BJP leader Ram Jethmalani gatecrashed the parliamentary party meet in Delhi and attacked the party's top leadership for not putting up a proper fight against the government. This incident has left the top leaders of the party red-faced and they are now contemp...
The Lok Sabha extended the term of the 2G JPC till the monsoon session. This means that the time for submission of the report of the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) looking into 2G spectrum allocation has also been extended. The resolution was passed in Pa...
Sources reveal that the House could be adjourned Sine Die tomorrow or day after. They further reveal that the government will be bringing in ordinance on the Food Security Bill. The Opposition claims that it wants a proper debate on the Bill in the Parliament ...
The 2G-JPC term is likely to be extended. The Speaker will be moving a motion at 2PM. The JPC meeting for tomorrow has been cancelled. CBI director Ranjit Sinha has tendered an unconditional apology before the apex court for misleading the court in connection ...
The 2G-JPC term is likely to be extended. The Speaker will be moving a motion at 2PM. The JPC meeting for tomorrow has been cancelled. CBI director Ranjit Sinha has tendered an unconditional apology before the apex court for misleading the court in connection ...
The UPA is facing it's biggest credibility crisis and the government has decided to stand by both its ministers -- law minister Ashwini Kumar and railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal. Senior Congress leaders feel that the resignations will give a political win ...
The Opposition is gearing up to corner the UPA government in the Parliament. It should be interesting to find out what the Congress' strategy would be to counter the Opposition's unrelenting attack.
CBI chief Ranjit Sinha says 'my hands are tied' after the scathing reaction from the Supreme Court on the 2G spectrum allocation issue. In conversation with Mail Today, he says that the CBI is dependent on the government for everything. He aggressively asserts...
Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar has outrightly rejected the Opposition demand to remove PC Chacko as the Chairperson of the Joint Parliamentary Committee, probing the 2G scam. She has cited the absence of provisions in any rules. Fifteen members of the JPC had w...
Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj says that the current government is the most corrupt. She said that the BJP is forced to disrupt the Parliament over massive issues of corruption. She attacked the government's controversy surrounding CBI's C...
Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj says that the current government is the most corrupt. She said that the BJP is forced to disrupt the Parliament over massive issues of corruption. She attacked the government's controversy surrounding CBI's C...
Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj slams the government and holds it responsible for a string of corruption cases, "each bigger than the other". She contended that if the 15th Lok Sabha had gained the dubious distinction of being the worst...
The Opposition, which has been relentlessly attacking the government in Parliament over coal block allocation scam, 2G scam, Sarabjit Singh issue and China's incursion, is likely to continue cornering the government in the days ahead. The Budget Session, thus,...
Newshour | An unexpected fight breaks out between top government law officers. Additional Solicitor General Harin Raval has written to Attorney General GE Vahanvati, accusing him of trying to shape not just the coal block allocation scam but also the other cas...
Newshour | An unexpected fight breaks out between top government law officers. Additional Solicitor General Harin Raval has written to Attorney General GE Vahanvati, accusing him of trying to shape not just the coal block allocation scam but also the other cas...
Sources claim that the BJP will stage a walkout in the Parliament tomorrow, when the finance bill is tabled. Sources further claim that BJP leader Sushma Swaraj will make a short speech at around 12:15 tomorrow, after which she will be leading the charge for t...
BJP leader Prakash Javadekar says that the BJP will continue protesting against the coal and 2G scams in both the Houses. Sources claim that party leader Sushma Swaraj will be leading the charge in the Parliament tomorrow, after her speech.
BJP leader Prakash Javadekar says that the BJP will let the Finance Bill pass, but continue protesting against the coal scam and the 2G scam in both the Houses. Sources claim that party leader Sushma Swaraj will be leading the charge in the Parliament tomorrow...
Congress general secretary Janardhan Dwivedi slams the Opposition saying that the BJP and other parties are stalling the session of the Parliament, but are blaming the government. Parliamentary affairs minister Kamal Nath asks the Opposition to let the Parliam...
Both houses of the Parliament were disrupted following uproar over coal block allocation scam and 2G scam. The Opposition kept the heat on the government, calling for PM's resignation. However, there seems to be consensus on the Finance bill, which will be tak...
CBI director Ranjit Sinha has admitted that law minister Ashwini Kumar had wanted to see the draft report of the coal scam. Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley has hit out at the government by asking them to answer key questions that were pos...
