New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs has denied claims in Pakistani media that the Indian High Commission officials were consulted by Pakistani authorities before Sarabjit Singh was taken off ventilator support resulting in his death late on Wednesday night at Lahore's Jinnah Hospital. Sarabjit's family members also claimed that they came to know of his death from the Pakistani media and nothing was communicated to them officially. Meanwhile, Pakistan...
09:41 AM, May 02, 2013
Lahore/New Delhi: 3:46 pm: Another post-mortem of Sarabjit Singh will be conducted when his body reaches Amritsar. 3:29 pm: Sarabjit Singh's post-mortem report will be released in Pakistan in three weeks. 3:09 pm: The post-mortem of Sarabjit Singh has been completed in Pakistan and his body will be handed over to Indian officials shortly. 2:44 pm: The Indian Foreign Secretary has spoken to his Pakistani counterpart asking him to speed...
08:31 AM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Calling Sarabjit Singh a "brave son of India", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh condoled his death in Pakistan and demanded that those responsible for the attack on the Indian prisoner should be brought to justice. "I am deeply saddened by the passing away of Sarabjit Singh. He was a brave son of India who bore his tribulations with valiant fortitude. The criminals responsible for the barbaric and murderous attack...
08:18 AM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: FM radio services would now spread to 294 cities across the country with the government on Wednesday approving a proposal which will involve private agencies. The Union Cabinet, at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, approved the auction of 839 channels in 294 cities to be awarded through ascending e-auction through private agencies. It decided that the authority to make any other minor change in Request...
06:58 PM, May 01, 2013
Sajjan Kumar's acquittal in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case has left those, who lost their kins in the massacre, aggrieved. HS Phoolka, who has been spearheading the legal battle for the riot victims, joined IBNLive readers in an interaction on the future of the case as they prepare to take the matter to higher courts. Q. Mr Phoolka, why is it that the police is not able to build a...
05:13 PM, May 01, 2013
Chennai: Slamming the Jayalalithaa government for opposing the Sethusamudram project, DMK on Wednesday announced state-wide public meetings on May 15 to press the Centre for speedily completing the project. "Not realising that this project, once implemented, would help the State to grow economically and to further prosper, the AIADMK regime by opposing it has become an anti-people government", DMK said in a statement. It said the meetings were being organised...
04:59 PM, May 01, 2013
Washington: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi are among 16 Indians who have found a place in the prestigious Foreign Policy magazine's list of the 500 most powerful people on the planet. Apart from them, Finance Minister P Chidambaram, Defence Minister AK Antony and External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid are also in the list. Indian spiritual leaders Baba Ramdev and Sri Sri Ravishankar are also in the...
04:45 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: India on Wednesday asked Pakistan to release death row convict Sarabjit Singh so that he could benefit from the best possible treatment available in India or alternatively, shift him to a third country on humanitarian and sympathetic grounds. The MEA issued a statement on the matter saying, "Our High Commissioner has met the Pakistan Foreign Secretary and urged the Government of Pakistan to immediately release Shri Sarabjit Singh...
04:22 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's sister Dalbir Kaur, who returned to India from Pakistan on Wednesday, demanded Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's resignation and said she will not eat till her brother returns home. "When my brother returns home, I will eat only then. I want to apologise to his kids that I wasn't able to bring Sarabjit back," Dalbir Kaur said. Lashing out at the Indian government for not...
01:12 PM, May 01, 2013
Telugu film 'Dhokaradu' starring Sivajji and Gayatri as the lead is inching its completion. The film is directed by Vara Prasad and Sriram Ajay is producing the film under the banner of Chandrakala Arts Creations. The director said in an interview, "This is an action entertainer and it will become one of the landmark films of Sivaji's career. The audio of the film will be released in the second week...
12:39 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: The UPA-II is facing one of the biggest crisis in its tenure after the Supreme Court asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to explain the extent of political interference in its investigations into the coal block allocations scam and name the officials involved in the exercise. Harin Raval has already resigned as the Additional Solicitor General. The question now is whether the man at the centre of the...
08:40 AM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: India has a set of complex laws which have to be simplified in order to reduce the incidence of corruption, Delhi Lokayukta Justice Manmohan Sarin said on Tuesday. The doctrine of name-and-shame can also be one of the ways to deal with a corrupt government official and practiced by anyone who wants to stand up against corruption, he said. Speaking at a seminar to launch a book titled...
03:46 AM, May 01, 2013
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10:54 PM, Apr 30, 2013
New Delhi: Left grappling with a mess after the Supreme Court's indictment, government and the Congress on deliberated at length on the continuation of Law Minister Ashwani Kumar in the Cabinet but a decision may wait till the next hearing in the Coalgate on May 8. As opposition mounted its demand for Kumar's removal, sections in the party as well as in the government are said to feel that instead...
10:31 PM, Apr 30, 2013
The Supreme court on Tuesday tore into the UPA government and the Central Bureau of Investigation demanding answers on the government's alleged interference in the CBI coal allocations probe. ...
09:50 PM, Apr 30, 2013
In a damning indictment of the UPA government, the Supreme Court on Tuesday came down hard on the UPA for interfering in the CBI's probe into coal allocations. ...
09:34 PM, Apr 30, 2013
New Delhi: In what is likely to spell more trouble for the government, sources on Tuesday said that the CBI's draft status report on coal scam was vetted by Attorney General GE Vahanvati. According to sources, Vahanvati settled the status report himself by making hand written changes on a draft copy. Additional Solicitor General Harin Raval, who resigned earlier in the day, had in his letter to Vahanvati on Monday...
09:20 PM, Apr 30, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court's observations on the CBI's affidavit on its coal scam report have been fodder for the opposition to step up the political heat. Law Minister Ashawni Kumar and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh are in the line of fire. However, the UPA's crisis managers have said that no decision on the Law Minister's future will be taken until the Supreme Court passes a final order. Ashwani Kumar,...
09:02 PM, Apr 30, 2013
CBI director Ranjit Sinha on Tuesday said that the agency was not embarrassed over the SC ire and said it will provide all the information sought by the apex court. ...
07:07 PM, Apr 30, 2013
New Delhi: Additional Solicitor General Harin Raval on Tuesday resigned over coalgate. In a statement, he said, "I am resigning as ASG in SC as desired. Please accept this with immediate effect and oblige. I am grateful for the opportunity to serve the government." Raval had represented the CBI in earlier hearings in the Supreme Court. His resignation comes just after his explosive letter to Attorney General GE Vahanvati whom...
06:47 PM, Apr 30, 2013
