More troubles await former railway minister PK Bansal. It's not just the cash-for-jobs scam probe that could be a big headache for him, but illegal land dealings and his links with an association that the MHA had recommended a ban against could also a problem him in the near future. ...
07:32 PM, May 11, 2013
Pawan Kumar Bansal on Friday evening resigned as Railway Minister following allegations of corrupt practices by his close relatives and aides. Sources say that Bansal was forced to resign after Congress President Sonia Gandhi met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and asked him to force the Railway Minister to put in his papers. ...
11:36 PM, May 10, 2013
Pawan Kumar Bansal on Friday resigned as Railway Minister. ...
09:44 PM, May 10, 2013
Pawan Kumar Bansal resigned as Railway Minister on Friday. ...
09:30 PM, May 10, 2013
Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, who is facing allegations of being involved in the cash for posts scam in the Indian Railways, resigned on Friday. Reacting to the development, BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said the resignation came too late and said Law Minister Ashwani Kumar should also resign. ...
09:21 PM, May 10, 2013
CBI sources say the Railway bribery case is turning out to be a multi-crore scam with roots deeper than what meets the eye. The question is what action did the agency take when it was aware of a similar recruitment scam reported by CNN-IBN in 2010. ...
10:14 PM, May 09, 2013
Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's nephew has been arrested on charges of receiving bribes from a railway official for promotion. ...
08:24 PM, May 09, 2013
The dual-power centre in the Congress now seems to be split wide open with differences emerging over the fate of the Law Minister and the Railway Minister. The PM is firmly backing Pawan Bansal and Ashwani Kumar, while many in the party, including Sonia Gandhi, believe their position has become untenable. ...
10:18 PM, May 07, 2013
Pawan Kumar Bansal is under fire over bribery charges against his nephew Vijay Singhla, who is also one of the directors of Jagan Realtors Private Limited, which has several other relatives of Bansal on board. ...
10:12 PM, May 07, 2013
The BJP has now claimed Theon Pharmaceuticals was involved in price fixing. Pawan Kumar Bansal's wife Madhu Bansal, sons Manish Bansal and Amit Bansal are directors in Theon Pharmaceuticals. ...
07:13 PM, May 07, 2013
As the Congress continued to insist Railway Minister Pawan Bansal had no direct link to the job-for-sale scam, CNN-IBN accessed a detailed account of the CBI probe into the role of Bansal's relatives in recent postings and transfers in the Railway Protection Force. ...
10:20 PM, May 06, 2013
Speaking to CNN-IBN, BJP leader Arun Jaitley said the PM, the Railway Minister and the Law Minister must resign in the wake of the latest scams. ...
07:04 PM, May 06, 2013
BJP leader Ram Asrey Kushwaha said the PM and Sonia Gandhi should remove corrupt ministers from the government and Bansal must resign on moral grounds. ...
09:59 AM, May 04, 2013
Days after Rajnath Singh announced his new core team ahead of the 2014 elections, he said Narendra Modi never made any demands in the appointment of office bearers. ...
05:50 PM, Apr 02, 2013
Traffic police in Bangalore have devised a new method of keeping traffic violations in check. The police have mounted cardboard cutouts of police officers around the city to deter violations. ...
12:14 PM, Mar 27, 2013
Market regulator SEBI on Friday moved the Supreme Court seeking detention of Sahara group promoter Subrata Roy Sahara and barring him from leaving the country after two companies of the group failed to comply with court's order to refund Rs 24,000 crore to its investors. ...
11:25 PM, Mar 15, 2013
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, while speaking during BJP's national Executive meet in New Delhi, said President Pranab Mukherjee would have been a better prime minister instead of Manmohan Singh. Modi also called PM Manmohan a night watchman appointed by the UPA. ...
12:00 PM, Mar 03, 2013
A Bengali film has courted controversy after its director alleged political discrimination by the government. The Censor Board in Kolkata denied approval to 'Kangal Malsat', a film by Suman Mukhopadhyay. ...
11:59 PM, Feb 26, 2013
Censor board chairperson Leela Samson welcomed the government's step of considering amendments to the Cinematograph Act. Leela Samson said, "If the government comes up with this, it is the best news I have heard in a long time. We have been defending ourselves in Chennai against what the attorney said in court defending the state government. I am delighted by Manish Tewari's announcement." ...
10:16 AM, Jan 31, 2013
What does the 'Vishwaroopam' controversy tell us about the censor board? About the Jayalalithaa government? And the attitude of the Indian system to freedom of expression? ...
10:00 PM, Jan 30, 2013
