New Delhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram on Monday clarified yet again on the Aircel-Maxis deal, saying his family was not directly or indirectly related to the controversial issue. Chidambaram mounted a defence against allegations that his son Karthi benefited from the Aircel-Maxis deal. He said that the firm his son works for only provided consultancy. Chidamabram said he's open to a probe and denied any member of his family has...
01:03 PM, May 14, 2012
Is the BJP carrying out a personal vendetta against P Chidambaram as it has stepped up the campaign against the Home Minister. ...
11:18 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: Government on Tuesday dismissed as "factually incorrect and totally baseless" news reports the then Finance Minister P Chidambaram had delayed clearance by Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) to Aircel-Maxis deal in 2006. In a statement, the government said it had earlier issued a press release on April 28 regarding the foreign investment made by M/s. Global Communication Services Holdings Ltd., Mauritius, to acquire 73.99 per cent equity in...
04:07 PM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: Government on Thursday dismissed as "outrageous lie" a media report that at the behest of Home Minister P Chidambaram and his ministry telephones of key government functionaries were bugged. An official statement said attention of the Government has been drawn to a news story published in 'Chauthi Duniya' recently. "The story contains outrageous, baseless and defamatory allegations. There is no truth in the story whatsoever. The allegations that...
11:30 PM, May 03, 2012
New Delhi: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday said that it's unfortunate that some states harbour distrust with the central government on various issues. "We will resolve differences between some states and the central government. It's regrettable that after 5 such conferences, some states harbour distrust with the central government," he told reporters. "If the states are willing to accept more responsibility then we can step back. If the...
03:08 PM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday said that India would have ended up as the poorest nation in the world if its economy had grown at 3.5 per cent a year. "If we had continued to grow at a 3.5 per cent a year, we would have become the poorest nation in South Asia and perhaps poorest in the world. It is important that we must grow," Chidambaram...
02:47 AM, Mar 28, 2012
Jammu and Kashmir Home Minister Nasir Aslam Wani said police will question senior Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani. ...
07:01 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Gurgaon, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram fired a couple of rounds from a Light Machine Gun (LMG) to give a sound start to the opening of a shooting drill on Wednesday. Chidambaram pulled the trigger like a professional shooter prompting reporters to ask whether he hit the bull's eye but there were no answers from officials present at Kadarpur school where he had gone to inaugurate the Intelligence School of...
04:22 PM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: Gujarat High Court on Monday rejected application by Jagriti Pandya seeking reinvestigation into Haren Pandya murder case. Jagriti Pandya is widow of former Gujarat Home Minsiter Haren Pandya. Pandya was gunned down in 2003. The Gujarat High Court on January 19 directed the CBI and the state government to file replies to a petition seeking re-investigations of murder of Haren Pandya. The court had said that petition filed...
01:59 PM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee is meeting on Friday to discuss the Unique ID project row. Sources have indicated that a compromise has been reached. Both the Nandan Nilekani-led Unique ID Authority of India and the Registrar General of India will be carrying out parallel exercises to collect biometric data, they say. While the UIDAI will do it in 13 states, the Registrar General of India will collect data in...
09:22 AM, Jan 27, 2012
New Delhi: BJP's UP election in-charge Sanjay Joshi has written a letter to the Union Home Minister alleging that some unknown elements are trying to kill him. CNN-IBN has accessed a copy of the threat letter sent by Joshi to the Home Minister. Letter threatens Joshi to leave Uttar Pradesh and go back to Nagpur. In his letter, Joshi has asked the minister to take action and provide him security....
07:45 PM, Jan 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has admitted the appeals filed by the CBI and Gujarat government challenging the acquittal by the High Court of 12 convicts in the murder of former Home Minister Haren Pandya. A bench of justices P Sathasivam and J Chalameshwar admitted the appeal filed by the investigating agency and the state police questioning the August 29, 2010, acquittal by the High Court as being erroneous. The...
11:18 AM, Jan 05, 2012
New Delhi: The government on Friday admitted that violence in the country was still at an "unacceptably high level" and reminded militant groups of the futility of armed movement saying only talks can bring solution to their problems. "Violence is still at an unacceptably high level and every effort will be made to contain violence," Home Minister P Chidambaram said at a press conference. The Home Minister said militant groups...
07:29 PM, Dec 30, 2011
Bangalore: Karnataka Home Minister R Ashok was on Friday given a clean chit by Lokayukta police before a court in a case pertaining to alleged misuse of office in land denotification. The Lokayukta police submitted a report to Lokayukta Judge N Sundhindra Rao, exonerating the minister of the charge into which it had ordered a probe, based on a complaint by an RTI activist. Lokayukta police submitted that it was...
06:33 PM, Dec 16, 2011
New Delhi: A day after IBN network aired a report showing an alleged case of conflict of interest against Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, the Opposition renewed its offensive demanding his resignation and stalled Parliament. Even as the Congress defended him, Delhi's Lt Governor revoked the withdrawal of prosecution against the hotelier in question. CNN-IBN had exposed on Wednesday how the Union Home Minister acted in conflict of interest while...
09:45 PM, Dec 15, 2011
New Delhi: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, who is already facing Opposition boycott in the 2G case, is in fresh trouble. The latest controversy concerns the Metropolitan Hotel in the Capital and its owners. The Home Minister, who was earlier a practising lawyer, had fought their case. A series of letters and documentary evidence have revealed how Chidambaram, after taking over as Home Minister, continued to take regular interest in...
08:12 PM, Dec 14, 2011
The BJP-led NDA is demanding that Chidambaram should resign for his alleged complicity in the 2G scam. ...
11:14 PM, Nov 21, 2011
New Delhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram will visit quake-hit Sikkim on Thursday to take stock of the relief and rescue work there. Chidambaram will be briefed about the ground situation and relief camps set up state administration, police and central forces during his visit. More than 3,000 people were rescued in quake-hit areas of Sikkim by defence forces which scrambled hard to clear debris of collapsed structures and landslides as...
04:26 PM, Sep 21, 2011
New Delhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday made a startling claim that a SIMI plot to assassinate the three judges who had delivered the Ayodhya verdict was foiled. He said more than 50 terror modules have been neutralised since the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks and that a SIMI plot to assassinate the three judges who had delivered the Ayodhya verdict in Madhya Pradesh was foiled. "A 10-member SIMI gang...
10:20 AM, Sep 15, 2011
New Delhi: BJP on Monday joined issue with Home Minister P Chidambaram over his comments that fighting terrorism was more a state responsibility, saying he was abdicating his duties as the menace was spread over ten states and a coordinated effort was required to combat it. "As long as Chidambaram is on the scene, we will keep hearing of new terminologies everyday. So far no arrest has been made in...
09:04 PM, Sep 13, 2011
