New Delhi: Former BJP president Bangaru Laxman spent his first night in jail on Friday. The Supreme Court convicted Bangaru for taking a Rs one lakh bribe to push a defence deal in a sting operation 11 years ago. The court in its 155-page judgement on Thursday said Laxman received money to "influence the public servants". Bangaru's sentencing will be announced later on Saturday. "The accused Bangaru Laxman on January...
06:13 AM, Apr 28, 2012
President Pratibha Patil decided to give up her proposed post-retirement accommodation in Pune on Friday. This came after allegations that the President's bungalow was being built on defence land in violation of norms. ...
09:30 PM, Apr 27, 2012
New Delhi: Eleven years after it broke, the Tehelka sting operation has returned to haunt the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). A court on Friday convicted former party president Bangaru Laxman who was caught on camera taking Rs 1 lakh bribe. As the BJP distanced itself from him, the Congress was quick to point fingers. Bangaru Laxman has been convicted in the 2001 fictitious arms deal case under the Prevention of...
08:58 PM, Apr 27, 2012
New Delhi: When Bangaru Laxman was the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president, he was caught on camera allegedly taking bribe from fake arms dealers for facilitating a fictitious defence deal case. Bangaru was caught on camera accepting money in a 2001 sting operation conducted by newsportal Tehelka.com. The video CDs, which were released by the portal on March 13, 2001, had sparked a political storm following which Bangaru resigned as...
01:58 PM, Apr 27, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court will pronounce its verdict on the 11-year-old Tehelka sting operation on Friday. The court will decide whether former BJP President Bangaru Laxman is guilty under the Prevention of Corruption Act for accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh from two Tehelka reporters who were posing as middlemen, pitching a defence deal. He was forced to step down as BJP President following the sensational expose. Bangaru's...
06:56 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Mumbai: US-based Turner Broadcasting System Inc, a Time Warner company, has decided to shut its Hindi general entertainment channel 'Imagine TV' in India as poor ratings hampered any further investment in it, a senior company official said. Turner had bought a majority stake in the channel from Indian broadcaster NDTV in 2009 for $117 million. The channel's India and international feed 'Imagine Dil Se', which will be shut with effect...
04:07 PM, Apr 12, 2012
New Delhi: After fake pilots, another serious air safety issue stands exposed. CNN-IBN has accessed a report by the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) that shows how oil companies have been flouting its regulations on Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) testing for close to a decade. The DGCA report said that it found that the oil companies had reduced the testing time for fuel purity from two minutes to one....
06:12 PM, Apr 03, 2012
London: Marussia gave their new Formula One car its track debut at Silverstone on Monday despite it still having to overcome a final crash test hurdle before the opening race of the season in Australia next week. The Russian-licensed former Virgin Racing team said in a statement that the Cosworth-powered MR01 had been rolled out for the first of two limited-mileage promotional events on demonstration tyres. The season starts in...
08:13 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Barcelona: Mark Webber completed his last day of pre-season Formula One testing in Barcelona on Saturday with champions Red Bull handing him an upgraded car to try out before his home Australian Grand Prix on March 18. With rivals suspecting Red Bull were keeping their powder dry for Melbourne, the Australian was eighth fastest of 10 drivers on track and played down the importance of the new chassis and changes...
05:32 PM, Mar 04, 2012
Barcelona: Sergio Perez of Sauber set the pace on the second-to-last day of testing before the new Formula One season gets under way. The Mexican driver steered his way to a fastest lap of 1 minute, 22.094 seconds at the Catalunya Circuit before rain showers slowed down the Saturday afternoon session. "I am very happy with how my final test day went," Perez said. "We did an intensive programme with...
12:21 AM, Mar 04, 2012
New Delhi: Narain Karthikeyan will have to wait till the Formula One season opener in Melbourne to get his hands on HRT's new car, with the Spanish outfit failing to get the F112 ready in time for the final two days of pre-season testing on Saturday and Sunday. Karthikeyan, who signed with HRT for the second year running, has not driven since the Indian Grand Prix in October. The first...
07:50 PM, Mar 03, 2012
Barcelona: Sahara Force India were done in by a "driveline issue" as the team completed just 36 laps on the second day of the Formula One pre-season testing here. Nico Hulkenberg got behind the wheels for the outfit, recording a fastest lap time of 1:23.893. "The day started well with some set-up work and new tyres runs, but we had some downtime in the afternoon, which limited my mileage. It's...
11:04 AM, Mar 03, 2012
Barcelona: Lotus extended their strong pre-season run with Romain Grosjean quickest in Formula One (F1) testing for the second consecutive session on Friday. Grosjean guided the former Renault car around the Catalunya Circuit in 1 minute, 22.614 seconds, with the Frenchman's lap at the close leaving him half a second faster than Toro Rosso's Jean-Eric Vergne. Defending F1 champion Sebastian Vettel was third for Red Bull ahead of Fernando Alonso...
11:20 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Barcelona: Romain Grosjean marked Lotus' return to the track with the fastest time on Thursday on the opening day of the final testing session before the new Formula One season starts. After fixing a chassis problem that forced Lotus to pull out of last week's practice, also at Catalunya Circuit, the French driver waited until near the end of the afternoon session to clock a day's best lap of 1...
09:06 AM, Mar 02, 2012
London: Kimi Raikkonen's Lotus team will take part in Formula One's final pre-season test in Barcelona from Thursday after resolving the chassis problems that sidelined them last week. The former Renault team, who had to pull out of last week's test, said on Wednesday they were confident there would be no recurrence after re-designing and trying out new suspension parts at the factory in England. Technical director James Allison said...
01:14 PM, Mar 01, 2012
London: Marussia will miss Formula One's final pre-season test in Barcelona this week because their new car has failed a mandatory crash test, the Russian-licensed team said on Monday. Marussia, formerly Virgin Racing, said the MR01 car had failed the final test after passing 17 previous ones. Under new rules introduced this season, cars must have passed all 18 tests before they are allowed to run in the pre-season sessions....
11:28 AM, Feb 28, 2012
New Delhi: Upset over the coverage of the attack on an Israeli diplomat's car, Delhi Police have complained to News Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA) asking it to restrain TV channels from telecasting "unverified and unconfirmed" information. Though no specific news item was mentioned, police claimed that time and again reporters of electronic media have been requested not to broadcast any unverified or unconfirmed report in cases related to terror-related incidents....
10:48 AM, Feb 26, 2012
Barcelona: Venezuelan driver Pastor Maldonado was the fastest at a Formula One testing session on Thursday. The Williams driver's lap time of 1 minute, 22.391 seconds at Catalunya Circuit was nearly a second quicker than Michael Schumacher for Mercedes. Sauber driver Kamui Kobayashi was third with Jenson Button of McLaren and Toro Rosso's Jean-Eric Vergne rounding out the top five on the next-to-last day of the pre-season's penultimate session. Red...
10:26 AM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: Taking to social media like Twitter and Facebook in a big way, the Information and Broadcasting ministry posted minute-by-minute accounts of a seminar on Community Radio on five websites simultaneously. As the Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni spoke to the gathering, a tweet flashed on microblogging site Twitter - "Radio is MoIB's flagship programme says Ambika Soni, Union Minster, Minister of Information and Broadcasting." "Lack of financial...
10:49 AM, Feb 19, 2012
