New Delhi: The government on Saturday countered India Against Corruption (IAC) activist Arvind Kejriwal's claims that it is not acting on the alleged black money list handed over by the French government in 2010. In a statement, the government said that the information received from the French government had been analysed and investigations were being carried out by different authorities under the Income Tax Act. "Information was received in June,...
04:19 PM, Nov 10, 2012
New Delhi: The government has dismissed India Against Corruption activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal's allegations of black money against big corporate houses, saying there is nothing new in it. "Nothing new in the allegations. This has already been discussed in Parliament. Government may issue a statement if required," the government said. Meanwhile, Kejriwal has defended his allegations of black money against big corporate houses. "The government is not able to force the...
07:38 AM, Nov 10, 2012
Congress MP Annu Tandon had rubbished all the allegations made by Arvind Kejriwal against her saying they are completely baseless and malicious. "I deny any such rubbish and whatever he is talking, I don't know about any such thing," she said. ...
08:54 PM, Nov 09, 2012
New Delhi: India Against Corruption activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal on Friday targeted several top Indian business groups and a Congress MP, alleging that they had stashed black money worth several hundred crores in the HSBC Bank in Geneva, Switzerland. He claimed that a senior Congress leader gave him the details about the black money. "The black money from Swiss banks can come but the government doesn't wish to bring it back,"...
02:14 PM, Nov 09, 2012
Vatican City: He already has a billion followers. Now, Pope Benedict XVI will join the Twitter-sphere, tweeting from a personal account along with the world's celebrities, leaders and ordinary folk. Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi made the announcement on Thursday, saying details about Benedict's handle and other information will come when the Vatican officially launches the account, perhaps before the end of the year. The 85-year-old Benedict sent his...
02:41 AM, Nov 09, 2012
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra on Monday deleted his Facebook account after a furore over his new status message that read, "Mango people in a banana republic," in an apparent dig at India Against Corruption (IAC) member Arvind Kejriwal and senior Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan, who on Friday, levelled allegations of corruption against him. Before deleting his account, Vadra reportedly wrote on his page, "Obviously...
02:02 PM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: The Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) on coal blocks is likely to finalise its recommendations with regard to the 31 mines allocated to public sector firms by October 20. "Coal Secretary SK Srivastava has recently conveyed it to Public Accounts Committee that the recommendations of the IMG as far as coal blocks allocated to public sector firms would be finalised by October 20," an official in the Coal Ministry told...
12:13 PM, Oct 07, 2012
Beijing: As part of its anti-pornography drive, Chinese authorities have shut down about 97,000 blog and microblog accounts for spreading pornography and lewd content. According to State Internet Information Office, authorities closed the accounts over the past seven months, Xinhua reported. To curb lewd content from spreading via the Internet and cellphones, authorities banned 164 pornographic publications, the office said. A total of 287 Internet companies were probed and punished...
01:06 PM, Sep 29, 2012
India's current account deficit for the April-June quarter came in at USD16.4 billion, lower than another USD 17.4 billion in the first quarter of last year as well as lower than the USD 21.7 billion in the previous quarter, (Q4FY12). As a percentage of the gross domestic product (GDP) the current account deficit works out to 3.9 per cent lower than the 4.3 per cent, reports CNBC-TV18's Latha Venkatesh. It...
10:24 AM, Sep 29, 2012
New Delhi: Amid furore over coal blocks allocation, the government will place its views before Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) by September 14 on the observations made by CAG. "The Coal Ministry will submit its comments to the PAC on CAG's observations on coal blocks allocations by September 14," a top Coal Ministry official told PTI. The PAC, chaired by BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi has decided to examine the...
12:20 PM, Sep 07, 2012
Hyderabad: Third largest lender ICICI Bank today said it is working towards allowing its customers to make transactions through social networking site Facebook. The Mumbai-based bank's chief technology officer Mukesh Kumar Jain said the bank has Facebook likes close to 8 lakh and claimed that ICICI is the only bank in the world which has an application to see bank statement, as well as put some servicing request on Facebook....
07:29 PM, Sep 05, 2012
New Delhi: With an aim to encourage an investment culture in the country, market regulator Sebi on Monday announced no-frills or basic trading accounts for retail individual investors with no charges applicable for holdings up to Rs 50,000. The investors can hold securities worth up to Rs two lakh in these no-frills accounts, to be called Basic Services Demat Account (BSDA), but the charges would be capped at a maximum...
07:53 PM, Aug 27, 2012
New Delhi: Pushed by India, Twitter has removed six micro-blogging accounts which resembled that of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) amidst government's assertion that action would be taken against those allowing objectionable content. In a communication to the PMO, Twitter has said it has "removed the reported profile(s) from circulation due to violation of our Terms of Service regarding impersonation". This communication has been sent in response to a complaint...
08:34 PM, Aug 24, 2012
New Delhi: Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology, Milind Deora's Twitter account was not functioning on Friday. The users who clicked on his handle (@milinddeora) saw a message "account suspended: The profile you are trying to view has been suspended." But Deora told CNN-IBN his account has gone for verification, adding that normally verification doesn't lead to a temporary suspension. The word spread like wildfire on Twitter. Trinamool...
01:02 PM, Aug 24, 2012
While Twitter agreed to block fake PMO accounts, the Government is under the fire for blocking Twitter accounts of some journalists also. Meanwhile, the Home Ministry and Telecom Ministry seemed confused on whether to block sites or not. ...
11:14 PM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: Social networking site Twitter has agreed to cooperate with the Government in blocking six fake accounts "misrepresenting" Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, officials said on Thursday. Twitter has around 16 million accounts in India. "Twitter has agreed to cooperate in blocking the six fake PM accounts. and we welcome their cooperation. They responded to our complaint, saying we need to follow an internal channel to lodge a formal complaint...
09:42 PM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: Microblogging site Twitter has agreed to block all fake accounts in the name of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). The development comes after the government set a deadline of 12 hours deadline for Twitter and other social media websites to remove objectionable content or face a shutdown in India. But there is major confusion in the government over blocking of Twitter handles and social networking websites pages. The...
03:05 PM, Aug 23, 2012
The Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICAI), one of the largest accounting bodies in the world, will declare online Inter and Final Result for the examinations held in June, 2012, on Wednesday evening. Candidates can log on to http://examicai.in to view their results. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India has, earlier this month, declared the results of the Chartered Accountants Professional Competence and Integrated Professional Competence Examinations held...
02:00 PM, Aug 22, 2012
New Delhi: The government has learnt to have ordered blocking of 80 more Internet pages and user-accounts on Sunday on social networking sites including Facebook, Google and Twitter to avoid panic among Northeast Indians. All these sites were found hosting inflammatory and hateful content, spreading rumours and inciting violence targeting the Northeast Indians, government sources said. On Saturday, the government had issued instructions to block 76 Internet sites, which included...
08:47 PM, Aug 19, 2012
New Delhi: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will meet on August 24 to discuss the CAG report on coal, power and airport scams, Chairman and BJP member Murli Manohar Joshi said on Sunday. Joshi refused to speak on the reports. He further defended the CAG which had come under attack from the government after the reports were tabled. ...
01:29 PM, Aug 19, 2012
