New Delhi: India Against Corruption activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday interacted with netizens and answered their questions on Google+ Hangout. The one-hour session began at 8 pm India time and was aimed at interacting with non-resident Indians (NRIs) in particular. Members of the IAC said on Saturday that they had been receiving a lot of queries from NRIs ever since Kejriwal announced that he will be forming a political party....
08:00 PM, Nov 10, 2012
New Delhi: India Against Corruption (IAC) activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal has refused to accept the government's statement that explained that a probe had been initiated into the information provided by the government of France regarding several Indians who had accounts in foreign banks. Speaking to reporters, Kejriwal said he had five questions for the government. "Do you agree that the names and the amounts, that we disclosed, are there in the...
06:44 PM, Nov 10, 2012
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
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," Kejriwal said. ...
11:47 PM, Nov 09, 2012
Reliance Industries Limited, the HSBC bank, the Dabur group have all denied the charges levelled against them by India Against Corruption activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal who accused their chiefs of having crores of cash deposits in Swiss bank accounts where money, he alleged, was transferred through hawala. ...
11:22 PM, Nov 09, 2012
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," Kejriwal said. ...
10:54 PM, Nov 09, 2012
While IAC leader Arvind Kejriwal may have highlighted HSBC Bank's role in facilitating laundering black money in India, globally the London-headquartered banking major is also under scanner from several international agencies. Here is a look at some of the accusation against HSBC for its questionable transactions. ...
10:46 PM, Nov 09, 2012
Activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal on Friday alleged that Rs 6,000 crore in black money was stashed away in 700 HSBC accounts in Geneva, Switzerland. ...
10:23 PM, Nov 09, 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: Rejecting allegations of stashing away unaccounted money in Swiss accounts, Jet Airways on Friday said there is no account in the name of its Chairman Naresh Goyal in HSBC Bank, Geneva though he is entitled to have bank accounts outside India as he is an NRI. "...There is no account in the name Mr Naresh Goyal in the Swiss bank as has been alleged. Besides, Mr Naresh Goyal...
08:19 PM, Nov 09, 2012
New Delhi: Reliance Industries Limited, the HSBC bank, the Dabur group have all denied the charges levelled against them by India Against Corruption activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal who accused their chiefs of having crores of cash deposits in Swiss bank accounts where money, he alleged, was transferred through hawala. Reliance Industries denied that chief Mukesh Ambani had stashed Rs 100 crore in black money in the HSBC Bank in Geneva. It...
08:16 PM, Nov 09, 2012
New Delhi: Dabur India on Friday regretted allegations made by India Against Corruption activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal against the Burman brothers. "It was unfortunate that every person having a foreign bank account is being painted with the same brush," the Dabur group said in its statement. Kejriwal in a press conference accused HSBC Geneva of money laundering and said that Burman brothers had accounts there. "We wish to state that these...
07:47 PM, Nov 09, 2012
New Delhi: HSBC Bank in India on Friday came out with a cautious reaction to the money laundering allegations made by activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal saying it takes compliance with the law very seriously. Earlier in the day, Kejriwal 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. "HSBC Bank in India...
07:28 PM, Nov 09, 2012
Reacting on the allegations activist turned politician Arvind Kejriwal made against Ambanis and Dabur over the black money stashed in Swiss banks, BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy said the charges deserve investigation. ...
06:47 PM, Nov 09, 2012
Banking Consultant Jasmine Arora said that it was not responsible of Arvind Kejriwal to say that opening an account in Swiss banks is easier. Kejriwal had said that the process of opening an account in the Geneva branch of HSBC Bank was easier than opening an account in the SBI account. "Documents show how easy it is to operate the Swiss accounts sitting here in India. Documents show how money ...
04:05 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
Bhubaneswar Ridiculing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement that money did not grow on trees, yoga guru Ramdev on Friday said money grew under the earth in the form of coal. "Prime Minister Manmohan Singh must be knowing that money grows under the earth in the form of coal. Therefore, he said that money does not grow in trees," Ramdev said on the sidelines of a function in Bhubaneswar. Demanding punishment...
11:04 PM, Oct 05, 2012
Dehradun: Yoga guru Ramdev on Saturday refuted allegations that he was behind the split between Gandhian Anna Hazare and his associates. "Those saying that I caused a split between Hazare and his associates are spreading a canard and indulging in petty politics. I had no role to play in this," Ramdev told a press conference at Patnajali Yogpeeth in Haridwar. He said he will spell out the nature of his...
10:37 PM, Sep 22, 2012
New Delhi: Finance Minister P Chidambaram will hold a meeting with top officials of the Income Tax department on Monday. He is expected to address them later in the day. Sources say he will likely review measures to bolster tax collection and tackle black money. ...
09:49 AM, Sep 03, 2012
