New Delhi: Terming it a "massive breach of trust" and a matter that has "shaken its foundation", the Supreme Court of India on Tuesday took a very serious note of the CBI affidavit on the coal block allocation scam and asserted that the probe agency must be "liberated" and should not be controlled by "political masters". The apex court also slammed the probe agency for having kept the court in...
12:07 PM, Apr 30, 2013
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will tell the Supreme Court on Tuesday that changes were made in the status report on the coal block allocation scam after a meeting between the probe agency and Law Minister Ashwani Kumar, sources said. The probe agency is not going to hide anything from the apex court, according to CBI sources. The CBI had on Friday filed its affidavit on the...
10:56 AM, Apr 30, 2013
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to step in to end the political deadlock over coal scam. Sources said the PM is likely to call an all-party meet to break the logjam in Parliament and try and pass the Land Bill and the Food Security Bill. A temporary truce on the Finance Bill was achieved on Monday and the Bill will now be taken up post noon. It...
10:24 AM, Apr 30, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the coal scam case on Tuesday and decide whether the government tried to influence the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe. But there's more embarrassment for the UPA government ahead of the hearing with its top law officers in a war of words. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called a meeting late on Monday night of Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran and Law...
07:45 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Damascus: Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi escaped an assassination bid when a bomb exploded near his convoy in Damascus. The attack killed at least five people and left several others injured including the country's interior minister. The Prime Minister was not hurt. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the suicide attack. The UN has condemned the attack and the civil war, which has claimed more than 70 thousand...
07:33 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Rome: A man was arrested on Sunday after shooting and wounding two police officers outside the Italian prime minister's office in central Rome, police said. One of the wounded law enforcers had been shot in the neck and was in a serious condition, a police official said. The shootings took place as Prime Minister Enrico Letta's new cabinet was being sworn in at the president's palace around one kilometre away....
03:42 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath ruled out the possibility of Law Minister Ashwani Kumar resigning over the coal scam affidavit. ...
06:30 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Lahore: A day after Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh was thrashed inside a Lahore jail in Pakistan, he continues to be critical and in ICU. Two prisoners have been charged and two officials suspended. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has condemned the attack and called it a 'very sad incident'. Police on Saturday registered a case of attempted murder against two prisoners for brutally assaulting Indian national Sarabjit Singh, who was in...
01:30 PM, Apr 27, 2013
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday ruled out the possibility of Law Minister Ashwani Kumar resigning over the coal scam affidavit. "There is no question of the Law Minister resigning. The matter is in court and subjudice. Opposition should allow Parliament to function. We are making a mockery of the system. The whole world is laughing at us," Manmohan Singh said. This comes even as the Opposition continues...
12:50 PM, Apr 27, 2013
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday filed its affidavit on the coal block allocation scam report with the Supreme Court, in which the agency's director Ranjit Sinha has said the draft of the report was shared with Law Minister Ashwani Kumar, a charge that the Congress has been rejecting. The director has also said the draft of the report was even shared with the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) ...
11:49 PM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: With CBI admitting that it had shared its status report on coal block allocation scam with Ashwani Kumar, BJP on Friday demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh alleging that he was using the Law Ministry to save himself from the probe in the case. "CBI today has stated that its affidavit was filed after interference by the government and this proves that the Law Minister was...
02:37 PM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: The Congress core group met a short while back to discuss the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) affidavit on coal block allocation scam report with its allies and backed Law Minister Ashwani Kumar. Kumar told the core group his job was to look at the legal points in the draft and that he had done nothing wrong. Allies said the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would be the next...
02:25 PM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday filed its affidavit on the coal block allocation scam report with the Supreme Court, in which the agency's director Ranjit Sinha has said the draft of the report was shared with Law Minister Ashwani Kumar "as desired by him", a charge that the Congress has been rejecting. The director has also said the draft of the report was even shared...
11:39 AM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: The opposition on Friday raised questions over the meeting between Minister of State in PMO V Narayanasamy and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) director Ranjit Sinha and said the probe agency is being "politicised". But the Union Minister has said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is making an "issue out of nothing". "On the eve of the submission and such an important date if he (Narayanasamy) has...
11:24 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Rome: Italian politician Enrico Letta received a mandate to form a new government from President Giorgio Napolitano, an official at the Quirinale Palace announced on Wednesday. Letta, the nephew of former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's long-time chief of staff Gianni Letta and deputy leader of the Democratic Party, is considered a moderate acceptable to the centre-right. His appointment was announced by Donato Marra, head of Napolitano's secretariat. ...
06:05 PM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: Finance Minister P Chidambaram yet again parried questions on his becoming the Prime Minister saying he has no such aspirations and would like to do party work. "I have no such expectations. I have no such aspiration and I believe that in the few years that remain to me, I want to do (a) few other things, like travel," he said when asked whom he would like to...
11:28 AM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday expressed confidence that the economy will return to higher growth path of 7-8 per cent in next two to three years and pitched for revitalising investments in the country. "We are confident that we will return to 7-8 per cent growth bracket in the next two to three years. We need to revitalise investment in the country for this purpose," Pranab said at...
08:07 PM, Apr 23, 2013
CBI report on Coal scam takes Parliament by storm, what lies ahead? CNN-IBN's national bureau chief Bhupendra Chaubey joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. Its not the first time that the government had influenced CBI ..but how come this time CBI chief had raised his voice and come in public about it. Asked by: Rajneesh A. It's a good point you raise. I think difference this...
06:32 PM, Apr 23, 2013
New Delhi: Rejecting the possibility of a third front coming to power after the next Lok Sabha polls, BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday said the very idea is a "tried and failed experiment" which will never become a reality. He said regional parties cannot claim themselves as an alternative. "There is no possibility of a third front in the country. The idea of a third front is a tried...
03:05 PM, Apr 23, 2013
New Delhi: A day after CNN-IBN revealed that the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) affidavit on coal block allocation scam says the Law Minister allegedly vetted the probe agency's status report on the scam, the main Opposition the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) parliamentary party has decided that its MPs will continue to press for the ouster of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Law Minister Ashwani Kumar. The CBI's affidavit...
11:24 AM, Apr 23, 2013
