that there was any delay by the Finance Ministry in the Aircel-Maxis deal. It also said that that application was processed...
07:25 PM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram's son Karthi Chidambaram on Friday sued Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy over the fresh allegations he leveled on the former on Thursday. A notice in this regard has already been issued to Swamy by Karthi's CA K Balachandran. When asked to comment on the development, Swamy said he was not yet sure about getting sued. He said, "I don't know, there are conflicting...
12:56 PM, Apr 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha was adjourned till noon on Friday after the Opposition uproar over demand for dismissal of Home Minister P Chidambaram in the wake of allegations against his son Karti's investments in a telecom company. As soon as the Lok Sabha met, BJP members demanded Chidambaram's dismissal. "Chidambaram has indulged in massive corruption. He should be dismissed as Home Minister immediately," BJP leader Yashwant Sinha said. The...
12:30 PM, Apr 27, 2012
New Delhi: Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy has again leveled serious charges against Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, alleging that the former's son Karthi Chidambaram's firm Advantage made Rs 26 lakh out of a deal with telecom company Aircel, before its takeover by Maxis. According to Swamy, the transaction occurred when Chidambaram was Finance Minister. He has further said that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) cannot conduct a fair...
02:32 PM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Tuesday resume hearing Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy's plea in connection with the 2G spectrum allocation scam case. The Janata Party president wants Union Home Minister P Chidambaram to be named a co-accused in the case. Swamy had alleged that Chidambaram, who was earlier the Finance Minister, was equally culpable along with former Telecom Minister A Raja in deciding the spectrum pricing and...
08:44 AM, Apr 24, 2012
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