To prevent the use of stolen cards, the Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday asked banks to consider issuing debit cards with photographs of the cardholders on them. "With a view to reducing the instances of misuse of lost/stolen cards, banks may consider issuing cards with photographs of the cardholder or any other advanced methods that may evolve from time to time," the RBI said while issuing guidelines for issuance...
07:44 PM, Dec 12, 2012
New Delhi: The arrest of two girls in Maharashtra for a Facebook post in which they criticised the closure of Mumbai over Bal Thackeray's death has become a national talking point. The event has outraged people all over the country who are now looking for answers from the state as well as the Central governments. Karan Thapar spoke to Information and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal in CNN-IBN's show 'The Last...
09:54 AM, Nov 20, 2012
New Delhi: Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid's wife Louise Khurshid's defamation suit against TV Today group will come up for hearing in Delhi High Court on Friday. Louise had accused the television network of maligning her family and sought damages worth Rs 1 crore. The TV Today group aired a sting operation about how Khurshid's trust for the disabled had forged signatures to acquire funds. Advocate Abhimanyu Bhandari had filed...
07:44 AM, Oct 19, 2012
New Delhi: TV Today, that carried out a sting operation on Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid's trust for the differently-abled, the Zakir Hussain Memorial Trust, revealing alleged misuse of funds, has issued a statement saying that it stands by its story. Salman Khurshid on Sunday had called for TV Today Chairman and MD Aroon Purie to resign. The statement by TV Today said, "This is not a matter of debate...
10:54 AM, Oct 15, 2012
New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal-led India Against Corruption (IAC) members on Sunday protested at the Delhi Airport as Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid arrived in the country after a sting operation by a news channel alleged that an NGO, owned by him and his wife, was involved in cases of financial misappropriation and forgery, a charge denied by the couple. The IAC members will take out a rally against Khurshid and...
10:50 AM, Oct 14, 2012
New Delhi: Blackmailers, rabble-rousers, third rate people doing third rate things - these are the words that Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid used to describe activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal and members of India Against Corruption (IAC), who have levelled charges of corruption against him and his wife, Louise. Khurshid, who was in London for the past two days, returned to India on Sunday. His wife Louise had said that Khurshid would...
07:34 AM, Oct 14, 2012
New Delhi: Law Minister Salman Khurshid's wife Louise Khurshid on Friday filed a civil defamation case in the Delhi High Court against a television group for broadcasting a programme alleging that their NGO siphoned off lakhs of rupees meant for physically challenged people. Seeking damages of Rs 100 crore, the lawsuit was filed against the TV Today group for airing the defamatory programme on its channels, Headlines Today and Aaj...
09:31 AM, Oct 13, 2012
Hyderabad: In view of the rampant transfer of student bus passes found during a special drive launched by APSRTC, the director of the vigilance and security wing of the corporation, VV Srinivas on Friday issued a warning to students not to resort to such practices. The students will face severe punishment if they give their free or concession bus passes to their relatives or friends, he said. Addressing a press...
12:53 PM, Aug 11, 2012
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday ordered notices be issued to 16 Indian Administrative Service and Indian Police Service officers in West Bengal, asking why contempt proceedings should not be started against them for misuse or improper display of the national emblem. Acting on a petition by K. Dey, a division bench of Justice P.C. Ghosh and Justice Tarun Gupta directed the officers to reply to the notices by...
12:03 PM, Dec 08, 2011
CJ Samar Gupta reports from Alwar on the misuse of domestic LPG cylinders in the city, that leads to black-marketing. ...
12:13 AM, Dec 04, 2011
In more embarrassment for Infosys, after two earlier complaints of visa misuse, now a third whistleblower complaint has also been filed. This is the third and potentially even more damaging whistleblower complaint against IT major Infosys by an HR department employee in the US. The email was to another HR employee and Infosys' counsel in the US - Jefferey Friedel - who is overseeing the entire visa issue from a...
07:31 AM, Sep 07, 2011
New Delhi: After targeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former Sports Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar has now dragged Home Minister P Chidambaram's name for failure to check the Commonwealth Games scam. Mani Shankar Aiyar has hit out at Chidambaram for not acting on the basis of his complaints against wasteful expenditure in the organisation of the games. "My letters of complaint were neither acknowledged nor acted upon by Mr Chidambaram who...
01:08 PM, Jul 04, 2011
New Delhi: India on Thursday said it will continue to take up the issue of Pakistan diverting American military aid against it with the US till the time there is a "final solution" to the problem. Defence Minister A K Antony said the past experience and track-record shows that instead of using the American military aid in the fight against Taliban, Pakistan is diverting it against India. "This is a...
11:44 AM, Dec 16, 2010
Washing your car or watering your lawns could cost you Rs 10,000. ...
12:29 PM, Feb 01, 2009
The CAG has highlighted glaring misuse of funds at India's biggest scientific establishment, CSIR. ...
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