The Congress on Wednesday scoffed at the Opposition's attempts to link Italy's refusal to send back its two marines to face investigations here with India's failure in getting the extradition of Bofors scam accused Ottavio Quattrocchi in the past saying both are different cases. ...
06:25 PM, Mar 13, 2013
CNN-IBN's Surya Gangadharan joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the Agusta Westland chopper deal. ...
05:26 PM, Feb 14, 2013
Rejecting charges that it was not proactive in probing allegations of kickbacks in the Rs 3600 crore VVIP chopper deal, Government today said it would act only according to the law and not to please the Opposition in this case. ...
03:04 PM, Feb 13, 2013
Describing the Italian chopper deal as one having the "makings of a second Bofors scam", the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday sought to know why the government has not taken any action on the matter till now and said it will raise the issue strongly during the Budget Session of Parliament. The main Opposition also demanded the helicopter deal be reviewed and the supply of the remaining nine choppers...
02:31 PM, Feb 13, 2013
Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde at a recent function in Pune said that the public memory was short and it won't be long before it forgot the coal controversy too, just like the Bofors scam. ...
10:56 AM, Sep 17, 2012
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde had said that the public memory is short and it would soon forget the coal scam, like the Bofors. ...
08:04 PM, Sep 16, 2012
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Sunday invited ire from the Opposition for his remark that the coal controversy, like the Bofors scam, will soon be forgotten. "Earlier the Bofors was a talking point. People forgot about it. Now it is coal. This too will be forgotten," Shinde said in a lighter vein at a function in Pune on Saturday. "Once hands are washed off coal, they...
09:51 AM, Sep 16, 2012
Pune: Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde today said the coal issue will soon fade away from public memory as happened in case of Bofors. "Earlier the Bofors was a talking point. People forgot about it. Now it is coal. This too will be forgotten," Shinde said in a lighter vein at a function here. "Once hands are washed off coal, they again become clean," the home minister said sending...
11:15 PM, Sep 15, 2012
New Delhi: Dismissing any comparison between coal block allocation issue and Bofors pay-offs controversy, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday said "2012 is not 1989". "2012 is not 1989. Do not draw such comparisons", Chidambaram said at the AICC media briefing when asked whether the Opposition was trying to re-enact a Bofors-like scenario. The opposition had resigned en masse in 1989 following CAG report on the Bofors issue ahead of...
02:18 AM, Sep 04, 2012
With the paralysis in Parliament, could the CAG report on an alleged coal scam develop into a second bofors? ...
10:03 PM, Aug 28, 2012
If one were to take a purely transaction-oriented approach to the Bofors deal, one will wonder what the fuss is all about. Even Sten Lindstrom, ...
03:48 PM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: BJP leader Arun Jaitley said that the NDA government made all efforts to bring the guilty to book in the Bofors scam and alleged that successive Congress-led governments or those supported by that party tried to "kill" the case. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's advocate, he said that during the NDA regime from 1998 to 2004, the Bofors case was taken to its "logical conclusion" and the...
07:28 PM, Apr 29, 2012
New Delhi: The RSS on Sunday attacked past governments, not even sparing the BJP-led NDA for the Bofors cover-up. An editorial in the RSS mouthpiece 'Organiser' read, "Successive governments of India knew who the culprits were and yet chose to look the other way. Several non-Congress governments came to power, including the one led by VP Singh who had vowed to bring the guilty to book within 100 days of...
09:09 AM, Apr 29, 2012
New Delhi: Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley on Saturday denied allegations that the BJP colluded with the Congress to ensure Sonia Gandhi was not questioned in the Bofors case during the NDA rule. In an interview with Karan Thapar on 'Devil's Advocate', the BJP leader blamed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for not questioning the Congress President. Below is an edited excerpt from the interview:...
07:20 AM, Apr 29, 2012
New Delhi: The RSS has said it is intriguing that Congress President Sonia Gandhi has not figured in the Bofors scam though Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi was close to her even as the Sangh fountainhead charged successive governments with looking the other way in the scandal. The editorial of RSS mouthpiece Organiser states that Sonia Gandhi is the "missing name" in the Bofors corruption case as if she must not...
08:31 PM, Apr 28, 2012
The Tehelka scam has come back to haunt the BJP, with the court convicting former party president Bangaru Laxman for corruption. ...
07:07 PM, Apr 27, 2012
Bofors scam was raised by the opposition parties in Rajya Sabha as well as Lok Sabha to corner the Congress-led UPA. ...
09:26 PM, Apr 26, 2012
President Pratibha Patil has approved the Rajya Sabha nomination recommendation for cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and he will now be a Rajya Sabha MP. ...
09:15 PM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: Both Houses of Parliament on Thursday witnessed commotion as Bofors scam was raised by the opposition parties in Rajya Sabha as well as Lok Sabha to corner the Congress-led UPA. The Houses had to be adjourned repeatedly following the uproar on the issue as the treasury and the opposition benches continued to trade charges. While the Opposition demanded a new probe into the scam, the Congress maintained that...
01:18 PM, Apr 26, 2012
Mumbai: Expressing happiness over his name being cleared in the Bofors payoff scam, mega-star Amitabh Bachchan, however, said Wednesday that he is 'pained' that it came after 25 years. Speaking to reporters here, Bachchan welcomed the revelations made by the Swedish investigators in the Bofors case. He said he had "lived with humiliation and loss of reputation" all these years. "I am happy that the truth has emerged after 25...
01:01 PM, Apr 26, 2012
