New Delhi: The Maldives Anti-Corruption Commission has found that no misdeed was involved in awarding the Male International airport to Indian company GMR, according to media reports.
The $500 million contract with GMR had been terminated by President Waheed in 2012 following the Maldivian coup. The deal had been signed by former President Nasheed in 2010.
The Maldives government had cancelled GMR's airport project claiming that it was financially unviable. The termination of the project was seen as a major setback in the bilateral relations of India and Maldives.
Local media reports today said the Anti-Corruption Commission's (ACC) 61-page investigation report into the alleged corruption in the leasing of the country's only operational international airport to GMR by the previous administration has declared there was no corruption involved in GMR's bid during the evaluation phase of the deal. According to the probe report, GMR had offered the highest concession fee and scored the highest marks in the bid to develop and operate the airport for 25 years....
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09:25 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Shimla: The Himachal Vigilance and Anti-corruption Bureau is expected to submit its report On Saturday in the phone tapping case during the previous BJP government. "The probe has been completed and final report is being prepared for submitting it to the government," highly placed sources said. Vigilance and Anti-corruption Bureau was entrusted the probe in March and related documents which included the list of the telephone numbers retrieved by the...
01:36 AM, Jun 15, 2013
In the wake of the recent spot-fixing scandal which tarnished the image of Indian cricket, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will start their education programme for young players in the country. The BCCI's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) will educate the players from various age groups, who will attend sessions with officers from the ACSU during the ongoing National Cricket Academy camps. "The anti-corruption unit of...
12:26 PM, Jun 14, 2013
Buenos Aires: Former Argentine President Carlos Menem received a seven-year prison sentence for arms smuggling to Croatia and Ecuador in the 1990s, but he will not be jailed unless his fellow senators strip him of immunity, a court said on Thursday. Menem, now a frail 82-year-old senator, was found guilty in March of being "co-author of the offense of aggravated contraband" in an appeals court decision that overturned a lower...
07:41 AM, Jun 14, 2013
Shimla: State Congress leaders have dared former Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal and his MP son Anurag Thakur to declare their assets and sources of income. Himachal Pradesh Chief Parliamentary Secretaries Rakesh Kalia, Sohan Lal Thakur, Inderdutt Lakhanpal and Ajay Mahajan, all MLAs, issued a joint statement on Thursday defending HPCC president Sukhvinder Singh Thakur against whom BJP had made charges of not declaring assets. They said the HPCC president...
12:46 AM, Jun 14, 2013
In March 2013, Dr HPS Mythri got a high rank in the recruitment exam for the Karnataka Administrative Service. She was confident of a top job until she went for her personality test. Dr Mythri said, "I got a call from the KPSC member saying I'm the topper in the ST category and I should go and meet the member for a negotiation. Since I'm from the ST category and...
06:28 PM, Jun 12, 2013
Bangalore: A crore or more for a government job - that's the going rate in Karnataka. In March 2013, Dr HPS Mythri got a high rank in the recruitment exam for the Karnataka Administrative Service. She was confident of a top job until she went for her personality test. Dr Mythri said, "I got a call from the KPSC member saying I'm the topper in ST category and I should...
07:36 AM, Jun 12, 2013
Vatican City: Pope Francis has acknowledged the existence of a "gay lobby" and a "stream of corruption" in the Vatican, according to reports in Catholic media not denied by the Vatican. The pope made the remarks last week in Spanish during a private meeting with representatives of the Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Religious (CLAR), according to the Chilean Catholic website "Reflection and Liberation". On Tuesday it published what...
07:28 AM, Jun 12, 2013
Hyderabad: A special CBI court in Hyderabad on Monday dismissed the plea of jailed YSR Congress chief YS Jaganmohan Reddy to conduct joint trial of cases filed against him in connection with alleged quid-pro-quo investments made by different entities. The Principal Special Court for CBI cases dismissed the petition as not maintainable and observed that the offences were distinct though the modus operandi was same in the five charge-sheets filed...
