New Delhi: Five cases were on Sunday registered against unknown persons for rioting and violating prohibitory orders in connection with the protest of India Against Corruption during which around 1,000 people were detained, including activists Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan. Twenty-one people, including 15 policemen, were injured when security personnel used force and water cannons and lobbed teargas shells to disperse the crowd which was marching to the residences of...
10:34 PM, Aug 26, 2012
New Delhi: Team Anna supporters on Sunday marched to India Gate from their protest venue at Jantar Mantar here in support of Anna Hazare's indefinite fast for a strong Lokpal Bill. Waving tricolor and shouting slogans, protesters led by Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan, marched this evening from Jantar Mantar, where Hazare and his close aides were on fast, to the war memorial. "It is a fight to save the...
07:37 PM, Jul 29, 2012
Kochi: Demanding that selection of judges be made in a "rational and transparent" manner, key Team Anna member and noted lawyer Prashant Bhushan on Sunday sought comprehensive reforms in judicial, civil and police administration. "No disciplinary proceedings can be launched against apex court and High court judges. No FIR can be registered against them," he said at a function here. Judiciary was "not accountable" to a majority of people, and...
11:43 PM, Jul 08, 2012
New Delhi: A petition has been filed in the Delhi High Court for an interim stay on the release of forthcoming Bollywood film 'Shanghai' until its controversial song 'Bharat Mata ki jai' is removed from the film. Tejinder Bagga of Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena, has filed the petition, "We have problems with the words used in the song. Sone ki chidiya, dengue, malaria, gud bhi hai, gobar bhi, Bharat Mata...
07:14 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Reacting to the attack by the PM on Team Anna, Prashant Bhushan said that Singh should accept the offer of a SIT probe. ...
10:32 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: "I will give up my public life if allegations are proven against me", the Prime Minister told reporters on his way back from Myanmar. Dr Manmohan Singh was reacting to team Anna's allegations of corruption against him in allocation of coal blocks between 2006 and 2009. The Prime Minister also said that Team Anna's allegations of corruption against other ministers are irresponsible and unfortunate. Team Anna, on Saturday,...
10:18 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday hit out at Team Anna saying the corruption allegations against him and other ministers were irresponsible and unfortunate. The Prime Minister further said that he would give up his public life if the allegations made by Team Anna were proved. Talking to reporters on his way back from Myanmar, the Prime Minister said, "I will give up my public life if allegations...
08:35 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: Eminent Team Anna member Justice Santosh Hegde on Tuesday distanced himself from the comment against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by team member and senior Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Justice Hegde said that the comment against the Prime Minister was unwarranted. He further said that he was unaware about the proof Team Anna had. The comments from the former Karnataka Lokayukta came hours after Prashant...
05:21 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: Further cracks have appeared in Team Anna with one of its prominent members, who designed the social media campaign for the protests, shooting off a letter to Arvind Kejriwal questioning the way in which the anti-corruption movement has been led. The letter by Shivendra Singh Chauhan came after a meeting at lawyer Prashant Bhushan's residence last week over the issue of managing India Against Corruption's Facebook page. Kejriwal...
10:55 PM, May 24, 2012
Bhubaneswar: The Chhattisgarh government on Tuesday announced the names of the new mediators to negotiate with the Naxals who have abducted Sukma collector Alex Paul Menon. The government named S K Mishra, former chief secretary of Chhattisgarh and Nirmala Buch, former chief secretary of Madhya Pradesh, as the mediators. This came after eminent lawyer Prashant Bhushan and Adivasi Mahasabha president Manish Kunjam, who were earlier named as mediators, refused to...
12:31 PM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: A day after the Naxals named three mediators to secure the safe release of abducted Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon, two of them " eminent lawyer Prashant Bhushan and Adivasi Mahasabha president Manish Kunjam " refused to get involved. Bhushan on Tuesday morning ruled out being a part of the mediation, saying kidnapping a civilian officer and negotiating on that basis was wrong. He said, "I'm not going...
11:43 AM, Apr 24, 2012
Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan on Tuesday refused to mediate the release of abducted IAS officer with the Naxals. ...
10:04 AM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday began hearing the plea for investigating the alleged role of Home Minister P Chidambaram in the 2G spectrum scam with an NGO claiming that he was in the know of all developments relating to fixation of price for allocation of radio waves. The bench of justices GS Singhvi and S Radhakrishana, which was reconstituted after the retirement of Justice AK Ganguly, took up...
06:34 PM, Apr 04, 2012
Adelaide: West Indies batting legend Brian Lara believes Sachin Tendulkar will get his much-awaited 100th international century in the fourth Test against Australia at the Adelaide Oval. In an e-mail interaction, Lara said: Its been a disappointing series, but the...
05:46 PM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: Team Anna on Friday released a campaign pamphlet for the upcoming assembly polls in which it attacked the Congress accusing it of betraying the country on Lokpal issue even as the activists claimed that they would not seek votes for or against any single party. The four page pamphlet titled 'Your Vote can Change the History of India " Betrayal by Central Government on the Country' also targeted...
10:48 PM, Jan 20, 2012
