Mumbai: After Ashok Chavan, former Maharashtra chief ministers Vilasrao Deshmukh and Sushil Kumar Shinde have been summoned in the Adarsh scam case. The Adarsh Judicial Commission has directed Deshmukh to appear before it on June 21 and 22. Sushil Kumar Shinde has been told to appear on June 25 and 26. Chavan had on Tuesday sought exemption to appear as a witness before the two-member commission probing the Adarsh housing...
01:28 PM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: No nepotism in distributing tickets, declaring candidates almost a year before polls, easy accessibility of the CM, PCC chief and CLP leaders to party workers and strict enforcement of discipline are some of the recommendations of the Congress committee that went into party's debacle in Uttar Pradesh. The report of the three-member committee, headed by Defence Minister AK Antony, was submitted to Congress President Sonia Gandhi a few...
03:51 AM, May 08, 2012
Istanbul: India's Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Saturday said that the government is augmenting domestic capacity for building critical and ultra-super critical technologies based power plants to meet the growing need for electricity. "Domestic capacities for building power plants with super critical and ultra-super critical technologies are being established to reduce the coal requirement of electricity production," Shinde said in his address to the World Energy Leaders Summit being...
03:49 AM, Apr 22, 2012
New Delhi: Former Telecom Minister A Raja on Wednesday subjected erstwhile Telecom Secretary DS Mathur to intense questioning during his cross-examination in the 2G case, prompting the court to caution the DMK leader and his counsel against raising their voices. During Mathur's cross-examination by Raja's counsel Sushil Kumar, the "loud language" used by the advocate in questioning him irked Special Judge OP Saini, who asked the counsel to desist from...
04:26 AM, Apr 12, 2012
Mumbai: The heat is on three former Maharashtra Chief Ministers Ashok Chavan, Vilasrao Deshmukh and Sushil Kumar Shinde in the Adarsh Housing Society scam. It remains to be seen whether there will be more high-profile arrests. The CBI arrested senior IAS officer Jairaj Pathak and former State Information commissioner Ramanand Tiwari on Tuesday. They are likely to be questioned on Wednesday. Meanwhile, a special CBI court is likely decide on...
10:40 AM, Apr 04, 2012
Mumbai: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested four persons in the Adarsh Housing Society scam in Mumbai. Those arrested are retired defence estates officer RC Thakur, Brigadier (retired) MM Wanchoo, former deputy secretary of the urban development department PV Deshmukh and former MLC Kanhaiyalal Gidwani. Gidwani is already in judicial custody in another case. Earlier in January 2011, the CBI had registered an FIR against 14 people. The...
12:03 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Nagpur: Former Army Chief General VP Malik has observed that India must step up the vigil along the Chinese border in Arunachal Pradesh as its eastern neighbour might try to "forcefully occupy" Indian territories. "India should remain vigilant from evil designs of China which may forcibly occupy some of the territories in north west and in Arunachal Pradesh," he said. Malik was speaking at a function here last night. "India...
03:30 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Irked over Centre's approach over CST compensation, states on Monday asked it to either compensate them adequately for their revenue loss due reduction in the Central Sales Tax (CST) or increase the levy to earlier rate of 4 per cent. The state Finance Ministers, during their meeting, also finalised a negative list of 35 services which would not be taxed under proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime. "If the...
06:01 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Patna: Bihar's average economic growth rate in the past five years stood at 11.3 per cent, Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi said on Monday. Quoting a report by the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) on the basis of 2004-05 price base, Modi said the economic growth rate of Bihar over the past five years stood at 11.3 per cent and the same in 2011-12 is expected at 13.13 per cent....
06:26 PM, Feb 14, 2012
Chandigarh: A plane carrying Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi made an emergency landing at the airport in Chandigarh after it developed a technical snag, officials said. The pilot was forced to land the plane after its navigation system malfunctioned, they said. Modi along with BJP leader Smriti Irani and the crew were safe, they added. The Bihar Deputy Chief Minister was on an election campaign for the SAD-BJP...
04:32 PM, Jan 27, 2012
New Delhi: KBC winner Sushil Kumar Tuesday denied reports that he had complained about not getting his Rs.5 crore prize money, saying Sony officials were constantly in touch with him and he had complete faith that he would get it. "I have never said that I haven't got a single penny of the prize money. The channel had already told me that the money would be given to me in...
05:57 PM, Dec 13, 2011
New Delhi: Bihar's Sushil Kumar, who made headlines when he became the first contestant to win Rs 5 crore on 'Kaun Banega Crorepati 5', hasn't received his prize money yet. Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, host of the show, says the former's cheque is ready, but he wants it at the CNN-IBN Award ceremony. "People asking why Sushil Kumar not paid his KBC win.. cheque ready, but he wants it at CNN-IBN...
11:17 AM, Dec 13, 2011
Mumbai: Sushil Kumar hasn't be given the Rs 5 crore he won on the show. And India's first Rs 5-crore winner on Kaun Banega Crorepati might have to move out of his hometown in Bihar, just to let his family live in peace. Apparently, while he still hasn't received a single paisa of the winning amount, he is being flooded with requests for doling out monetary help to people from...
07:10 PM, Dec 12, 2011
Patna: A woman wants Rs 20 lakh for her daughter's wedding, a man wants another Rs 20 lakh to meet an emergency, a priest wants donation in return for divine blessings, Sushil Kumar, whose tryst with KBC has reinforced the middle class's faith in fairy tales, is suddenly being approached by random strangers, demanding a 'small' pie of the Rs 5-crore cake. Kumar, a small-time computer operator who captured the...
06:29 PM, Dec 06, 2011
Patna: A woman wants Rs 20 lakh for her daughter's wedding, a man wants another Rs 20 lakh to meet an emergency, a priest wants donation in return for divine blessings " Sushil Kumar, whose tryst with KBC has reinforced the middle class's faith in fairy tales, is suddenly being approached by random strangers, demanding a 'small' pie of the Rs 5-crore cake. Kumar, a small-time computer operator who captured...
11:40 AM, Dec 06, 2011
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