01:58 AM, Jun 11, 2013
Cairo: Families of Egyptians killed in protests that unseated Hosni Mubarak reacted angrily in court on Saturday when a judge trying the former president over the deaths barred their lawyers from taking part in the case. Mubarak, 85, was brought into the caged dock sitting up in a wheelchair, wearing a white gown and sweater and familiar dark aviator glasses. The former air force general appeared alert and in fair...
07:30 AM, Jun 09, 2013
Lucknow: Social activist Anna Hazare would start a tour of Uttar Pradesh, the fourth phase of his Jantantra Yatra, on June 23. Anna's associate Ramdheeraj on Saturday said that the yatra, started with the objective of uniting youth and farmers to make the country corruption free, would enter Uttar Pradesh on the date after touring Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand. The fourth phase of the yatra would cover Bareilly, Farukkhabad,...
03:36 PM, Jun 08, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Saturday launched a Rs 422 crore road corridor project in Mukarba Chowk area of North-West Delhi. To be constructed on Outer Ring Road, the corridor will link the crowded Madhuban Chowk with Mukarba Chowk area. The project is part of a 20 km-long signal free corridor from from Vikaspuri in West Delhi to Wazirabad in North Delhi, the total cost of which...
12:41 AM, Jun 02, 2013
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said his great regret as prime minister was that many bills had not been passed due to the "obstructionist" and "impatient" attitude of the opposition. "The obstructionist role of the opposition increased in recent years. My great regret is that many important bills have not been passed (due to the opposition's attitude)," Singh told journalists on board his special aircraft while returning...
04:25 AM, Jun 01, 2013
A Bihar official used to cook his food in a silver pressure cooker, leaving a Bihar Police raiding team bewildered. The Economic Offences Unit (EOU) team of the Bihar Police was flummoxed when it recovered during raids on the government engineer a silver pressure cooker. The vessel was later produced in court, an official said in Patna on Saturday. "It surprised us all that a silver pressure cooker was recovered....
02:08 AM, Jun 01, 2013
Mumbai: The BCCI on Friday made it clear that it had not been told by ICC regarding the world body's reported warning to betting accused Gurunath Meiyappan to keep away from bookies at the start of IPL 6 as has been claimed by him during police interrogation. BCCI Cheif Administrative Officer Ratnakar Shetty told reporters that ICC Anti-Corruption and Security Unit chief Y P Singh was present during the Board's...
07:47 PM, May 31, 2013
London: More than 20 English county cricketers and two umpires are being questioned by anti-corruption detectives as part of the ICC's match-fixing investigation. The ICC is speaking to players who were involved in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), which featured cricketers from around the world. Ravi Bopara, Owais Shah, Kabir Ali, Phil Mustard and Dimitri Mascarenhas are among the players who have either been or will be interviewed by the...
07:04 PM, May 31, 2013
BCCI President N Srinivasan continues to remain defiant saying he has done nothing wrong and has no reason to resign. ...
11:09 PM, May 27, 2013
New Delhi: Arrested CBI SP Vivek Dutt, a key member of the coalgate scam probe, and three others were on Monday remanded to judicial custody till June 7 by a Delhi court in connection with a corruption case lodged against them. The four arrested accused -- Dutt, CBI inspector Rajesh Chandra Karnatak, alleged middleman Rajesh Pachisia and businessman Dinesh Chand Gupta -- were produced before the court after expiry of...
03:44 PM, May 27, 2013
BCCI President N Srinivasan continues to remain defiant saying he has done nothing wrong and has no reason to resign. ...
11:55 AM, May 27, 2013
Sarajevo: The president of Bosnia's autonomous Muslim-Croat federation was freed from jail on Friday after the Constitutional Court ordered his release following his arrest last month on corruption charges. President Zivko Budimir was arrested along with 19 other officials in late April 2013 in the most high-profile anti-corruption drive in Bosnia since independence more than two decades ago. A court ordered Budimir and his four co-accused aides to be kept...
07:02 AM, May 25, 2013
