A government appointed one-man committee that is investigating alleged corruption charges against the retail giant Walmart in India will submit its report by April, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. "The government has decided to appoint one-man committee regarding media reports concerning Walmart vide resolution dated 31.1.2013. The committee has been asked to submit its report within three from months from issuance of the resolution," Minister of State for Commerce and...
06:24 PM, Feb 27, 2013
Telecom regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has floated a consultation paper to bring down the rates of mobile calls and SMSes that are currently charged from a customer on availing roaming facility. Among various options to reduce or remove additional cost burden on roaming customers, TRAI has proposed a new norm -- Home Price Rule -- wherein a mobile subscriber should be charged the same amount that he...
06:52 PM, Feb 26, 2013
Railways on Tuesday hiked freight rates for moving diesel and cooking fuels by almost 8 per cent, a move that may result in marginal hike in retail fuel prices. ...
03:17 PM, Feb 26, 2013
Sacked Uttarakhand minorities panel chief SS Namdhari and 21 others were on Saturday chargesheeted for murder, conspiracy and kidnapping in the November 17, 2012 killing of liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his brother Hardeep in a shootout at a farmhouse in Delhi. ...
04:00 PM, Feb 16, 2013
The Delhi police is likely to file on Friday its chargesheet before a court in New Delhi in the November 17 killing of liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his brother Hardeep in a shootout in a farmhouse in New Delhi. The Crime Branch of the Delhi Police, which had arrested sacked Uttarakhand minorities panel chief SS Namdhari and nine others for their alleged role in the case, will submit its...
05:31 AM, Feb 15, 2013
A Delhi court on Monday will take cognisance of a chargesheet filed by the CBI against Airtel, Vodafone and others for alleged irregularities in allocation of additional 2G spectrum to them during the NDA regime. ...
06:53 AM, Feb 11, 2013
The trial in the brutal gangrape and murder of the Delhi Braveheart begins on Tuesday even as the debate over amendments in the juvenile law heats up. The Delhi Police on Tuesday filed the post-mortem report with a supplementary chargesheet. ...
10:27 AM, Feb 05, 2013
A Delhi court is likely to frame charges against sacked Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi and others on Monday for allegedly cheating, conspiring and causing a loss of over Rs 90 crore to the exchequer in a Games-related corruption case. Special CBI Judge Ravinder Kaur had on January 10 posted for Monday the framing of charges in the case that also involves former OC Secretary General Lalit Bhanot...
11:30 AM, Feb 03, 2013
The government on Thursday said it will set up a committee to look into the allegations that US retail giant Walmart indulged in lobbying activities in India to gain entry in the country's market. Corporate Affairs Minister Sachin Pilot said the government will set up a committee to look into the matter. ...
07:12 PM, Jan 24, 2013
Bharti Airtel, India's top mobile phone carrier, said on January 23 that it has raised voice call prices to account for rising costs, sending its shares up more than 3 per cent. ...
11:51 AM, Jan 23, 2013
Even as corruption charges threatened to topple Pakistan's second Premier in a row, the country's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar drew a parallel with India, saying Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had also faced "very big" allegations. "The problem of corruption plagues many countries within South Asia and elsewhere also," Khar said. ...
01:38 PM, Jan 16, 2013
A local court will take up for cognisance on Monday the chargesheet in the allocation of additional spectrum during the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) regime with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) saying the then government's decision had "brightened" the outcome of the Initial Public Offering (IPO) of one Bharti Airtel's group companies. The chargesheet has named three telecom firms - Bharti Cellular Ltd, Hutchison Max Pvt Ltd (now known...
10:00 AM, Jan 13, 2013
The male friend of the Delhi gang-rape victim, who was with the girl when the incident took place, has sought a speedy trail into the matter and demanded that the case be wrapped up positively in next three months. ...
03:56 AM, Jan 06, 2013
Delhi Police on Thursday filed its chargesheet in the gruesome gangrape and murder case of the 23-year-old paramedical student before a court in Saket in south Delhi. The chargesheet was filed in a sealed cover against five accused. The chargesheet against the sixth accused, who is a minor, will be filed before a juvenile court. ...
09:03 AM, Jan 04, 2013
The Delhi Police charged five of the accused with murder, rape and destruction of evidence. ...
10:34 PM, Jan 03, 2013
The Delhi Police on Thursday filed the chargesheet in the brutal gangrape and murder case of the 23-year-old paramedical student at the Saket court. Following the move, the Saket court fixed January 5 for cognisance of offence. The chargesheet, which runs into 1000 pages, has been filed against five accused, who have been charged with murder, rape and abduction among other charges. The trial in the case will be in-camera...
05:44 PM, Jan 03, 2013
Even as Delhi Police is set to file a 1000 page chargesheet in the brutal Delhi gangrape case, there are debates as to how the juvenile accused will be treated by the lawmakers amidst calls for lowering the age for juvenile offenders. ...
03:54 PM, Jan 03, 2013
Shashi Tharoor had on Tuesday sparked a debate with his tweet calling for naming the revised anti-rape law after the Delhi braveheart. ...
03:43 PM, Jan 02, 2013
It has now been learnt that the Delhi Police will file an e-chargesheet in the Delhi gangrape case. Police sources said that this was being done in order to maintain secrecy of content and facilitate fast trial. ...
01:55 PM, Jan 02, 2013
The six accused in the Delhi gangrape case had allegedly tried to mow the girl down under the bus after dumping her in south-west Delhi but her male friend saved her from being crushed. As the Delhi Police is set to submit its charge sheet before the trial court on Thursday, more details of the horrific crime that has shaken the nation's conscience are tumbling out. ...
09:48 PM, Jan 01, 2013
