New Delhi: Implicated by the CBI in the 2G scam, DMK minister Dayanidhi Maran continues to remain defiant. He attended a routine cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's residence on Thursday. Sources have told CNN-IBN that Dayanidhi Maran met the Prime Minister separately after the Cabinet meeting. Maran's meeting with the PM lasted five minutes. According to sources, Maran recused himself from the meeting when the FM license issue was...
07:26 AM, Jul 07, 2011
New Delhi: The CPI on Wednesday demanded that Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran should step down as his position has become untenable after he coming under the CBI scanner in the 2G spectrum scam. "After the CBI has told the Supreme Court that Maran has come under its scanner, his position has become really untenable. He has to step down," senior party leader D Raja said. "Otherwise, the prime minister will...
07:25 PM, Jul 06, 2011
Decks are being cleared for the much-expected Cabinet reshuffle. The Cabinet reshuffle could see major changes this time as Sonia Gandhi is keen that the reshuffle involves some ministers returning to party work. Will performance be the criteria in choosing who is in and who goes out? Rate the incumbent ministers. ...
06:46 PM, Jul 06, 2011
New Delhi: With Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran coming under the CBI scanner in 2G scam, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday demanded that he should be dropped from the Union Cabinet immediately. Jayalalithaa also said the CBI action of accusing him of forcing a Chennai-based telecom promoter to sell stakes to a Malaysian firm has been 'long overdue' and the agency has just done what the nation has...
06:25 PM, Jul 06, 2011
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in its probe report to the Supreme Court on Wednesday implicated Former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran in the 2G spectrum scam saying that initial enquiry revealed that Maran deliberately sat on Aircel's licence application. The clock is ticking for Dayanidhi Maran with the CBI clearly implicating him in its status report in the 2G scam submitted in the Supreme Court on Wednesday....
04:36 PM, Jul 06, 2011
New Delhi: Former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran's ex-secretary Nripendra Mishra has told the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that Maran targeted Aircel to benefit his brother's company. CNN-IBN accessed statements made by former Telecom Secy Nripendra Mishra to the CBI. Mishra is a key witness for the CBI in its investigations in the Aircel-Maxis deal. Mishra has told CBI that Maran had indeed stalled granting of licences to Aircel owner...
01:12 PM, Jul 06, 2011
New Delhi: Union Textile Minister and DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on Thursday ahead of a likely Cabinet reshuffle. Sources have told CNN-IBN that Maran could be dropped in the reshuffle, which could have political repercussions for the United Progressive Alliance Government. Sources say that Maran could be shown the door after his name cropped up in the 2G spectrum allocation scam, which...
12:06 PM, Jun 30, 2011
New Delhi: In yet another attempt by the Congress at an image correction, Prime minister Manmohan Singh is likely to go in for a Cabinet reshuffle next weekend. Sources have told CNN-IBN that Dayanidhi Maran is certain to be dropped from the Cabinet as he faces chargesheet on the 2G issue. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi are likely to meet on Sunday to finalise the reshuffle. According to...
04:51 PM, Jun 25, 2011
Hyderabad: Hitting out at the UPA government over the issues of corruption and black money, CPI general secretary A B Bardhan on Wednesday alleged that the Centre had failed to take effective steps to check the malaise. CPI leaders S Sudhakar Reddy and Gurudas Dasgupta had been raising the issues in Parliament since 2008 and had even written to the Prime Minister, he said. "Did Manmohan Singh reply? No. How...
12:55 AM, Jun 16, 2011
New Delhi: CBI is likely to question former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran in the next few weeks before registering a fresh case in spectrum allocation during 2001-07. The CBI has already registered a preliminary enquiry in the spectrum allocated during 2001-07 and recorded the statement of former Aircel Chief C Sivasankaran in which he is understood to have alleged that Maran had coerced him into selling his firm to a...
