Chennai: The DMK has reacted strongly against the CBI's supplementary chargesheet in the 2G scam naming party MP and Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi. It will convene a high-level meeting on Wednesday, to decide the future of its alliance with the Congress. The time to fight the 2G case legally has come for Kanimozhi and Karunanidhi. The question is will she have to fight it alone or will her party the DMK...
07:31 AM, Apr 26, 2011
New Delhi: The CBI on Monday filed a supplementary chargesheet in 2G case naming DMK MP Kanimozhi, who is also the daughter of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, as a co-conspirator in the multi million crore scam. She has also been charged with cheating in the case. Others named in the chargesheet include Kalaignar TV MD Sharad Kumar, Karim Morani of Cineyug Films, Rajiv B Agarwal of Kusegaon Realty...
03:57 PM, Apr 25, 2011
New Delhi: Crucial developments are expected in the 2G spectrum scam case as the CBI is set to file a supplementary chargsheet on Monday. Sources have told CNN-IBN that five individuals will be named in the chargesheet including DMK MP Kanimozhi. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's wife Dayalu Ammal is unlikely to be charged. DMK-owned Kalaignar TV may also be named today. Others likely to included in the chargesheet...
12:00 PM, Apr 25, 2011
New Delhi: The CBI, in its second charge sheet likely to be filed on Monday, may name Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi, wife Dayalu Ammal and several others for allegedly getting benefits out of the allocation of 2G spectrum to certain telecom firms. The charge sheet to be filed in the court of Special CBI Judge OP Saini may give details as to how over Rs 200...
03:06 PM, Apr 24, 2011
Raipur: Rights activist Binayak Sen is all set to walk out of Raipur central jail on Monday. He was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of sedition by a trial court in Chhattisgarh last December. The Supreme Court, however, granted him bail on Friday, while throwing out the sedition charge. Illina Sen, Binayak's wife says that they will continue the work they have been doing until now, but it...
12:30 PM, Apr 18, 2011
Swami Agnivesh says its a happy day for all social activists in the country as the Supreme Court granted bail to Binayak Sen on Friday. The Supreme Court also said there was no case of sedition against Sen. ...
01:32 PM, Apr 15, 2011
New Delhi: All eyes are on the Binayak Sen trial which is on Friday, as the Supreme Court is expected to pronounce its verdict on his bail plea. The trial has attracted international attention. Dr Binayak Sen, a gold medallist from CMC, Vellore and a human rights activist has been convicted for sedition and sentenced to life. While the state claims that Dr Sen is a Maoist conduit, his supporters...
07:19 AM, Apr 15, 2011
New Delhi: A court exclusively set up for the 2G Spectrum scam on Saturday took cognizance of the chargesheet filed by CBI against former Telecom Minister A Raja and eight others saying "there is enough incriminating material to proceed against the accused persons". "I have carefully gone through the FIR, chargesheet, statements of witnesses and related documents and on the perusal of the record, I am satisfied that there is...
11:38 AM, Apr 03, 2011
New Delhi: Attorney General Goolam E Vahnavati and corporate lobbyist Nira Radia are among the 125 witnesses listed in the CBI chargesheet in the 2G spectrum scam. The name of government's top law officer figures as witness number 32 in the CBI chargesheet, while Radia figures in the list in the 44th position. The first chargesheet in the 2G spectrum allocation scam indicts former Telecom Minister A Raja and eight...
05:55 PM, Apr 02, 2011
New Delhi: A court exclusively set up for the 2G Spectrum scam on Saturday took cognizance of the chargesheet filed by CBI against former Telecom Minister A Raja and eight others saying "there is enough incriminating material to proceed against the accused persons". "I have carefully gone through the FIR, chargesheet, statements of witnesses and related documents and on the perusal of the record, I am satisfied that there is...
05:38 PM, Apr 02, 2011
New Delhi: An over 80,000 page first chargesheet with annexures will be filed by the CBI on Saturday in the 2G spectrum scam case against former Telecom Minister A Raja, some of his close aides and a couple of real estate companies for allegedly defrauding the exchequer and entering into a criminal conspiracy for securing telecom licenses. Sources said the name of a big industrial house having alleged links with...
07:24 PM, Apr 01, 2011
Kolkata: The first round of hearing in the Rizwanur Rahman case in a Kolkata fast track court was concluded on Monday. The court heard the arguments for framing of charges against the Todis and the accused police officers. The accused have been charged with abetment to suicide, criminal intimidation and criminal conspiracy. The court will continue with the hearing on March 23, 24 and 25. The CBI had prayed for...
12:25 PM, Mar 21, 2011
CBI sources have told CNN-IBN that DMK chief M Karunanidhi's daughter and Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi will be named in the CBI chargesheet in the 2G scam. Sources also say that Karunanidhi's wife Dayalu Ammal will also be named in the chargesheet. Kanimozhi and Dayalu Amma are likely to be charged under section 120B for forgery and cheating. Kanimozhi and Dayalu suspected of being involved in receiving kickbacks of Rs...
08:06 PM, Mar 18, 2011
Washington: The US markets regulator has charged Indian-American Rajat K Gupta, a former board member of Goldman Sachs and Proctor and Gamble, with insider trading, accusing him of providing confidential information to the key figure in a major hedge fund probe. The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) accused Gupta (62) of illegally tipping Galleon Management founder and hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam with inside information about the quarterly earnings at...
07:38 AM, Mar 03, 2011
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said no increase in freight rates and passenger fares in the Railway Budget would reduce inflation. "It is a common man's budget without increase in freight and passenger fares, thereby it will help to weaken cost push element of inflation," Singh told reporters soon after Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee presented her third budget in the Lok Sabha. At the same time, Banerjee...
02:58 PM, Feb 25, 2011
Mamata Banerjee is also expected to not increase passenger fare ahead of assembly elections in West Benagal. ...
09:45 AM, Feb 25, 2011
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has denied the charges saying they are politically motivated. ...
10:04 AM, Feb 16, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf was on Monday named as an accused in an interim chargesheet filed by prosecutors in an anti-terrorism court conducting the trial of suspects charged with involvement in assassination of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto. Musharraf, who has been living in self-exile in Britain since early 2009, was named as an accused in the interim challan or chargesheet filed by the federal investigation agency in the anti-terrorism...
01:04 PM, Feb 07, 2011
Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan is likely to be charged Monday for stealing a $2,500 necklace from a jewellery store. If convicted, the troubled star faces up to three years in prison. Lohan was captured on the Los Angeles store's security camera wearing the necklace and is said to have been photographed with the accessory one week later. However, the piece has been returned. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's office...
12:47 PM, Feb 06, 2011
Salmon, Idaho: An Idaho library has closed the book on a string of condiment attacks against its book-drop now that the ketchup-wielding criminal has been jailed, a Boise librarian said on Saturday. "We're relieved it's resolved; it's been going on for a while," Ann Costello, reference librarian at Ada County Community Library, said of a caper that began in 2009 when library books in a drive-up drop-box were smothered with...
11:20 AM, Jan 30, 2011
