New Delhi: The BJP on Friday took exception to CBI director Ranjit Sinha's remarks that former minister Pawan Kumar Bansal has a strong defence in the case of alleged bribery involving his nephew. BJP vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said that Sinha's remarks were "very unfortunate".
"The matter is sub judice and the investigative agency is saying that there may not be concrete evidence," Naqvi told IANS. "The matter should be properly investigated," he said.
Sinha had told a newspaper on Wednesday that it would be difficult to prove that Bansal was involved in the cash-for-jobs controversy as the former minister has a strong defence.
Bansal was forced to quit as railway minister earlier in May 2013 after a bribery controversy surrounding his nephew Vijay Singla....
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04:40 AM, May 18, 2013
Copenhagen: A Danish TV series, styled on popular show 'X Factor', has caused outrage after parading women without a stitch on in the programme. The primetime show features a "series of silent women who walk in to a studio and slip out of their bathrobes in front of a leering host and his guest", reports thesun.co.uk. The duo run their eyes over the ladies in buff and controversially judge the...
10:25 AM, May 03, 2013
Biharsharif: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday asked Janata Dal (United) workers to be prepared to face "any kind of situation" in the future. "Though everything is now normal within NDA but we should be prepares to face any if and buts in future," he said. Nitish made this appeal to party workers while addressing the JD-U trader cell at the convention hall at Rajgir. Relations between NDA partner...
12:26 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Should Sreesanth have brought up the IPL slapgate controversy after so many years? Sanjeeb Mukherjea, associate editor, Cricket, CNN-IBN, joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. Hi good evening, well don't you feel all these are just a gimmick Asked by: satish rao A. Hi Satish, Good question indeed. It is indeed surprising that an old issue is raked up like this after 5 years. However, its...
07:40 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Rome: Giulio Terzi, who quit as Italian foreign minister over Rome's decision to send two marines back to India to face trial for killing Indian fishermen, says he does not "feel like a scapegoat" over his surprise move to resign to oppose his government's u-turn on the issue. Terzi resigned on March 26 after the two marines, Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, were sent back to India on March 22...
05:28 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Columnist Aakar Patel shared his perspective on the Wharton address controversy and whether Narendra Modi was targeted unfairly. ...
07:58 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Nestle, the world's biggest food company, has removed beef pasta meals from sale in Italy and Spain after finding traces of horse DNA. The discovery of horsemeat in products labelled as beef has spread across Europe since January, prompting product withdrawals, consumer anger and government investigations into the continent's complex food-processing chains. ...
12:25 PM, Feb 19, 2013
A controversial comment on rape got actors Sunny Leone and Kamaal R Khan enmeshed in an ugly public battle that involved filing of police cases. Khan accused Leone of saying that rape is nothing but surprise sex. ...
04:17 PM, Feb 06, 2013
It was all out war on Twitter between adult entertainment actress Sunny Leone and actor-director Kamaal R Khan purportedly over a controversial tweet over rape. ...
01:27 PM, Feb 04, 2013
While early reviews have reiterated what Kamal Haasan has been saying for almost two weeks now - that the film is not anti-Islam in any way - the film in reality is actually very cleverly secular. ...
12:01 PM, Feb 02, 2013
Actor and director Kamal Haasan thanked those who "stood by" him and the "huge Muslim community support" he received during the controversy surrounding his latest film 'Vishwaroopam'. "In all these hurdles my Muslim brothers were behind me. These are the true Muslims. This is the real India," Haasan said while addressing the media on Thursday evening. ...
06:32 PM, Jan 31, 2013
Supporting his friend Shah Rukh Khan, filmmaker Karan Johar called the entire controversy around SRK's article in Outlook magazine as 'ridiculous'. ...
03:51 PM, Jan 30, 2013
In a passionate statement issued to the media Rajini asked Muslims "to sit with Haasan and discuss the issue and allow its release without affecting its storyline". ...
01:37 PM, Jan 25, 2013
The controversial section 66A of the Information Technology Act does not infringe on freedom of speech - that's what the Centre and the Maharashtra government told the Supreme Court in their affidavits on the Bal Thackeray Facebook post controversy on Thursday. ...
10:09 PM, Jan 10, 2013
There was drama at former Army Chief General VK Singh's residence in New Delhi on Saturday afternoon when a Signals Regiment unit reportedly went to remove the army exchange and lines at his house in Mandir Marg at Delhi Cantonment. The General's lawyer Vishwajeet Singh claimed that the residence could have been bugged. Interestingly, General Singh has himself been in the midst of a controversy following allegations that during his...
05:59 PM, Jan 07, 2013
The year 2012 saw the Delhi High Court ordering day-to-day trial of sexual offence cases in the aftermath of the brutal gangrape case besides some judicial interventions for loosening decades-old grip of politicians on sports bodies. ...
12:10 PM, Dec 28, 2012
Kochi: Veteran CPM leader V S Achuthanandan, who is the prime accused in a land controversy, on Thursday got reprieve when a single-judge bench of the high court quashed the FIR -- but the state government decided to go in appeal. Single-bench judge S S Sateeshchandran asked the first information report (FIR) to be cancelled because it had no merit in it. The court said that it appeared that Achuthanandan...
03:23 PM, Dec 06, 2012
London: The British army's first Sikh soldier allowed to wear a turban rather than a bearskin on ceremonial duties has suffered abuse from his colleagues over his headgear and his refusal to cut hair and his beard, a media report on Sunday said. Guardsman Jatinderpal Singh Bhullar, 25, who joined the Scots guards this year, has been given permission to wear a turban outside Buckingham Palace, breaking hundreds of years...
03:17 PM, Dec 02, 2012
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah landed into a fresh controversy after he alleged that the People's Democratic Party (PDP) was bribing women panchayat members with make-up kits ahead of the Legislative Council Elections. Terming the statement as an "insult to women", state's women panchayat members have taken to streets in Srinagar demanding a public apology from the Chief Minister. A large number of women members from Ganderbal...
08:10 AM, Dec 02, 2012
New Delhi/Beijing: India has termed as "unacceptable" China depicting Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin as its territory in maps of the country on their new e-passports, a step that led to retaliatory action by New Delhi. China sprung the surprise on India when it showed these territories as part of its own in the maps on their new e-passports. The Indian Embassy in Beijing responded by issuing visas to Chinese...
09:34 AM, Nov 24, 2012
