Male: Facing coup charges, the Maldives' new regime on Monday said it was open to any independent probe into transfer of power in the country, where the Commonwealth was sending a fact-finding team amid efforts by nations like India to resolve the political crisis. Nearly a week after Mohammed Nasheed, the country's first democratically-elected President, stepped down in what he claimed was a coup attempt, the 54-nation Commonwealth grouping announced...
08:38 PM, Feb 13, 2012
London: The BBC has apologised for broadcasting documentaries made by a TV company that was paid millions of pounds by clients. The group issued an apology to 74 million BBC World News viewers around the world for breaking "rules aimed at protecting our editorial integrity", the Daily Mail reported. A London-based company made eight documentaries for the BBC about Malaysia, but failed to declare it was paid 17 million pounds...
06:30 PM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: Indians are the largest depositors in banks abroad with an estimated $ 500 billion (nearly Rs 24.5 lakh crore) of illegal money stashed by them in tax havens, the CBI Director said on Monday. India, in particular, has suffered from the flow of illegal funds to tax havens such as Mauritius, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, British Virgin Islands etc. "It is estimated that around 500 billion dollars of illegal money...
03:19 PM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: The government is planning to rope in health and nutrition experts to study living pattern of tribals, including Jarawas of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, in an effort to reduce their susceptibility to diseases. Observing that the immunity of tribals and forest dwellers in the country is an area of concern, Tribal Affairs Minister V Kishore Chandra Deo told PTI that "utmost importance" should be given to their health...
02:58 PM, Feb 12, 2012
New Delhi: The government is mulling a probe by the Enforcement Directorate and the Income Tax department into the role of two Mauritius-based entities to identify their stakes in Devas Multimedia Pvt Ltd which executed the controversial S-band deal with the ISRO. It is also contemplating investigation into activities of certain unknown government officials for their "collusive behaviour" and acts of omission and commission in extending undue favours to Devas...
02:12 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Former deputy Army chief Lieutenant General (Retired) Raj Kadyan said General VK Singh's position was untenable and he should quit. ...
11:42 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Bangalore: Seeking to soothe ruffled feathers in the wake of ISRO row, the Government on Friday described the scientific community as a national asset that cannot be taken lightly, even as it appeared to soften its stand against the blacklisted four ex-functionaries of the space department. Responding to queries from reporters, Union Corporate Affairs Minister M Veerappa Moily referred to the statement of BK Chaturvedi, who along with Roddam Narasimha...
06:08 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Puneet Bali, the counsel for General VK Singh in the age row, said on Friday that the matter had been resolved very gracefully. "It is a victory for everybody. This matter has been resolved very gracefully." He said that it was very hurting to see "certain sections" reporting that the General perhaps wanted to cling on to the post. ...
03:45 PM, Feb 10, 2012
The Indian Envoy to the UN, Hardeep Puri, on Friday categorically ruled out any unwarranted interference by the Indian Government in the Maldives. ...
01:57 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Chennai: DMK president M Karunanidhi on Thursday slammed BJP for trying to "help" Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa to come out of the disproportionate wealth case being heard in a Bangalore court by exerting pressure on Karnataka's Advocate General and the Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) BV Acharya. In a statement issued here, Karunanidhi said the BJP and the Karnataka government were trying to remove Acharya from the SPP post...
03:01 AM, Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: Nine official websites including that of the Power Ministry, Maharashtra, Kerala and Uttarakhand Governments were defaced in the recent past, forcing the authorities to strengthen cyber security safeguards. The websites www.kumbh2010haridwar.gov.in, www.ueppcb.uk.gov.in, www.gov.ua.nic.in/ujn, www.cdodoon.gov.in, www.arunachal.nic.in,www.bee-india.nic.in, www.civilsupplieskerala.gov.in, www.mpcb.gov.in and www.informatics.nic.in were defaced, the National Informatics Centre (NIC) under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology said in an RTI reply. "A number of hacking attempts are made on daily...
03:25 PM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: The government on Thursday approved setting up of a national centre for cold chain development and allocated a one-time grant of Rs 25 crore for its corpus fund. The decision comes in the wake of post harvest losses to the tune of Rs 50,000 crore annually in absence of proper storage facilities. "The Union Cabinet today gave its ex-post facto approval for registering National Centre for Cold Chain...
01:00 PM, Feb 09, 2012
Bangalore: In a fresh embarrassment for the Karnataka government, Advocate General B V Acharya has resigned from his post. The move came after Acharya was asked to quit as the Special Public Prosecutor in the Jayalalithaa Disproportionate Assets case. Acharya said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government had asked him to resign as the Special Public Prosecutor citing conflict of interest. Acharya quit after a public interest litigation (PIL)...
09:23 AM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the central and Delhi governments for denial of a medical certificate to a non-resident Indian victim of the 2011 bomb blast outside the court complex, which was preventing him from visiting his family in Toronto, Canada. Taking suo motu cognisance of a media report published in a national daily, the division bench of Acting Chief Justice AK Sikri and...
01:57 AM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Government has rejected Reliance Industries' demand for a revision in the KG-D6 gas price, saying the $4.2 per mmBtu rate for five years was not only agreed to by the Mukesh Ambani-run firm but also upheld by the Supreme Court. The Ministry on January 30 wrote to RIL quoting from the May 7, 2010, Supreme Court judgement in the gas row between the company and Anil Ambani's...
05:56 PM, Feb 07, 2012
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