Former Air Force chief SP Tyagi helped in swinging the VVIP chopper deal in favour of Finmeccanica subsidiary AgustaWestland by lowering the service height from 6000 metres to 4,500 metres, the CBI's FIR states. The FIR, however, doesn't mention Tyagi having received money in the deal. ...
05:19 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Miranda has made 88 appearances for Atletico during his year and a half with the club. ...
02:26 PM, Mar 13, 2013
The CBI on Wednesday filed an FIR against 12 people including former Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi and his cousins Julie and Docsa in the AgustaWestland chopper deal case. The FIR names four firms and 12 people. ...
10:53 AM, Mar 13, 2013
Tamil film 'Deal' is directed by Siva Gnanam, it will star Arun Vijay and Kathika in lead roles. ...
01:52 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Both the Houses of Parliament had to be adjourned twice on Tuesday after the Opposition took on the government over Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra's land deals. Questions have earlier been raised over Vadra's land deals in Haryana and Rajasthan. ...
12:17 PM, Mar 12, 2013
A Milan court has rejected a request by former Finmeccanica Chairman and CEO Giuseppe Orsi to be released from jail, legal sources said on Monday. ...
11:32 PM, Mar 11, 2013
The government has received the first set of official documents from Italy in connection with the VVIP chopper scam including the warrants issued against former Finmeccanica CEO Giuseppe Orsi by authorities there. The documents are expected to fast-track the Indian investigations into the bribery allegations in the Rs 3,600 crore deal for 12 AW-101 choppers, highly-placed government sources said in Delhi. ...
09:26 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Former Indian Air Force (IAF) chief SP Tyagi has named former Special Protection Group (SPG) chief Bharat Vir Wanchoo as being one of the men responsible for making alterations to the terms of the AgustaWestland deal. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to question Wanchoo who enjoys constitutional immunity, as the current Goa Governor. ...
07:21 AM, Mar 09, 2013
In a huge setback for former Indian Air Force (IAF) Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is all set to file an FIR against him under sections of cheating and bribery in the AgustaWestland VVIP helicopter deal. ...
11:37 PM, Mar 08, 2013
CBI officials believe that Air Chief Marshal (retd) SP Tyagi accepted a bribe from his cousins to help AgustaWestland's entry into the tender process. ...
09:25 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Gautam Khaitan, former board member of Aeromatrix, one of the companies named in the VVIP helicopter bribery scandal, was on Thursday quizzed by CBI on his alleged links with Italian middlemen. Khaitan, an advocate, who arrived at CBI headquarters at around 10 in the morning, was grilled for nearly eight hours in connection with his alleged links with Italian middlemen - Carlo Gerosa and Guido Haschkhe, CBI sources said. ...
08:25 PM, Mar 07, 2013
India's slowest economic growth in a decade could be even worse than anticipated, as preliminary data released in February showed the economy appears to have grown 5.0 per cent in the fiscal year that ends this month - lower than both the RBI and finance minister's forecasts - underscoring the urgent need for reforms to boost growth. ...
12:15 PM, Mar 07, 2013
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday questioned former Director of Aeromatrix Gautam Khaitan in the AgustaWestland chopper deal case. Khaitan was questioned in connection with his links to middlemen in the chopper deal. ...
11:39 AM, Mar 07, 2013
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will question Air Force former chief SP Tyagi and his cousins for a second day on Thursday in connection with the Agustawestland chopper scandal. A preliminary inquiry report was filed last week which named 12 people. ...
07:29 AM, Mar 07, 2013
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday questioned former Indian Air Force chief SP Tyagi in connection with the AgustaWestland chopper deal case. Earlier reports had said that Tyagi would be questioned on Thursday. ...
04:30 PM, Mar 06, 2013
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday questioned cousins of former Air Chief SP Tyagi in connection with alleged kickbacks in VVIP helicopter deal. ...
03:06 PM, Mar 06, 2013
A brigadier, whose name figured in the allegations of kickbacks in the chopper deal, has been asked by the government about the charges, which he has denied. The allegations were levelled against the brigadier for seeking USD five million from AgustaWestland during an ongoing probe in Italy into the alleged involvement of Finmeccanica in paying kickbacks to secure the deal for 12 VVIP choppers. ...
09:04 PM, Mar 04, 2013
After taking back possession of a prime land allotted to yoga guru Baba Ramdev for alleged violations of statutory provisions, Himachal Pradesh has begun another probe into permission granted to lawyer Prashant Bhushan to purchase land in the state, a minister said on Friday. ...
05:58 AM, Mar 02, 2013
Former Maldivian President Mohammed Nasheed spoke to CNN-IBN in his first interview to an Indian TV channel. Speaking to CNN-IBN he said that he will restore the GMR deal with Maldives Airport if he comes to power. "We will restore the deal and will do it in a transparent way," he said. ...
08:27 AM, Mar 01, 2013
"I've decided that I'd like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding - I was fired today," Mason, wrote to employees. ...
08:15 AM, Mar 01, 2013
