Washington: Bharatiya Janata Party would make public the names of 800 Indian account holders in Swiss Banks if it comes into power in the 2014 general elections, senior party leader Yashwant Sinha has said. "Of course, we will do. Of course, we will do," Sinha told a small audience at an event organised by a recently formed Washington-based Indian American think-tank Foundation for India and Indian Diaspora Studies (FIIDS). "Will...
05:53 PM, May 30, 2012
HYDERABAD: Tightening its noose around Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddys neck, the CBI on Tuesday reportedly froze the bank accounts of his three companies - Jagathi Publications Pvt Limited, which publishes Saakshi Telugu newspaper, Indira TV, promoter of Saakshi TV, and Janani Infrastructure Ltd, which owns the premises used by both Jagathi Publications and Indira Television.The charge against the three companies is that huge amounts of money were invested...
11:19 AM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: In a development that will boost the fight against black money menace, Switzerland has agreed to provide details of secret bank accounts of individuals sought by India even on the basis of limited information. Under a mutual agreement reached on April 20 between the two countries, Switzerland has agreed to give liberal interpretation to the provisions concerning identities of Indian citizens. "... it is sufficient if the requesting...
03:07 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Mumbai: Tax authorities have warned top Indian carrier Jet Airways its bank accounts will be frozen if it does not clear outstanding dues of about 690 million rupees, local media reported on Sunday. "They have 24 hours to make the payment, failing which their accounts will be frozen," SK Goel, chairman of the Central Board of Excise and Customs, was quoted by the Business Standard newspaper as saying. In a...
01:31 AM, Mar 12, 2012
New Delhi: The bank accounts of national career Air India were on Thursday frozen for not paying service tax. The bank accounts were frozen by the Central Board of Excise and Customs for non payment of service tax amounting up to Rs 25 crore. However, Air India has claimed that negotiations are on to sort out the issue. This is the second time in two months that Central Board of...
10:27 PM, Jan 12, 2012
New Delhi: In order to guard against possible leakage of names figuring in the secret bank accounts lists it has received from foreign shores, the CBDT has ordered the IT department to obtain a signed undertaking from any government entity or department who demands the data for their own probe. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) fears that if these names are leaked and they are publicised, global financial...
12:30 PM, Jan 08, 2012
BJP MP Varun Gandhi filed a RTI on Friday saying that the government needs to name the MPs who have Swiss bank accounts. ...
01:53 PM, Nov 04, 2011
Mumbai: Market research company Speak Asia has stopped payouts to its vendors, clients and staff. In a letter to its members, Speak Asia says payments cannot be processed since its bank accounts in Singapore have been frozen. CNN-IBN had first reported how the market research agency is under the scanner for allegedly misleading subscribers. The Ministry of Company Affairs has ordered a probe into the company and its practices. Speak...
01:41 PM, May 27, 2011
New Delhi: In the wake of comments by WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange about black money stashed abroad by Indians, BJP on Tuesday alleged that the UPA government was not making any effort to bring it back despite being pulled up by the Supreme Court. Speaking to reporters in Burdwan, West Bengal, after an election meeting, senior BJP leader L K Advani said "I have been stressing since 2008 that the...
06:46 PM, Apr 26, 2011
New Delhi: "Was the government sleeping all these years on the issue of blackmoney," the Supreme Court said on Thursday while criticising the Centre's probe restricting to an individual and being evasive about the idea of an investigation by the Special Investigating Team. The apex court said the investigation into the issue of black money required complete and full-fledged involvement of government as the most important question was about the...
06:10 PM, Apr 21, 2011
New York: Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has reportedly moved his family assets from European banks to institutions in Gulf region after Swiss authorities took steps to freeze his foreign accounts. "We're aware of some urgent conversations within the Mubarak family about how to save these assets," a senior intelligence was quoted as saying by the state-run Iranian channel Press TV. "We think their financial advisers have moved some of...
04:01 PM, Feb 14, 2011
Shimla/Dharamsala: Bank accounts of a Trust backed by Karmapa Ugyen Trinley Dorje and its trustees have been frozen in connection with the probe into the seizure of a huge amount of foreign currency from a transit home of the Tibetan spiritual leader. "It (freezing of bank accounts) is part of the investigation process as bank accounts were being thoroughly screened for money transactions," Inspector General of Police P L Thakur...
07:23 PM, Feb 04, 2011
On Talking Point, Rajdeep Sardesai asks, will money stashed in Swiss bank accounts ever come back to India? ...
11:48 PM, Jan 18, 2011
This pact will help India get the details of suspected tax evaders and trace the black money in Swiss bank accounts. ...
10:17 AM, Aug 31, 2010
Former Jharkhand CM has been discharged from the Ranchi hospital. ...
10:56 AM, Nov 08, 2009
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