12:19 AM, Jun 16, 2011
New Delhi: Despite the red-carpet welcome given by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the newly elected Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on her first trip to the capital quite harshly demanded the resignation of not just one but two Union Cabinet ministers - P Chidambaram and Dayanidhi Maran " on two different grounds. Jayalalithaa, while addressing a press conference, took everyone surprise by accusing the Union home minister for playing...
01:03 PM, Jun 15, 2011
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday demanded the resignations of Union Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran for his alleged role in favouring Malaysian company Maxis Communication and Home Minister P Chidambaram, accusing him of securing a fraudulent victory in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. Addressing a press conference after meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at his residence at 7 Race Course Road in New Delhi, Jayalalithaa said...
01:05 PM, Jun 14, 2011
Hyderabad: Stating that the continuance of Union Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran was "untenable", Communist Party of India (CPI) General Secretary AB Bardhan on Monday demanded that the Prime Minister ascertain that the former was made to quit his post. "Maran's continuance in the Union Cabinet is no longer justified. He must resign. The Prime Minister should see to it that the Minister facing fresh allegations in the 2G spectrum scandal...
12:39 PM, Jun 13, 2011
New Delhi: The mercury is rising for Dayanidhi Maran. The JPC probing spectrum scam will summon all telecom ministers over the last 12 years, including Maran. Meanwhile, sources tell CNN-IBN that Maran will be asked to quit if the CBI files an FRI against him the Sun-Maxis deal. After A raja, the countdown seems to have begun for yet another DMK minister. Prime Minister's office has indicated that textile minister...
09:22 PM, Jun 07, 2011
New Delhi: DMK leader Dayanidhi Maran could be dropped from Cabinet in the next reshuffle for his alleged involvement in the 2G scam, according to sources. Dayanidhi Maran is likely to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Delhi on Tuesday. Sources also say Maran is likely to be named in the FIR in the Aircel-Maxis deal. With allegations against Maran being in the 2G scam, a political realignment in the...
09:13 AM, Jun 07, 2011
New Delhi: Countering former Aircel chief C Sivasankaran's charge on Monday, DMK leader Dayanidhi Maran said he never forced or arm-twisted the former Aircel chief to sell his business when he was the telecom minister. Countering former Aircel chief's charge, Maran questioned why Sivsankaran didn't go to court. "I will prove my innocence (on Aircel controversy)," claimed Maran. "I am not going to react on any speculation. I want to...
05:34 PM, Jun 06, 2011
New Delhi: Aircel founder C Sivasankaran on Monday told the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that he was forced to sell stake in his company after his applications for telecom licence was rejected in 2006 by former communications minister Dayanidhi Maran, sources said. Sivasankaran went to the CBI office in New Delhi on Monday on his own to meet officials investigating the 2G spectrum allocation from 2001 to 2007, and...
05:24 PM, Jun 06, 2011
Mumbai: Extending its gains on the bourses, shares of Sun TV Network, jumped by nearly 8 per cent on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) on Monday, after the company denied any involvement in the 2G scam. Media conglomerate Sun TV settled 7.20 per cent higher at Rs 303.85 on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). In intra-day, the stock spurted by 7.93 per cent to touch a high of Rs 305.95....
05:13 PM, Jun 06, 2011
New Delhi: The CBI on Monday recorded statement of former Aircel chief C Sivasankaran in connection with its ongoing investigations in the second generation spectrum allocation scam during UPA-I regime. CBI sources said Sivasankaran was asked to meet its officials to clarify certain questions and series of events involving alleged irregularities in spectrum allocation to Aircel, a telecom firm founded by him and later sold to Malaysian firm Maxis. Sivasankaran...
01:12 PM, Jun 06, 2011
New Delhi: The government is understood to have left it to the CBI and JPC to look into the alleged irregularities in the grant of licences to Aircel, which is owned by Maxis Telecom of Malaysia, and the involvement of former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran in it. Maran, who is now Textiles Minister from DMK, is facing allegations of bending rules for granting 14 licences to Dishnet Wireless (now Aircel)...
11:53 PM, Jun 03, 2011
