New Delhi: Authorities have conducted "inspection" at the premises of an NGO of erstwhile Team Anna member Manish Sisodia to check documents related to foreign donations received by it, drawing flak from his associates who described it as a "witch hunt". The inspection was conducted at the office of NGO Kabir in east Delhi's Pandav Nagar on Tuesday and Wednesday. According to Sisodia, a team from the Home Ministry examined...
05:03 PM, Aug 22, 2012
New Delhi: Team Anna member Manish Sisodia on Friday said it would be premature to form a political party and that the public will decide the path of the movement from the streets to Parliament. "Right now it's premature to say about forming a political party. We will have to give a political alternative and it will come out from the public. The public will decide how the movement, which...
02:04 PM, Aug 03, 2012
Mumbai: The pressure on Anna Hazare is growing to call off his protest fast but Editor-in-Chief of IBN Lokmat Nikhil Wagle, who met the anti-corruption activist in Mumbai, on Wednesday says people like Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi and Manish Sisodia are putting pressure on Anna to continue with his fast. He says these people don't know him well and want him to continue with his fast despite his deteriorating health....
02:31 PM, Dec 28, 2011
Mumbai: Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray has appealed Anna Hazare to end his fast, suggesting the social activist that his team members could fast instead and continue the anti-corruption agitation. "Please end the fast, considering your deteriorating health. Let Kejriwal, Bedi, Sisodiya fast instead and continue the stir," Thackeray said in a letter to Hazare. Sena Executive President Uddhav Thackeray told reporters in Mumbai on Wednesday that the letter also...
04:06 PM, Aug 24, 2011
New Delhi: Anna Hazare, whose fast entered the ninth day on Wednesday, refused to be put on a intravenous drip despite doctors advising him to do so once again on Wednesday morning, his close associate said. "Anna has refused to take the IV drip after doctors advised him to take it following a check up this morning," activist Manish Sisodia told reporters in New Delhi. He has lost another 200...
08:59 AM, Aug 24, 2011
New Delhi: The health of anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare, who is fasting for the past nine days demanding a strong Lokpal is alright, one of his close aides said on Wednesday. "He is alright at present. He is taking rest. A team of doctors is continuously monitoring him," Manish Sisodia, a close associate of Hazare told reporters. Hazare has lost 5.6 kg since he began his fast on August 16...
07:24 AM, Aug 24, 2011
New Delhi: Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare spent the night in Tihar Jail on Tuesday despite being freed by the authorities. He says he won't leave if conditions against his fast at Jai Prakash Narain Park aren't removed. With Anna inside, his supporters congregated outside the Tihar jail, spending the night singing and dancing. The 73-year-old Hazare, who is continuing his fast, is understood to have spent the night at one...
07:08 AM, Aug 17, 2011
New Delhi: Social activist Anna Hazare was arrested by the Delhi Police ahead of his proposed fast against corruption on Tuesday. Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi, Shanti Bhushan and Manish Sisodia have also been put under preventive arrest by the Delhi police. Hazare has been arrested under Section 107/51. He will now have to appear before a magistrate to get bail. Hazare and his supporters were taken into custody before he...
07:39 AM, Aug 16, 2011
