From pilots to the DGCA, everyone is being questioned - to reveal just how were licenses given to candidates holding fake documents. ...
09:09 PM, Mar 15, 2011
New Delhi: The fake pilot controversy exposed by CNN-IBN has had a much needed impact. From pilots to the DGCA, everyone is being questioned - to reveal just how were licenses given to candidates holding fake documents. Just a day after CNN-IBN exposed Arjun Giare - an Air India pilot who got his flying license on the basis of fake documents - an embarrassed Civil Aviation Ministry is scrambling for...
08:38 PM, Mar 15, 2011
New Delhi: After PJ Thomas on Thursday ejected out, it's time to fix the blame for his appointment as the Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC). And under fire from the Opposition, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the chairperson of the high powered committee, really had no option but to say, "I accept responsibility". "I disagree" was what Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj had written on the letter appointing Thomas as the CVC,...
10:04 PM, Mar 04, 2011
Jammu: A day after the apex court struck down the controversial appointment of PJ Thomas as the Central Vigilance Commissioner, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday accepted responsibility for the controversy. "I respect the judgement of the Supreme Court and I accept my responsibility," Singh said at a press conference on being asked about his future course of action on the issue. "It is necessary to ensure that such things...
07:00 PM, Mar 04, 2011
Srinagar/New Delhi: The People's Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday escalated the row over its wrong map of Jammu and Kashmir. PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti took a potshot at the Union Home Minister P Chidambaram while saying India seemed afraid of china. "My request to him is that he should be more focused on incursions that are taking place in Ladakh...Do some thing about it and not being bullied by China....
08:50 PM, Feb 14, 2011
New Delhi: Pakistani singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan was arrested by India's Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Monday, a day after he was detained at the international airport here for carrying undisclosed foreign currency worth more than $100,000, an official said. "He has been arrested and will be produced in Patiala House court later today (Monday)," a DRI official told. Rahat had been taken to the DRI office at...
02:41 PM, Feb 14, 2011
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11:27 PM, Feb 08, 2011
On Talking Point, Rajdeep Sardesai asks, 'Has the S-band controversy embarrassed the PMO?' ...
11:08 PM, Feb 08, 2011
Mumbai: It is just 95-minute long, and therefore Aamir Khan's forthcoming film "Dhobi Ghat" will be screened across the country without any interval. Aamir personally visited the owners and managers of the multiplex chains. They've apparently now given it to him in writing that there would be no interval in the screenings of the movie. Not just the multiplex chains and single theatres in Mumbai, Aamir has personally secured a...
01:27 PM, Jan 19, 2011
The Bombay High Court Tuesday ordered the attachment of two properties of Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt over a financial row with producer Shakeel Noorani. The decision followed an arbitration award passed by the Indian Motion Pictures Producers Association (IMPPA) in January this year in favour of Noorani. Noorani's lawyer Ashok Saraogi said his client had in 2002 paid Sanjay Dutt a signing amount of Rs.50 lakh for his film Jaan...
12:15 PM, Dec 29, 2010
Washington: US President Barack Obama's decision to skip a planned visit to the Golden Temple during his India trip has been listed ninth among Time magazine's 'Top 10 Religion Stories'. Explaining why it put "Obama Decides Not to Visit the Golden Temple" on the list, the US magazine wrote: "The Golden Temple in Amritsar is the centre of the Sikh religion and, at one point in the planning of the...
10:49 AM, Dec 14, 2010
The controversy revolves over allotment of flats in the Adarsh Housing Society meant for Kargil War heroes' families to bureaucrats and politicians in Mumbai. ...
10:10 PM, Nov 09, 2010
The Kochi team has been given a time period of 30 days by the BCCI, following which the franchise will be cancelled.
12:42 PM, Oct 27, 2010
Mumbai: Aamir Khan's magnum opus ‘Peepli Live’ — nominated for the Oscars — has now hit headlines for all the wrong reasons. The directors have distanced themselves from the film — claiming that Aamir Khan is trying to steal all the credit and fame. Recent reports suggested that all is not well with the film's director Anusha Rizvi and the star-producer Aamir Khan. Anusha and her husband Mahmud Farooqui, who...
10:16 AM, Oct 19, 2010
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today dismissed a plea challenging the title of upcoming Aamir Khan's film Dhobi Ghat on the ground that it offended the sensitivity of a particular "caste". A Bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra dismissed a public interest litigation seeking it to frame guidelines to prevent use of name of castes in the title of films. The petition filed by Hindustan Kanojia Organisation of...
12:29 PM, Sep 22, 2010
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday sought an apology from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for use of the term 'Saffron Terrorism' by the Home Minister. "The post of the Prime Minister has been devalued and he has become helpless as someone else is in control of the administration," Modi said at a public function here. Criticising Home Minister P Chidambaram for using the term 'saffron terrorism', Modi said,...
10:25 AM, Aug 30, 2010
Get the day's top stories with CNN-IBN Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai. ...
11:57 PM, Aug 25, 2010
The state revenue department says that farmers are being paid peanuts for their land taken over for the Lavasa city resort. ...
10:21 AM, Aug 25, 2010
New Delhi: There seems to be no end to the controversies surrounding the Commonwealth Games. Now Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Director General VK Verma seems to be pointing finger at Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi. A CAG interim report finds discrepancies in broadcast and sponsorship deals. Verma said Kalmadi knew every deal in the Queen's Baton Relay. On this issue Verma speaks to CNN-IBN in an exclusive interview....
08:07 AM, Aug 12, 2010