A Congress core group meet has been scheduled for today at 6PM over the CBI affidavit in the Supreme Court. The meeting will be chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at his residence. Earlier today, CBI director Ranjit Sinha had admitted that law minister A...
In the backdrop of the leak of the draft report of the coal scam, government sources reveal that law minister Ashwini Kumar will be asked to resign if the Supreme Court says that 'there was impropriety', however, there is no question of the Prime Minister's re...
Removing the chairman of the JPC is like saying remove the judge when you are not happy with the judgement, says Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath. He says that the Opposition is being unreasonable in their demands to remove PC Chacko as the head of th...
The Opposition members will meet the Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar to demand the removal of JPC head PC Chacko, due to his alleged 'mismanagement' of the 2G probe. The members were irked with the leak of the draft report to the media and the inclusion of Atal ...
The Opposition members will meet the Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar to demand the removal of JPC head PC Chacko, due to his alleged 'mismanagement' of the 2G probe. The members were irked with the leak of the draft report to the media and the inclusion of Atal ...
While PJ Kurien tries his best to get the Rajya Sabha's functioning back in order, Opposition refuses to calm down. The BJP leaders protest in the well of the House and shout slogans against the JPC report on 2G scam.
The BJP plans to continue its protest in both the Houses of the Parliament until the draft report on the 2G spectrum scam has been withdrawn completely. A JPC meet later today might even adopt the report, which the BJP does not want.
JPC chief PC Chacko says that he is ready to face any questions regarding the 2G spectrum report. He also says that it was unfortunate that the contents of the report were leaked to the media, but is ready to face a breach of privilege motion as he is in the c...
News Night | Why hasn't the Prime Minister come out and given point by point rebuttals to the claims made by 2G scam-accused A Raja? Why has he not stood up in Parliament and proffered a defence of his own role in the Coalgate scam? Congress leader Manishankar...
The Opposition disrupt proceedings in both the Houses of Parliament. The Opposition is questioning the government over the 2G scam report and the coalgate scandal. The Houses have been adjourned due to the protest in the well of the House.
BJP is all set to take on the government in both Houses of the Parliament. BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj and Murli Manohar Joshi said that they would protest in the well of the House. BJP has accused the UPA government of tampering with the 2G report as well as th...
The BJP demands Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's resignation in connection with the JPC report on 2G scam saying there is no question of the PM getting a clean chit in the multi-crore scam.
Achil Vandhavai | Opposition is up in arms against the media leak of the JPC report on the 2G scam. Will BJP allow the Parliament to function peacefully? Also discussed, the fishermen abuse by Sri Lankan Navy and the Katchatheevu row.
Angry over the leak of the JPC report, on the 2G spectrum allocation scam, to the media, the BJP has given a notice to move a breach of privilege motion in both Houses. BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad gave the notice in the Rajya Sabha and said that the leak sh...
Former Telecom Minister A Raja may not have got a chance to depose before the JPC in connection with the 2G spectrum scam. Nonetheless, he has challenged the findings of the JPC, with a point-by-point rebuttal of the report. This move from Raja comes even as t...
The channel accesses A Raja's 100-page written submission to the JPC examining the 2G spectrum allocation. He says policy was not altered to benefit any applicant and that CBI or ED probe could not identify any bribe received by him. He adds that he wouldn't h...
BJP files breach of privilege motion against PC Chacko, chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee examining the 2G spectrum allocation, in both houses of the Parliament alleging that he had leaked the panel's draft report to the media.
Senior Opposition leader Sushma Swaraj has lashed out at the government, accusing it of being inactive. She says that the government has not been honest with their intentions, whether it is about the 2G spectrum allocation, coalgate scam or the justice for the...
Vice-President Hamid Ansari sought to calm RS members as the Opposition tried to corner the government over the JPC report on 2G scam and the coalgate issue.
The Parliament, which reconvenes today, is likely to witness dramatic scenes as the NDA and the Left are planning to corner the government over the issues of JPC draft on 2G which exonerated Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram and ...
BJP has questioned the JPC report on 2G scam which gave clean chit to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram and has asked all the NDA allies to reject the report. The NDA has decided to oppose the JPC draft when it comes up in Parlia...
Responding to the clean chit given to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram by the JPC in the 2G scam, A Raja says he did everything in consultation with the Prime Minister and he will send a 200-page report to the JPC on Monday to ...
PC Chacko, head of JPC, refuses to answer questions on the JPC report on the 2G scam. BJP has called this report a Congress report. The report had given a clean chit to the Prime Minister and the Home Minister in the 2G scam.
BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad reacts after the JPC probing the 2G spectrum allocation scam submits its draft report. He says that the draft report is not the final report and leaking it to the media is a 'gross breach of parliamentary norms'. The report...
The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probing the 2G spectrum allocation scam might have tabled its draft report, but when it comes to voting it faces a huge litmus test. The 30-member committee has only 12 from the UPA. Atleast 14 are expected to vote again...
The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probing the 2G spectrum allocation scam gives Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram a clean chit. The JPC rubbishing the Rs 1.76 crore loss calculation by the CAG, blamed A Raja of 'misleading'...
Following the withdrawal of Justice Vikramjit Sen from hearing the petitions by Bharti group chairman Sunil Mittal and Essar promoter Ravi Ruia, Justice AR Dave also follows. Now, this bench headed by the CJI has been forced to postpone the hearing.
The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probing the 2G spectrum allocation scam gives Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram a clean chit. The JPC rubbishing the Rs 1.76 crore loss calculation by the CAG, blamed A Raja of 'misleading'...
According to sources, the private jet carrying BJP leaders that developed a technical snag on Monday, belongs to a subsidiary company owned by 2G scam accused Shahid Balwa. Now, Aam Aadmi Party member Manish Sisodia has questioned BJP's double standards, for u...
A private jet carrying BJP chief Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley had made an emergency landing owing to technical glitches. Headlines Today has learnt that the plane that was charted by the BJP top brass was owned by a 2G scam accused Shahid Bal...
BJP leader Yashwant Sinha expresses disappointment over PM Manmohan Singh's refusal to depose before the JPC probing the 2G spectrum allocation scam. Sinha wrote to the PM saying it was difficult for the former to agree with the latter's claims that he did not...
Achil Vandhavai | The Prime Minister refuses to appear before the JPC investigating the 2G spectrum allocation scam. Also discussed, BJP's comments about separate eelam, West Bengal's student leader death and more.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's refusal to depose before the JPC, probing the 2G scam has angered senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha who had demanded the PM to do so. In his response to Sinha, the PM has stated that he has nothing to hide and that JPC has to dec...
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh refuses to appear before the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probing the 2G spectrum allocation scam. He says that all the statements and evidence has been submitted before the JPC and that there is no need for him to appear b...
JPC chief PC Chacko says Yashwant Sinha's letter to the Prime Minister is a political stunt and against the norms. He says the intentions of Sinha were clear, and the JPC chairman was not available for the BJP's political games.
Information and broadcasting minister Manish Tewari, reacting to Yashwant Sinha's demand that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should depose in front of the Joint Parliamentary Committee in the 2G spectrum allocation scam, says that it would be more appropriate i...
Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, questioning the functioning of JPC on the 2G Spectrum case and demanding that the PM himself should depose before the panel. Sinha has alleged that JPC is failing in its duty.
2G spectrum allocation scam accused A Raja now says that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was very much in the loop and that attorney general GE Vahanvati was lying. He also says that the then External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee was also kept in the loop. ...
Centrestage | Hours after Karunanidhi announced that his party is pulling out of the UPA and remained adamant about getting back, the Congress is now taking revenge by unleashing the Enforcement Directorate on 2G scam accused Kanimozhi and A Raja. The money la...
Despite being part of UPA alliance, DMK hardly shared a good rapport with the Congress. The troubles within the alliance and between the two parties intensified following the 2G scam. The party decided to stay on with the alliance even when the TMC deserted th...
Former Telecom Minister and 2G scam accused A Raja has written to Joint Parliamentary Committee chairman PC Chacko, reiterating his demand to depose before the JPC. He has claimed that the letter he received from Lok Sabha secretariat didn't even recognize his...
Janata Dal Leader Sharad Yadav in the Zero Hour said that governments make mistakes, but a good government is the one that realises its mistakes and rectifies it. He brought up the issues of the Italian marines case, the coal scam and the 2G scam, among others...
The government confirms that A Raja will not appear before the JPC, probing the 2G spectrum allocation scam, as a witness. However, A Raja's written submission will be taken as a part of the JPC report that will be circulated.
The BJP demands that 'key player' A Raja be summoned before the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), probing the 2G spectrum allocation scam, as a witness. Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha wrote to the panel chairman PC Chacko requesting him to call A Raja as ...
