New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is probing into a corruption case against a Customs tribunal judge, Gowri Shanker, who allegedly took a bribe of $500,000 from a US firm in a RIG import dispute case. According to the documents accessed by CNN-IBN, the CBI probe was ordered after the US government gave details of improper payment to Indian officials in connection with the case. The US government...
06:30 PM, Nov 12, 2012
New Delhi: Activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal has decided to drop the name India Against Corruption after the launch of his political party on November 26. The decision that was declared to the world on Kejriwal's Twitter account came hours after anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare said he would open a bank account in the name of India Against Corruption. "Anna is too dear to us. I have deepest respects for him. After...
07:30 AM, Nov 12, 2012
New Delhi: India Against Corruption on Sunday alleged that some suspicious persons entered the residential premises of its leaders Manish Sisodia and Kumar Vishwas to threaten them and their families. In a statement, the IAC claimed that about a dozen people came to Vishwas' residence on Sunday evening while he was talking to a news channel and gheraoed the house for about 30 minutes. The outfit claimed that after some...
10:22 PM, Nov 11, 2012
New Delhi: India Against Corruption activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday tweeted that he would not use the IAC label post November 26 after the launch of his political party. "Anna is too dear to us. I have the deepest respects for him. After the launch of our party on November 26, we will not use IAC name," Kejriwal tweeted. His tweet came a day after Anna Hazare's group insisted that...
07:27 PM, Nov 11, 2012
New Delhi: The MoS PMO, V Narayanasamy on Sunday said that the media had misquoted him over a remark he made about the Comptroller and Auditor General of India and said that he had never said that the Constitutional body will be made a multi-member body. "I was being interviewed by a PTI correspondent and he asked me a few questions. He never asked me anything about making the CAG...
06:45 PM, Nov 11, 2012
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh has done it again. On Sunday, the senior politician compared India Against Corruption (IAC) activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal to Bollywood actor Rakhi Sawant saying that they both tried to expose "but with no substance". "Arvind Kejriwal is like Rakhi Sawant. They both try and expose, but with no substance," Digvijaya tweeted. In the next line, Digvijaya added, "Apologies to Rakhi Sawant. I am an...
05:23 PM, Nov 11, 2012
New Delhi: A new office for the new look Team Anna in South Delhi is going to be inaugurated on Sunday. Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare on Saturday had announced a new team comprising 15 core members, two months after his split with the Arvind Kejriwal group. The new office located close to IIT Delhi in Sarvodaya Enclave was finalised despite the expenses due to better local connectivity with the Delhi...
10:07 AM, Nov 11, 2012
New Delhi: A former Swiss bank employee has claimed that several politicians, cricketers and internationally well-known people have black money in the Swiss banks. Rudolf Elmer, who gave WikiLeaks the black money list told CNN-IBN that he did not sell any data to the Indian government. Speaking via Skype, Elmer said, "There are politicians, cricket players, international well-known people who are part of that sort of information." Meanwhile, the government...
07:28 AM, Nov 11, 2012
New Delhi: A former Swiss bank employee has claimed that several politicians, cricketers and internationally well-known people have black money in the Swiss banks. Rudolf Elmer, who gave WikiLeaks the black money list told CNN-IBN that he did not sell any data to the Indian government. Speaking via Skype, Elmer said, "There are politicians, cricket players, international well-known people who are part of that sort of information." Meanwhile, the government...
07:28 AM, Nov 11, 2012
Guwahati: Admitting no government department in the state is free from corruption, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday wondered how corruption could be checked by Anna Hazare and his associates "supported by those indulging in corruption". "I do admit there is corruption in all departments. No department is free from corruption. I am saying that. It is a fact," Gogoi said. To a query Gogoi said, "I cannot say...
03:50 AM, Nov 11, 2012
New Delhi: Anna Hazare on Saturday announced that he would start a national campaign against corruption from January 30, 2013, the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. "Today (Saturday) there was a meeting among 13 old members of our group for over five hours. Soon there will be a national campaign against corruption. I will start a nationwide tour from January 30, 2013," Hazare said after the meeting. "It is a...
02:30 AM, Nov 11, 2012
New Delhi: India Against Corruption activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday interacted with netizens and answered their questions on Google+ Hangout. The one-hour session began at 8 pm India time and was aimed at interacting with non-resident Indians (NRIs) in particular. Members of the IAC said on Saturday that they had been receiving a lot of queries from NRIs ever since Kejriwal announced that he will be forming a political party....
08:00 PM, Nov 10, 2012
New Delhi: Launching his new team, anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare on Saturday gave a call for Jan Andolan. "Our goal is not Jan Lokpal alone. There has to be a Jan Andolan, a mass movement. We will try and bring together many people's movements," said activist Medha Patkar, who along with Kiran Bedi, shared the stage with Anna. Reading out from a list, Kiran Bedi said that Akhil Gogoi, Akshay...
04:58 PM, Nov 10, 2012
New Delhi: India Against Corruption activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said he was a dengue mosquito and would bite the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Kejriwal said this while responding to External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid's statement that Kejriwal's attack was just a mosquito bite that causes minor irritation. Kejriwal said, "I am a dengue mosquito. I will bite the Congress and BJP and then they will be...
03:17 PM, Nov 10, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP is still fighting against voices of dissent from within, for its President Nitin Gadkari. Another voice of dissent within the BJP against Gadkari, National executive member Dr Jagdish Shettigar, said the party president must take a cue from senior party leader LK Advani who resigned from the Lok Sabha in the nineties after similar charges were levelled against him. BJP National Executive member Dr Jagdish Shettigar...
08:11 AM, Nov 10, 2012
New Delhi: The government has dismissed India Against Corruption activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal's allegations of black money against big corporate houses, saying there is nothing new in it. "Nothing new in the allegations. This has already been discussed in Parliament. Government may issue a statement if required," the government said. Meanwhile, Kejriwal has defended his allegations of black money against big corporate houses. "The government is not able to force the...
07:38 AM, Nov 10, 2012
New Delhi: Anna Hazare will hold the first meeting of his apolitical anti-corruption movement's Core Committee in New Delhi in which former Army Chief VK Singh will be a special invitee. Hazare, who was in Guwahati to attend some events there and returned to the capital this afternoon, will along with his close aides deliberate on future strategies at the meeting. Sources close to Hazare said the former Army chief...
03:10 AM, Nov 10, 2012
New Delhi: After taking on politicians and businessmen, India Against Corruption will now target the judiciary, Arvind Kejriwal said on Friday. He said several high profile cases were dragging on in the courts for several years without any decisive outcome. Asked by a television channel why he doesn't move courts with his charges, Kejriwal said this is what the Government wants so that it can "manage" things there. He said...
02:11 AM, Nov 10, 2012
Surajkund: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Friday stressed the need to open the political system for the common man and said there was no reason why the party would not be able to overcome the various challenges it faces. "The party has faced different challenges at different times in the past... There is no reason why it cannot overcome the challenges today," Congress general secretary Janardan Dwivedi said quoting...
01:35 AM, Nov 10, 2012
New Delhi: India Against Corruption activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal on Friday targeted several top Indian business groups and a Congress MP, alleging that they had stashed black money worth several hundred crores in the HSBC Bank in Geneva, Switzerland. He claimed that a senior Congress leader gave him the details about the black money. "The black money from Swiss banks can come but the government doesn't wish to bring it back,"...
02:14 PM, Nov 09, 2012
