New Delhi: Breaking his silence on the IPL spot-fixing scandal that has maligned Indian cricket, IPL chief Rajiv Shukla has said that he "was not hiding" and the BCCI will do everything it takes "to weed out" corruption.
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CNN-IBN: Your first reaction, four cricketers in police custody, answering questions from police interrogators. There's s much alleged stories about them having nexus with the under-world, what is your initial reaction?
Rajiv Shukla: My reaction is that we all are very sad. Lead was going in such a fantastic way, suddenly this thing has come. And I would like to congratulate the Delhi Police for unearthing this incident and I mean they've caught these players and are investigating this whole issue; the BCCI, IPL, they all will cooperate with Delhi Police, they should thoroughly investigate and whoever is found guilty would be severely punished. At BCCI level they will be punished and Delhi police should also initiate the legal proceedings as per the Indian laws. ...
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01:43 PM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: Breaking his silence on the IPL spot-fixing scandal that has maligned Indian cricket, IPL chief Rajiv Shukla has said that he "was not hiding" and the BCCI will do everything it takes "to weed out" corruption. Here are the excerpts: CNN-IBN: Your first reaction, four cricketers in police custody, answering questions from police interrogators. There's s much alleged stories about them having nexus with the under-world, what is...
01:43 PM, May 18, 2013
Will suspending MPs who create indiscipline change the way Parliament proceedings are conducted? CNN-IBN's Deputy Bureau Chief Pallavi Ghosh joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. The real reason for disruption is not that these MPs are concerned about public welfare but there own petty politics as these disruptions have risen in coalition politics which breeds on horsetrading and corruption so many of these regional parties bargain...
07:13 PM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: After Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, now Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will spell out the government's reforms roadmap in his first interaction with business leaders at the annual general meeting of industry body Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on Thursday. This is being seen as a move to counter Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as Rahul Gandhi has been trying to woo the business community as well. Rahul...
08:25 AM, Apr 04, 2013
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi in his office at AICC headquarters in New Delhi on Wednesday. ...
12:30 PM, Jan 24, 2013
Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday officially took charge as Congress Vice President. ...
11:53 PM, Jan 23, 2013
Defying a law against defacement of public places, sycophantic Congress leaders in the capital have vied with one another in hailing the elevation of Rahul Gandhi as party vice president by plastering the city with congratulatory posters. Hundreds of posters and billboards, in English and in Hindi, have been pasted on trees, lamp posts, bus stops and even push carts. ...
06:36 PM, Jan 23, 2013
Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday officially took charge as Congress Vice President but in spite of addressing a press conference declined to take any questions. ...
06:28 PM, Jan 23, 2013
What does Rahul Gandhi's elevation as the Congress vice president mean for the Indian democracy? ...
10:45 PM, Jan 21, 2013
Joe Biden, who was on Sunday sworn in as the US Vice President for a second term, made a gaffe hours ahead of his oath ceremony by calling himself "proud president of the United States". "I'm proud to be president of the United States," Biden told his supporters at the Iowa State Society inauguration ball on Saturday. ...
09:59 PM, Jan 20, 2013
US Vice President Joe Biden was on Sunday officially sworn for his second term, hours before President Barack Obama takes his second oath of office at the White House. 70-year old Biden was administered the oath of office on his family bible by the Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor at a private ceremony at his official residence here, following a private mass. ...
09:03 PM, Jan 20, 2013
The three-day Chintan Shivir deliberations have filled the Congress with "new energy and resolve" and if the party abides by its new declaration, nothing can stand in the way of its progress, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi said on Sunday. Thanking party delegates at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) meet here, Gandhi expressed happiness over the manner in which party business was transacted over the three days and hailed it...
08:35 PM, Jan 20, 2013
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday reacted to Rahul Gandhi's appointment as the Congress Vice President by raising questions over his potential, saying it has to be seen whether the nation accepts him as a leader on the basis of "family inheritance". "The world's largest democracy cannot be put to risk by risking ourselves in the hands of those whose actual potential we do not know, whose opinion on...
06:05 PM, Jan 20, 2013
Newly-appointed Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday stressed the need to change the "centralised system" which is unaccountable to the people, and respect the youths' demand for a greater role in decision-making. "The time has come to question the centralised, unaccountable system. Decision making must shift from Delhi to the panchayat," Gandhi said, speaking on the last day of three-day introspection meet of the All India Congress Committee (AICC)....
05:40 PM, Jan 20, 2013
The Congress has played its 'brahmastra'. Its 'yuvraj', for long a PM-in-waiting, has officially become the second in command of the grand old party as it gears up for 2014 polls. However, high hopes have regularly turned to disappointment when it comes to Rahul Gandhi. At 42, he's two years older than his father Rajiv when he became Prime Minister and there are fears that the youth icon's charisma is...
07:25 AM, Jan 20, 2013
Major changes are likely in Congress with Rahul Gandhi being formally elevated as its Vice President. Indications to this effect were given by party General Secretary Digvijay Singh who said that generally when a new leader comes, he brings in his team. ...
03:41 AM, Jan 20, 2013
Newly-appointed Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday thanked party leaders for honouring him with the No 2 post and said he was confident they could "transform" the Congress party. ...
12:38 AM, Jan 20, 2013
Celebrations broke out on Saturday night outside the venue of Congress 'Chintan Shivir' in Jaipur after Rahul Gandhi was made the party Vice President with numerous young workers setting off crackers, beating drums and shouting slogans welcoming the decision. As soon as the announcement was made at the venue by Congress chief spokesman Janardan Dwivedi, thousands of NSUI, Youth Congress workers and partymen, who had assembled at different places near...
10:59 PM, Jan 19, 2013
Catapulted to the top rung of Congress leadership, the party's youth icon Rahul Gandhi, touted as the future prime minister, faces the daunting task of reversing the slide in its support base and harvest the soaring young population into its voters. ...
09:22 PM, Jan 19, 2013
The main Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday brushed away Rahul Gandhi's elevation to Congress's vice president post as "Congress's internal matter". "There is nothing big in it. Rahul Gandhi was always number two after Sonia Gandhi. Elevation of Rahul Gandhi to number two will not change anything," BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain said. ...
09:00 PM, Jan 19, 2013
