All 17 accused in the 2G scam case were charged under IPC Section 409. Here are the details of all of the charges. ...
12:32 PM, Oct 22, 2011
New Delhi: His last few directorial ventures, including the latest 'Chargesheet', may have bombed at the box-office, but the evergreen Dev Anand says he takes criticism in his stride, and will continue to do so. The 88-year-old actor was in the capital to receive the Lifetime Achievement honour at the NDTV Indian of the Year award ceremony Tuesday. "This award in a flash takes me back to the year 1945...
06:44 PM, Oct 18, 2011
This week on The Week That Wasn't, Cyrus Broacha brings the funny side to BJP leader LK Advani's Rath Yatra, the BlackBerry outage and the new Telecom policy. ...
11:27 AM, Oct 16, 2011
Mumbai: India will let cellular carriers share airwaves and allow for consolidation in a crowded industry that has been battered by ferocious competition and a multi-billion-dollar scandal, under new proposals announced on Monday. The draft policy will "facilitate consolidation in the converged telecom service sector while ensuring sufficient competition," Telecoms Minister Kapil Sibal said as he announced several new initiatives for the sector in a draft of the policy. Many...
08:47 AM, Oct 11, 2011
Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal on Monday unveiled a draft of the new telecom policy that will focus on transparency. ...
08:37 AM, Oct 11, 2011
New Delhi: Announcing the draft National Telecom Policy (NTP), Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal on Monday said that there will be one nation-one licence policy across the country, which means removal of roaming charges. As per the draft NTP unveiled by the Government on Monday, spectrum allocation will also be de-linked from licences and radiowaves would be made available at market-determined prices. Announcing that revenue generation for the Government will have...
05:20 PM, Oct 10, 2011
New Delhi: Speaking on the new telecom policy on Monday, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said that there will be one nation-one licence policy across the country, which means removal of roaming charges. Draft National Telecom Policy 2011 aims for 'one nation-one licence'; targets full MNP and free roaming. Sibal also said that he wants India to become a hub for telecommunication. "Draft NTP targets broadband on demand," Sibal said. The...
03:55 PM, Oct 10, 2011
Cast: Dev Anand, Jackie Shroff, Riya Sen, Divya Dutta, Naseruddin Shah, Yashpal Sharma, Milind Gunaji, Chirag Patil Director: Dev Anand 'Chargesheet' is full of surprises starting from the very beginning. The film is made under the banner of Warner Brothers in collaboration with Navketan Films. However, after few minutes one starts wondering why Warner Brothers could have produced such a pathetic film. The film opens in Dubai where an underworld...
03:12 PM, Sep 30, 2011
This week, catch John Abraham in 'Force' and Jimmy Shergill, Mahi Gill, Randeep Hooda in 'Sahib Biwi Aur Gangster'. ...
09:18 AM, Sep 30, 2011
New Delhi: He has been romancing with cinema for more than seven decades and Bollywood's evergreen star Dev Anand is now planning a second part of his 1971 hit 'Hare Rama Hare Krishna'. The actor-filmmaker, who celebrated his 88th birthday recently, will be seen in the lead role in his forthcoming film 'Chargesheet' and is working on the extension of the Zeenat Aman-starrer movie, which is titled 'Hare Rama Hare...
12:25 PM, Sep 29, 2011
Washington: Dominique Strauss Kahn, the former head of the IMF visited the Washington headquarters of the body to briefly meet with his successor and say goodbye to staffers. "Mr Strauss-Kahn visited IMF Headquarters this afternoon. I can confirm that the Managing Director met briefly with him prior to Mr Strauss-Kahn's meeting with Fund staff," an IMF spokesman said on Monday. "These were private meetings, arranged at his request. We have...
07:59 AM, Aug 30, 2011
Mumbai: Octogenatian actor Dev Anand has refrained from commenting on activist Anna Hazare's fast for a strong anti-graft law, saying he doesn't want to create a controversy. "Lets not talk about politics because this is a subject which I can go on talking about. It may create controversy, which is not right at this moment," Dev Anand told reporters at the launch of the first look of his news directorial...
01:58 PM, Aug 25, 2011
New Delhi: DMK MP Kanimozhi on Tuesday rejected the CAG report of loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the exchequer in grant of 2G spectrum licenses, saying it lacked evidenciary value as Parliament is yet to adopt the findings. "The CAG report was laid before the House on November 16, 2010. It had not been adopted by the House. It is still in a limbo as the House is...
07:52 PM, Aug 23, 2011
New Delhi: The Central Information Commission has directed the Prime Minister's Office to make public "charges of corruption" levelled against former telecom minister A Raja along with views of various officials on them expressed in the form of file notings. The case relates to an RTI applicant seeking to know the reason why Raja was kept in the Cabinet despite serious allegations of corruption against him. The information was denied...
06:32 PM, Jun 21, 2011
New Delhi: Four months after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) took over all terror cases relating to Hindu extremism, the agency on Monday filed the chargesheet in the 2007 Samjhauta blast. The Samjhauta Express was bombed killing 68 people, several of them Pakistani nationals. Swami Aseemanand, who first allegedly confessed to his role and later withdrew his confession - has been named a key conspirator. In an embarrassment to the...
08:08 PM, Jun 20, 2011
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a chargesheet on Monday before the special court at Panchkula, Haryana against Swami Aseemanand, Sunil Joshi (now dead), Lokesh Sharma, Sandeep Dange and Ramchandra Kalasangra in the Samjhauta blast case. Assemanand's judicial custody ended on Monday. Aseemanand had told the Panchkula court in May 2011 that he had no role in the 2007 Samjhauta Express train bombing that killed 68 people, mainly...
02:03 PM, Jun 20, 2011
Muzaffarpur: A local court on Monday accepted a complaint seeking to register a case of sedition against Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh for allegedly describing Yoga guru Ramdev as a 'fraud'. Chief Judicial Magistrate R C Malviya accepted the complaint filed by advocate Sudhir Ojha who sought to book Singh under section 154(A) (sedition), 153 (wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot) and 504...
12:21 PM, Jun 06, 2011
Mumbai: Less than five months after the brutal killing of Malegaon Additional Collector Yashwant Sonawane, all the 10 accused arrested by the police are now out on bail, simply because prosecutors failed to file a chargesheet. This despite the accused being booked under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act. The incident had attracted nationwide outrage after Sonawane was allegedly burnt alive by the oil mafia in Manmad on...
09:08 PM, Jun 02, 2011
