New Delhi: Central Vigilance Commissioner PJ Thomas resigned after the Supreme Court held his appointment as illegal, Law Minister M Veerappa Moily said on Thursday. "He has resigned...the Supreme Court has also held his appointment as illegal," Moily told reporters here. To a question on the apex court's rap on the government on Thomas' appointment, Moily said, "We respect the judgement. Other details we won't be able to say because...
12:10 PM, Mar 03, 2011
New Delhi: Air India's first COO Capt Gustav Baldauf resigned on Monday and he was relieved with immediate effect, just days after he was asked to explain his reported remarks about political interference in the state-owned airline's day-to-day affairs. An Air India spokesman said tonight that Baldauf's resignation has been accepted and the Chief Operating Officer was relieved with immediate effect. Baldauf, an Austrian national, was appointed as a COO...
09:05 PM, Feb 28, 2011
Bhubaneswar: Orissa's Women and Child Development Minister Pramila Mallick today resigned in the wake of allegation of a Rs 700-crore scam in purchase of dal for mid-day meal scheme and Supplementary Nutrition Programme (SNP). "I have tendered my resignation on my own on moral grounds for the interest of the BJD party and to keep the clean image of the government intact," Mallick told reporters after putting in her papers...
02:31 PM, Feb 05, 2011
Bangalore: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa will quit if a 'prima facie' case is made out on corruption and illegal land deal charges against him, former BJP president Rajnath Singh said Thursday. "He will quit if prima facie case is made out, no need to tell him to," Singh told reporters here. Singh said there was no need for Yeddyurappa to quit now as no case has been made...
05:43 PM, Feb 03, 2011
Bangalore: Wipro Ltd surprised markets with the resignations of the joint-CEOs of its information technology business, after reporting profit growth rates which lagged rivals Infosys Technologies Ltd and Tata Consultancy Services. India's third-ranked software services exporter said company veteran TK Kurien was taking over as the new chief executive of the unit. "The joint CEO structure was one of the key factors that successfully helped us navigate the worst economic...
11:39 AM, Jan 21, 2011
San Francisco: Advanced Micro Devices Inc Inc's chief executive resigned on Monday as the world's No. 2 maker of PC microprocessor chips said it was seeking a new CEO to boost the company's growth, sending shares down nearly 4 percent in after-hours trading. AMD said the resignation of Dirk Meyer was the result of a "mutual agreement" with the board of directors and that Chief Financial Officer Thomas Seifert will...
11:45 AM, Jan 11, 2011
New Delhi: Under fire from both the Opposition and the Supreme Court over corruption taint, Chief Vigilance Commissioner P J Thomas is set to resign on Wednesday. Sources have told CNN-IBN that Thomas is waiting for President Pratibha Patil's return to submit his resignation. With repeated Supreme Court censure, pressure has been mounting on the CVC. He was asked to step down voluntarily on Tuesday. The Supreme Court on Tuesday...
07:57 AM, Dec 01, 2010
Bangalore: After defying BJP high command's summons, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa is likely to reach Delhi on Monday evening. Amid indications that he may be asked to step down in the wake of alleged land scams, Yeddyurappa defied party leadership's summons and instead went to Puttaparthi for Sai Baba's birthday celebrations. Interestingly, he is likely to come to Delhi on Monday evening on the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's...
07:10 AM, Nov 22, 2010
Despite being caught on the backfoot, the BJP has thrown its weight behind Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa and ruled out his resignation on the land scam issue. ...
08:58 AM, Nov 18, 2010
Bangalore: Despite being caught on the backfoot, the BJP has thrown its weight behind Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa and ruled out his resignation on the land scam issue saying it cannot be compared with the Adarsh scam. Reacting to CNN-IBN's expose on the Karnataka Chief Minister selling government land to his sons, the BJP said that the issue is not like the Adarsh scam. Over 2000 Documents exclusively accessed...
07:30 AM, Nov 18, 2010
How Ashok Chavan rose into prominence and finally became the first casualty of Adarsh society scam as he was asked to resign on Tuesday. ...
10:21 PM, Nov 09, 2010
London: Unhappy over his 4-month suspension from the House of Lords over parliamentary expenses claim, Lord Swraj Paul on Monday resigned from the position as its Deputy Speaker. Lord Paul, 79, along with two peers of Asian origin - Baroness Monzila Pola Uddin and Lord Amirali Alibhai Bhatia - had been suspended last month for varying periods over their claim of accommodation allowance given to MPs who reside outside London....
09:13 AM, Nov 02, 2010
HP said 53-year-old Hurd had a "close personal relationship" with a woman that was never disclosed to the board. ...
11:03 AM, Aug 07, 2010
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A minister close to 10 Janpath told me: "Being a Congressman is all about sweat and no equity". Shashi Tharoor must have realised this, after ...
09:50 PM, Apr 21, 2010
Sources say his hand was forced as Tharoor's resignation was the only way to break the parliamentary logjam. ...
02:10 PM, Apr 19, 2010
Amar Singh said he would promote English and computer education. ...
04:50 PM, Jan 18, 2010
Ram Gopal Yadav had earlier openly condemned Amar Singh. ...
04:09 PM, Jan 12, 2010
He asked why his absence due to ill health is being termed a tantrum. ...
11:20 AM, Jan 11, 2010
Mulayam said it was nothing big if an office bearer resigned from party posts. ...
04:59 PM, Jan 07, 2010
Amar Singh has quit the Samajwadi Party on health grounds. ...
01:34 PM, Jan 06, 2010
