New Delhi: Kadapa MP and YSR Congress president YS Jaganmohan Reddy's Jagathi publications has moved the CBI court on Wednesday seeking to defreeze their bank accounts. The Court has asked the CBI to file a reply by Thursday. Earlier, reacting to the CBI's closure of the Current Accounts of the Group's organisations, the Sakshi group called it an attempt to gag the media and free speech. It denied the charge...
03:23 PM, May 09, 2012
Chennai: AIADMK General Secretary and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa met her long-time aide VK Sasikala at her Poes Garden residence on Monday evening, two days after she revoked Sasikala's suspension from the party. Jayalalitha had three months ago expelled Sasikala from the party and her residence. On Saturday, Jayalalithaa revoked the disciplinary action initiated against Sasikala, but reiterated that the action taken against her friend's relatives and close...
10:16 AM, Apr 03, 2012
Hyderabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday summoned Andhra Pradesh Excise Minister Mopidevi Venkatramana in connection the YSR Congress chief YS Jaganmohan Reddys disproportionate assets case. The minister went to the CBI office for the questioning. Venkatramana is the first minister to have been summoned for questioning by the CBI in the case. He is one of the six ministers, who, along with eight IAS officers, were issued...
04:48 PM, Mar 20, 2012
HYDERABAD: Issuance of notices by the Supreme Court to six ministers in the Jaganmohan Reddy's assets case could not have come at a worse time for chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy who is preparing the party to put up a respectable performance in the by-elections for six Assembly seats in Telangana and one from Andhra.All along, Congress leaders have been trying to paint Jaganmohan Reddy as corruption re-incarnate and...
07:59 AM, Mar 13, 2012
Bangalore: A Bangalore court will resume hearing in the disproportionate assets case and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK Chief Jayalalithaa's former close aide Sasikala will appear for the hearing. In the last hearing, Sasikala reportedly gave a clean chit to the Tamil Nadu chief minister and said she solely to be blamed. Sasikala is also one of the main accused in a case that alleges that the chief minister...
08:58 AM, Feb 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a notice to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha in the 1991 disproportionate assets case. Madras High Court had quashed on September 30 the DA case against Jayalalithaa saying that there was a delay by the CBI in filing the FIR. CBI had appealed against the Madras HC order on which Supreme Court has issued notice to Jayalalithaa. Earlier, Sasikala Natarajan, estranged...
12:49 PM, Feb 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to entertain "at this stage" the plea of Sasikala Natarajan, estranged close aide of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa to provide her translated copies in Tamil of the proceedings before the special Bangalore trial court in a disproportionate assets case. A bench of justices P Sathasivam and BS Chauhan felt since the trial court had adequate language interpreters there was no...
08:44 PM, Feb 09, 2012
Chennai: The DMK on Thursday said the BJP was trying to woo regional parties and the pressure mounted by the saffron party forced the resignation of BV Acharya as Karnataka Advocate General. Acharya, who was also Special Public Prosecutor in the disproportionate assets case against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, had said he resigned as Advocate General after Karnataka government pressurised him to quit as SPP in the case. "They...
05:51 PM, Feb 09, 2012
Advocate General BV Acharya said he was under pressure to quit as Special Public Prosecutor in the Disproportionate Assets case against Jayalalithaa. ...
04:22 PM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: In the disproportionate case against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, the special court in Bangalore will on Thursday record the statement of Sasikala Natarajan, the second accused in the case. Jayalalithaa is accused of amassing 66 crore of assets during her term as CM in 1991-1996. Meanwhile, Kerala opposition leader Achutanandan has also asked Jayalalithaa to disclose names of Kerala politicians who had allegedly acquired vast stretches...
08:48 AM, Dec 08, 2011
New Delhi: Senior DMK leader and Karunanidhi's son MK Stalin may be arrested along with 4 others in a land grabbing case, sources said on Saturday. Police had registered an FIR against Stalin, his son Udhayanidhi and three others on Thursday for allegedly forcing a businessman to sell his property to them. Stalin alleged that the case was fabricated by the J Jayalalithaa government of trying to divert attention from...
09:19 AM, Dec 03, 2011
Chennai: DMK leader and Karunanidhi's son MK Stalin has reacted strongly against the FIR filed against him by the Tamil Nadu Police on Thursday. Stalin said the case which has been initiated against him is fabricated. He said that the FIR was filed to divert the attention from the disproportionate asset cases in Bangalore which are against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa. "This is an attempt to divert the...
08:14 AM, Dec 02, 2011
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa is scheduled to appear again before a Bangalore court on Wednesday in connection with 1996 disproportionate assets case. She answered over a thousand questions on Tuesday and will face another 200 questions on Wednesday. Deposing for the third time before a special court in the disproportionate assets case, Jayalalithaa on Tuesday fielded questions relating to firms in which she was a 'dormant partner'...
10:26 AM, Nov 23, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday slammed the Mayawati government and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the disproportionate assets case as both parties have been seeking adjournments constantly. Coming down heavily on both the parties, the apex court wanted to know if the CBI and the Mayawati government are on the same side. A bench of Justices B Sudershan Reddy and S S Nijjar bluntly told the...
01:25 PM, Sep 27, 2010
Mayawati has filed an affidavit, alleging the CBI inquiry against her is being conducted under political pressure. ...
12:27 AM, Apr 22, 2010
The Bihar government is not competent enough to challenge the acquittal of Lalu and his wife, says SC. ...
11:12 AM, Apr 01, 2010
Former Jharkhand chief minister accused of Rs 4,000-scam. ...
11:00 AM, Nov 10, 2009
Lahore: India's blind cricket team arrived here on Wednesday for a 12-day tour, their first to Pakistan in five years, in what many expect would help in restoration of full sports ties between the two countries. Shortly after the 17-member delegation crossed into Pakistan via the Wagah land border, Indian blind cricket team captain Shekhar Naik Lachma told reporters: "I am very happy that we were given such a great...
03:31 PM, Mar 20, 2008
