New Delhi: In Maharashtra, political parties may be sparring for a land for a memorial of Babasaheb Ambedkar but not too many moved by the plight of a Dalit woman who was assaulted and paraded naked at Mulgaon village in Satara, all because her son eloped with a girl from a higher caste. After she was stripped, paraded naked and beaten mercilessly by lathis, this Dalit Woman in the district...
09:24 PM, Jan 11, 2012
New Delhi: In the latest development in controversy surrounding the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) role in the 2G scam report, CNN-IBN has accessed a copy of a letter written by CAG RB Singh to Deputy CAG Rekha Gupta. A fresh controversy broke out in 2G case on Tuesday with the surfacing of a letter which suggested that Parliament's Public Accounts Committee chief Murli Manohar Joshi had called up a...
01:30 PM, Nov 15, 2011
Deputy CAG Rekha Gupta wrote a note directing RP Singh to put his signatures on the last page of the report. ...
10:46 PM, Nov 14, 2011
New Delhi: Did the 2G scam cost the country Rs 1.76 lakh crore or was that figure inflated? RP Singh, the lead auditor of the CAG who investigated the scam, on Monday told the Joint Parlimentary Committee that he was forced into signing on the inflated loss amount. CNN-IBN has accesed letters which prove that RP Singh was indeed under preassure. Internal notes show RP Singh may have been arm...
06:13 PM, Nov 14, 2011
New Delhi: Against the backdrop of dispute over the figure of Rs 1.76 lakh crore loss in 2G spectrum allocation, CAG Vinod Rai has offered to appear before the JPC looking into the 2G scam once again. Rai recently wrote to JPC offering to make himself along with his officials 'available' whenever their 'assistance' is sought. Rai, along with other officials of the Comptroller and Auditor General, had appeared before...
11:53 AM, Oct 30, 2011
New Delhi: A day after CNN-IBN exposed the letters exchanged between two senior Comptroller Auditor General (CAG) officers, deputy CAG Rekha Gupta and RP Singh, in the CAG office on the issue of the 2G loss figures of a whopping Rs 1,76,000 crores. The Congress is now using it to sharpen its attack against the CAG . RP Singh, the auditor who put his signatures on the CAG report in...
09:47 PM, Oct 29, 2011
New Delhi: A split in the CAG over the 2G loss figure has come to the fore. CNN-IBN has accessed copies of confidential notes that show the lead auditor was forced to take the Comptroller Auditor General's line. The confidential notes were exchanged between Deputy CAG Rekha Gupta and Director General for Audits R P Singh. According to them, R P Singh was coerced into toeing Gupta and CAG Vinod...
08:24 AM, Oct 29, 2011
New Delhi: More proof of the split in the CAG office has surfaced over the calculation of 2G losses. CNN-IBN has copies of top secret notes exchanged between Deputy CAG Rekha Gupta and DG (Audit) RP Singh which shows that Singh was being coerced into toeing a line that Gupta and CAG Vinod Rai had already worked out. A letter written by Gupta accused Singh of not auditing the 2G...
06:04 PM, Oct 28, 2011
Rekha turns citizen journalist to demand the compensation promised for her dead son. ...
09:42 PM, Jul 23, 2011
Mumbai: Actress Priyanka Chopra praises Ishqiya and congratulates filmmaker-composer-singer Vishal Bhardwaj and his wife Rekha for winning national awards for the movie. The rural drama was the directorial debut of Abhishek Chaubey and Bhardwaj produced it and even composed music for the movie that saw Naseeruddin Shah, Arshad Warsi and Vidya Balan in the lead roles. At the 58th National Awards, announced in the capital on Thursday, Rekha was named...
02:33 PM, May 20, 2011
Mumbai: Vishal Bhardwaj bagged his fourth national award on Thursday, but more than being happy for himself, the filmmaker-singer-composer was elated over his wife's first win. Both were honoured for the film IshqiyaGodmother, Blue Umbrella and Omkara in different categories. "Definitely the feeling that you get when you receive an award for the first time is totally different, but whenever you get an award, it's a great feeling and it...
11:06 AM, May 20, 2011
Washington: Popular Indian-American "Bhangra Queen" Rekha Malhotra has been invited by US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama to perform live at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll. As many as 30,000 people from across the United States are expected to attend the annual White House event, a rare occasion when the building is thrown open to the public. The White House invitation for DJ Rekha is...
10:46 PM, Apr 19, 2011
Mumbai: The music launch of Onir's forthcoming film 'I Am' was held on Saturday evening. The film deals with subjects ranging from child abuse to homosexuality. Apart from touching upon sensitive issues, film maker Onir's latest offering 'I Am' has packed in quite a punch with its music as well. The music has been composed by three music directors - Rajiv Bhalla, Vivek Philip and the sensational Amit Trivedi. Juhi...
02:05 PM, Apr 18, 2011
A huge fan of Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, singer Rekha Bharadwaj gave the audience a rendition of some of the legendary writer's finest poems at Mumbai's Prithvi Theatre. ...
10:36 AM, Mar 21, 2011
