Chandigarh: With BJP dubbing the draft JPC report on 2G spectrum scam as a "cover-up" attempt to save the government, Union Minister Manish Tewari on Saturday said the party is unnecessarily raking up the issue as a debate could be held on the report when it is presented in Parliament. "The draft JPC report has been sent to members. Thereafter, the JPC will have a meeting and members can place...
02:00 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Mumbai: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday filed a case against 36 police officials who had been suspended earlier following a sting that caught 15 Kurla constables accepting bribes to allow illegal constructions in the area. The case was registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The Maharashtra government also suspended a senior police officer in connection with the sting. Action against the officer is being taken by the police...
07:37 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government on Thursday suspended a senior police officer in connection with the sting operation that showed 15 policemen in Kurla taking bribes to allow illegal construction in the area. The total number of suspended policemen is now 37. Thirty six constables were suspended earlier in the day. The expose came barely a week after an illegal building collapsed in Thane killing more than 70 people. Maharashtra Home...
07:08 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Mumbai: A sting operation by a social activist in Mumbai has revealed the nexus between police and illegal construction mafia. The sting, shot at a refugee camp in Kurla, showed around 15 policemen taking bribes to allow illegal construction to flourish in the area. The Mumbai Police has now initiated an enquiry. The sting comes just days after the worst building collapse in Maharashtra in a decade. The illegal seven-storey...
07:58 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Ruling out the possibility of formation of a third front, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Murli Manohar Joshi on Friday said such a coalition has no future. "Opportunist coalition or manipulation of power cannot solve any of the problems existing in the country," Joshi said. ...
05:31 PM, Mar 29, 2013
Government has blocked a total of 254 URLs (web addresses) or uniform resource locators in 2013, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. Of the total URLs blocked, 60 URLs were of sites hosting videos of the film Innocence of Muslims and 194 URLs were blocked in compliance of court orders, Minister of State for Communication and IT Milind Deora said in a written reply to Lok Sabha. ...
07:21 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader MM Joshi has hit out at the Congress for appointing former Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) director Ashwani Kumar as Nagaland Governor. He said that this was an unhealthy nexus. ...
08:01 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Senior BJP leader MM Joshi has hit out at the Congress for appointing former CBI director Ashwini Kumar as Nagaland governor. He said that this was an unhealthy nexus. ...
02:47 PM, Mar 11, 2013
The "western outlook" about women was a reason for rape and the concept that women were inferior to men was repugnant' to Indian philosophy, BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi on Friday said. "The difference between western concept and Indian concept is that one considers them (women) the weaker sex and we consider them the mother sex," he said. ...
10:17 AM, Mar 09, 2013
Veteran Congress leader and former Nagaland chief minister Senayangba Chubatoshi Jamir is to be appointed governor of Odisha, an official said on Friday. ...
06:29 AM, Mar 09, 2013
He is jailed for violating the terms of a restraining order brought against him by his estranged wife, Rachael. ...
07:05 PM, Mar 06, 2013
Earlier, media reports quoted Gourlay as saying talks were "ongoing" over a new deal between the midfielder and the club. ...
08:14 PM, Mar 05, 2013
The court order had asked Director General of Indian Computer Emergency Response Team to block 78 web pages including that of University Grant Commission (UGC). ...
06:51 AM, Feb 28, 2013
The government will appeal against Gwalior district court order asking it to block website pages on internet publishing defamatory material about Arindam Chaudhuri-led IIPM institute. ...
05:28 PM, Feb 19, 2013
The Department of Telecom, under a court order, recently ordered blocking of 78 URLs, 73 of which contained content apparently critical of the controversial IIPM. ...
08:35 PM, Feb 18, 2013
The Department of Telecom, under a court order, recently ordered blocking of 78 URLs, 73 of which contained content apparently critical of the controversial Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) and its head Arindam Chaudhuri, including a University Grants Commission notice on the unrecognised status of IIPM. The URLs blocked included many from mainstream news organisations such as Firstpost, Outlook, Times of India, Rediff, Indian Express and Economic Times,...
04:46 PM, Feb 18, 2013
Expressing concern over the recent incidents of violence in the state, senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi on Saturday said the Trinamool Congress government should learn from the mistakes of the previous Left Front regime. ...
02:58 AM, Feb 17, 2013
Contending that the Congress raised the pitch about "saffron terror" and "Hindu terror" to divert attention from its failures and corruption, the BJP on Saturday charged Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and other party leaders with having insulted the national flag. ...
02:21 AM, Feb 17, 2013
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Murli Manohar Joshi on Saturday said his party would raise the saffron terror remark of Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in Parliament and demand an apology from ministers and MPs who used it. ...
07:58 PM, Feb 16, 2013
