The PM said no one from the Congress or the govt indulged in any unlawful activity during the trust vote. ...
11:14 PM, Mar 23, 2011
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday took potshots at octogenarian LK Advani, saying the former deputy prime minister has not forgiven him for becoming the prime minister which the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader thought was his birthright. "Advaniji believes that prime ministership is his birthright. He has not forgiven me," said Singh in his reply to the discussion on WikiLeaks revelation of US diplomatic cables on the...
06:02 PM, Mar 23, 2011
New Delhi: Facing a united Opposition attack in Parliament on Wednesday over the WikiLeaks disclosure, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh strongly denied allegations that his government paid MPs cash for votes during a crucial floor test in 2008. "None from the Congress party or from the government indulged in any unlawful activity during trust vote...nor authorised anyone to indulge in such unlawful activity," Singh said in Lok Sabha. "We have chosen...
10:39 AM, Mar 23, 2011
New Delhi: More WikiLeaks revelations have emerged from the over five thousand US diplomatic cables on India that have been accessed by the Hindu newspaper. The Hindu reported that the FBI did not respond to India's requests for assistance in the IC 814 hijacking investigation as it did not want to cooperate in what it internally dubbed as a "fishing expeditions". India had sought access to Taliban records which were...
08:15 AM, Mar 23, 2011
New Delhi: After sustained Opposition pressure and full scale drama in Parliament - the UPA has finally agreed on a discussion on the WikiLeaks cable that confirmed the cash-for-votes scandal. The Opposition has been gunning for the PM ever since he denied that no bribes were paid during that crucial trust vote in 2008 "No money changed hands, said Manmohan Singh in a statement on wikileaks made in the Lok...
07:24 AM, Mar 23, 2011
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh deliberately misled Indians over a diplomatic cable involving the Congress party in a vote-buying scandal, WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange said on Monday. Singh last week denied that any members of the Congress-led coalition government were involved in buying votes to win a confidence vote in 2008 and questioned the veracity of the claims, which were aired in a US diplomatic cable obtained by WikiLeaks....
05:11 PM, Mar 22, 2011
New Delhi: Rajya Sabha witnessed uproarious scenes leading to three adjournments over the issue of WikiLeaks expose and reported telecom irregularities during NDA regime. As soon as Leader of the Opposition Arun Jaitley rose to say that he had given two notices - one on privilege motion against the Prime Minister and the other seeking a discussion under Rule 176, which does not entail voting. Deputy Chairman K Rahman Khan...
12:18 PM, Mar 22, 2011
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Did the UPA use cash to win the trust vote in 2008? It would be naive to believe that it did not. Should Manmohan Singh ...
11:24 AM, Mar 21, 2011
New Delhi: The latest WikiLeaks cables point to a static, dormant Indo-US relationship, with bilateral ties going nowhere. The Hindu newspaper has accessed the leaked cables which show that American officials are not happy with what they saw as the UPA government's "frustratingly cautious'' approach to Indo-US bilateral ties. They blame India's bereaucracy for a lot of the those problems. A cable dated January 8, 2008 from then US Ambassador...
08:08 AM, Mar 21, 2011
On this week's episode of Devil's Advocate Karan Thapar talks with the former foreign secretary on WikiLeaks. ...
03:42 PM, Mar 20, 2011
Hello and welcome to The Devil's Advocate. Do The Hindu's WikiLeaks expose suggest that America was arm twisting India and that sometimes Indian officials were speaking far more than they should? Those are the key issues I shall explore today with the man who was foreign secretary at the time Shyam Saran. Karan Thapar: Mr. Saran, let's start with the cables that feature you. There are whole series of reports...
03:27 PM, Mar 20, 2011
Delhi BJP was on Saturday hit by the Wikileaks expose with US diplomatic cables stating that the party leadership had told them that its criticism of the US in public was to score "easy political points" against UPA and when in power, it would not harm the Indo-US nuclear deal. The expose, published by 'The Hindu', drew immediate strong reaction from ruling Congress which asked BJP to apply to itself...
04:36 PM, Mar 19, 2011
On Talking Point, Rajdeep Sardesai asks, 'Can the PM wash his hands of the WikiLeaks expose?' ...
10:27 PM, Mar 18, 2011
Karan Thapar: Hello and welcome to a very special edition of the Last Word. The Hindu's WikiLeaks exposes have created a furore. The opposition claims this is proof of American arm-twisting and Congress corruption in politics. The government dismisses the cables as unverified and subjective. So today we ask where does the truth lie? That's with the Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu, N Ram; America's Ambassador to India at the time...
08:28 PM, Mar 18, 2011
The Opposition is questioning the government after the WikiLeaks revelation that the UPA government paid heavy sums to MPs to buy votes for the Nuclear deal trust vote in the Parliament. While it remains to be seen whether the revelations are authentic or not, the question is, 'Are we over reacting to the WikiLeaks revelation?'
05:54 PM, Mar 18, 2011
On The Last Word, Karan Thapar discusses the Wikileaks revelation with N Ram and David Mulford. ...
05:05 PM, Mar 18, 2011
What is one to make of Manmohan Singh? Is he a clean politician forced by circumstance to travel with a boatload of crooks? A radical economic reformer trapped in the wrong party at the wrong time? Or is he just plain incompetent and irresponsible? Consider his recent statements and actions (or rather, in-actions). He dismissed A Rajas 2G skullduggery as being the result of coalition politics. Apparently, coalition compulsions are...
02:19 PM, Mar 18, 2011
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday appeared to raise doubts over the veracity of diplomatic correspondence cited by the WikiLeaks and insisted that he had "not authorised anybody" to purchase votes nor was he involved in any such "transactions". Under fire from the Opposition, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh defended the government in Parliament on Friday saying that no evidence was found in the cash-for-votes scam. "I think, people...
11:29 AM, Mar 18, 2011
New Delhi: The appointment of Pranab Mukherjee and not P Chidambaram or Montek Singh Ahluwalia as the finance minister of India during the second term of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) seemed to have caused the United States of America some heartburn. According to the latest WikiLeaks cable published by 'The Hindu', Pranab appointment as the Finance Minister of India led to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reportedly...
10:24 AM, Mar 18, 2011
