Mumbai: An India-Pakistan media conclave in Mumbai has urged the two countries to cut their military expenditure and focus more on socio-economic development. "Increasing tensions between India and Pakistan, piling up of arms worth billions of dollars, helps only arms merchants of the US and other countries... and is not in the interests of India and Pakistan," Karachi Press Club president Tahir Hasan Khan said Saturday. Khan, who is leading...
02:20 AM, May 28, 2012
Washington: US plans for a possible military strike on Iran are ready and the option is "fully available", the US ambassador to Israel said, days before Tehran resumes talks with world powers which suspect it of seeking to develop nuclear arms. Like Israel, the United States has said it considers military force a last resort to prevent Iran using its uranium enrichment to make a bomb. Iran insists its nuclear...
01:07 PM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: India has become the largest importer of arms, surpassing the Chinese share of five per cent of global arms imports during 2007-11, government told the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. "As per a report published in March 2012 by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), India has become the largest importer of arms during 2007-11 and accounted for 10 per cent of global arms import as compared to...
03:48 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: A journalist, who took part in a sting operation conducted by 'Tehelka' to expose wrongdoings in arms deal, on Monday refused to testify as a witness in a court in Delhi against two former officials of the defence ministry facing trial for graft. Journalist Mathew Samuel said that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had not reimbursed his travel and other allowances. He added that he would not...
10:37 AM, May 15, 2012
New Delhi: With the defence ministry dragging its feet on crucial purchases, the Indian Air Force (IAF) is set to lose its conventional edge over Pakistan for the first time since independence. The force's fighter strength is set to hit an all-time low of 31 in the next two years. The largest arms importer in the world with a defence spending of Rs 77,000 crore, India seems to have missed...
09:25 AM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has called for the trial court records on former BJP president Bangaru Laxman in the fake arms deal case. The argument of expediting the case on the basis of Laxman's old age and medical condition has been rejected by the court. Laxman will now have to spend two months in jail. The next date of hearing in the case is July 5. Bangaru Laxman...
11:16 AM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: Former BJP president Bangaru Laxman, who has been give a four-year jail term in fake arms sting case, resigned from the party's National Executive on Monday. A Delhi court had convicted Bangaru Laxman in the 2001 fake arms deal case conducted by newsportal tehelka.com. Bangaru was also fined Rs 1 lakh for taking a bribe of Rs 1 lakh to push a defence deal in a sting operation...
12:44 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Nagpur: Countering the Congress' jibes at the BJP in the wake of conviction of former BJP president Bangaru Laxman in the 2001 fake arms deal case, the party on Saturday said the Congress has no moral right "to lecture them on morality". "Congress should not lecture us on morality," party spokesman Prakash Javadekar told reporters in Nagpur on Saturday. Former BJP president Bangaru Laxman, who was found guilty of accepting...
11:34 PM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: Eleven years after a sting operation showed him taking a bribe of RS 1 lakh, former BJP President Bangaru Laxman was fined Rs 1 lakh and sentenced to four years in prison. His lawyers said they would contest the verdict and in the meanwhile Laxman will continue to stay in Tihar Jail after his conviction on Friday. Bangaru Laxman's body language clearly indicated that he was dejected with...
09:23 PM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court sentenced former BJP president Bangaru Laxman to four years in jail in the 2001 fake arms deal case. Bangaru has also been imposed with a fine of Rs one lakh. Bangaru was convicted for taking a Rs one lakh bribe to push a defence deal in a sting operation 11 years ago. The court came tough on corruption and said in its judgement, "Time to...
08:33 PM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Saturday sentenced former BJP president Bangaru Laxman to four years in jail in the 2001 fake arms deal case. Bangaru has also been imposed with a fine of Rs one lakh. Bangaru was convicted for taking a Rs one lakh bribe to push a defence deal in a sting operation 11 years ago. Bangaru's lawyer Ajay Digpal said outside the court, "Bangaru Laxman has...
03:26 PM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: Former BJP minister Bangaru Laxman was sentenced to four years of jail term by a Delhi court on Saturday and imposed with an additional fine of Rs one lakh, in connection with an arms deal case. Bangaru was convicted for taking a Rs one lakh bribe to push a defence deal in a sting operation 11 years ago. Who is Bangaru Laxman - Bangaru Laxman was a minister...
03:03 PM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Bangaru Laxman has been convicted under the Prevention of Corruption Act in the 2001 Tehelka sting case relating to an alleged arms deal and sentenced to four years in jail. As Laxman goes to jail in the Tehelka sting case, IBNLive compiles a list of 10 most high-profile political convicts who recently went to jail in India: A Raja: Perhaps the most...
02:41 PM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: Former BJP President Bangaru Laxman on Saturday asked for a minimum punishment in the fake arms deal case that he was convicted in on Friday. Bangaru, 72, sought leniency on health grounds, saying that he has undergone bypass surgery twice and is a first time offender. However, the CBI counsel pleaded for maximum punishment of five years for Laxman. Laxman was convicted by a Delhi court for taking...
11:21 AM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: The sting operation by Tehelka newsportal exposing corruption through fictitious defence deal involving former BJP chief Bangaru Laxman on Friday got kudos from a Delhi court which said they acted as "whistle blowers". Despite dubbing the method adopted by the portal as "objectionable", the court said the idea of sting operation was not such that the scribes involved in it would be made accused. "I am of the...
07:08 AM, Apr 28, 2012
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