New Delhi: Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar on Tuesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and possibly discussed the situation on the CBI coalgate report. Sources said they discussed the government's stand in case the opposition makes it an issue in Parliament.
A short while later, the CBI came out with a clarification declaring that it was not under any pressure in the probe into coal allocation allegations.
This came more than 96 hours after the Indian Express reported that the Law Minister and PMO officials had 'vetted' the CBI status report.
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06:13 PM, Apr 16, 2013
The second day of the two-day Think Edu Conclave organised by the New Indian Express brought to the fore a kaleidoscope of views on India's education sector. ...
10:24 PM, Mar 10, 2013
RP Singh has again shifted his stance on the 2G report suggesting it was PAC Chairman Manohar manohar Joshi who had interfered in the preparation of the report. ...
04:09 PM, Nov 25, 2012
Former Director General of Audit, Post and Telecommunications, CAG, RP Singh on Saturday made a U-turn on his earlier claim that Public Accounts Committee Chairman and BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi had influenced the 2G report that indicted the government. ...
07:18 AM, Nov 25, 2012
Chennai: There seems to be no end to the flip-flops on part of the IIT-Madras management. While on Saturday they had clearly stated to media representatives in front of senior police officers that they would ensure withdrawal of the false complaint filed against The New Indian Express photographer Albin Mathew, this stand was reversed at a faculty meet held inside the campus on Sunday where professors were apparently told that...
02:27 PM, Aug 27, 2012
Chennai: The police have registered a case against six persons, including IIT-M Professor Maiya and five security guards of the institution, for assaulting Express photographer Albin Mathew. Both Mathew and Maiya were summoned to the Kotturpuram Police Station on Wednesday evening.After preliminary probe, a case was registered under Sec 147 (punishment for rioting), 341 (wrongful restraint), 342 (wrongful confinement) and 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), and 506 (ii) (threat to cause...
07:51 AM, Aug 24, 2012
New Delhi: Minister of State for Defence MM Pallam Raju has said that "someone" in the government "may have read too much" into the movement of two key army units towards Delhi in January. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, he said that there are protocols that exist where somebody has to be informed or somebody has to be kept in the loop. Here is the full transcript of...
08:30 PM, Apr 09, 2012
New Delhi: Army Chief General VK Singh on Saturday hit out at the Indian Express report earlier this week that claimed that two Army units made an "unauthorised" movement towards the capital on the night of January 16. In an interview to the Hindu newspaper, the General called the report "fables of a sick mind", "absurd and deplorable". According to The Hindu, the Army Chief said that there was no...
10:21 AM, Apr 07, 2012
New Delhi: That there was some talk about the mid-January movement of two elite Army units towards the capital which had exercised Army Chief Gen V K Singh's mind is evident in an interview he had given to an English magazine in middle of March. "Even, let us say one of our forces or divisions or brigades does exercise, somebody will say, oh! they did exercise. It was not an...
07:02 PM, Apr 05, 2012
Kathmandu: Army Chief General VK Singh on Thursday joined the political leadership in dismissing 'The Indian Express' story on the suspicious movement of two key Army units towards Delhi in January 2012, which reportedly "spooked" the Central Government. "This is absolutely stupid," was all that the Army Chief said in Nepal's capital Kathmandu while reacting to the Army units movement report. The terse statement was his first since the controversy...
12:12 PM, Apr 05, 2012
New Delhi: Indian Army officials, Government and some editors have raised doubts on the story in The Indian Express that claimed 'suspicious' movement of Army units towards New Delhi. However, The Indian Express stood by its story. The newspaper's Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta clarified his stand while speaking to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai on Wednesday and claimed that the report brought the facts out in public interest. Following is an excerpt...
07:43 AM, Apr 05, 2012
Is the Indian Express story an attempt to damage the image of the Indian army and General V K Singh? ...
11:57 PM, Apr 04, 2012
The Indian Express carried a report on Wednesday saying that two Army columns marched towards the capital in January without notifying the government. ...
10:49 PM, Apr 04, 2012
Lieutenant General (Retd) BS Malik on Wednesday refuted the Indian Express report on 'suspicious' movement of Army troops, calling it baseless. ...
06:49 PM, Apr 04, 2012
The Prime Minister and the Defence Ministry have rubbished the report of The Indian Express on 'suspicious' movement of Army troops. ...
04:02 PM, Apr 04, 2012
BANGALORE: All the inhibitions and strangeness melted away as Indias Missileman, who rose on the wings of fire to fame and ignited millions of minds across the globe, welcomed Team Express at Raj Bhavans palatial suite for an informal chat.It was past midnight, but his very presence oozed enthusiasm and set the ambience perfect for a candid talk. Former President of India A P J Abdul Kalam has the agility...
09:08 AM, Apr 02, 2012
Siddiqui was nominated the party's national general secretary in 2008. ...
04:58 PM, Dec 14, 2009
Indian Express photographer Vasant Prabhu was covering the terror attack. ...
03:51 AM, Dec 12, 2008
The three leading parties in the election had their base vote, alliances gave them the plus vote. ...
10:23 PM, May 08, 2007
The story of the Uttar Pradesh elections has so far been the rise and rise of the BSP. ...
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