Eminent jurist KTS Tulsi is backing former Telecom Minister A Raja's plea, who wants to testify before the JPC on the 2G scam. He says that the hearing on the scam would be incomplete without listening to Raja's version. This puts a pressure on the Congress wh...
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam supports jailed leader A Raja in his decision to depose in front of the Joint Parliamentary Committee, probing the 2G spectrum allocation scam. The former telecom minister had written to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, as well as the J...
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) will soon file chargesheets against DMK leaders A Raja and Kanimozhi in the 2G spectrum allocation scam. The ED has been probing the matter closely for a while now and both of them have appeared for questioning several times. T...
Telecom companies that were unsuccessful in the recently conducted 2G spectrum allocation bidding process, should stop their service immediately, orders the Supreme Court. The court had extended the deadline several times, with the most recent being February 4...
The CBI removes AK Singh as the prosecution lawyer after the tapes with him advising the prime accused in the 2G scam, Sanjay Chandra, MD of Unitech, surfaced. AK Singh had been replaced by KK Goel as the new lawyer. Once the news of the tapes made their way t...
After an alleged collusion between the CBI prosecutor AK Singh and one of the accused in the 2G spectrum allocation scam came to light through an audio tape, the investigative agency has sent the tape to CSIL for forensic examination. On the tape, Singh is he...
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) removes one of its prosecutors for allegedly colluding with one of the accused in the 2G spectrum allocation case. The CBI transfers AK Singh for allegedly giving documents related to the case to Unitech managing direc...
CBI Director Ranjit Sinha and Telecom Secretary R Chandrashekhar will appear before the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) in connection with the 2G spectrum scam case today. The JPC is also expected to look into the revelations that a CBI prosecutor aided on...
The Joint Parliamentary Committee probing the 2G spectrum allocation scam, will not call P Chidambaram or any other Minister as witnesses, even after strong protests by the BJP. JPC chairman PC Chacko said that the investigation was nearing its close and that ...
A CBI special court will examine the charge-sheet in the allocation of additional spectrum during the NDA regime today. The charge-sheet has named three telecom firms as accused in the case in which the Department of Telecommunication had allegedly allocated t...
The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) investigating the 2G spectrum scam announced that the former CAG RP Singh will be summoned before the committee in the view of the recent allegations he has exposed. PC Chacko said that several statements he gave to the ...
RTI activist Subhash Chandra Agrawal has been honoured with SR Jindal Prize for 2012 under the category 'Crusade Against Corruption'. The award carries a cash reward of 25 lakhs. Agrawal, who till date has filed around 6000 PILs, has been instrumental in bring...
Frankly Speaking with Arnab Goswami | The new Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tiwari, who has spearheaded the UPA charge on many recent controversies including the 2G CAG report, and has been the face of the government on television. Here he speak...
To clear the air on the 2G scam report, Manish Tiwari demands a TV debate. The MoS for Information and Broadcast has been under a lot of flak for the comments he made. Sitaram Yechury of the Left party and Prakash Javadekar of the BJP have slammed the Minister...
First, the complete details of the phone conversation that PAC chairman and BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi had with a CAG official came out in the open. According to the documents, the leader asked for complete details of the CAG findings quoting pressure from...
MoS for Information and Broadcast, Manish Tiwari, questions BJP leader and PAC member Murli Manohar Joshi's association with the CAG officials. Tiwari demands to know why Joshi called junior CAG officials and kept in touch with them much before the report on 2...
Documents with the TV channel list the complete details of the phone conversation that PAC chairman and BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi had with a CAG official. According to the documents, the leader asked for complete details of the CAG findings quoting pressu...
DMK is likely to demand a debate on the revelations made by former CAG official RP Singh on the floor of the house. Slamming the CAG, party has said that the failure in the accounting system has caused great loss to the economy of the nation. The DMK is bent o...
Rubbishing the claims of former CAG official RP Singh on the 2G report, BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy questions the timing of his revelations. He says that Singh should have become a whistleblower when he was on duty but insted he chose to remain silent.
Newshour | Former Director General of CAG RP Singh stirs up a political storm after he admits that he was coerced into signing a report that had an inflated loss estimate on the 2G spectrum allocation scam. If RP Singh had objections, then why didn't he raise ...
Congress leader Digvijay Singh says that the government stands vindicated after former CAG official RP Singh's revelations on the 2G loss estimates. Digvijay also opines that a serious inquiry needs to be set up to investigate such blatant inflation of estimat...
Former Director General RP Singh has raked up quite a storm after revealing that the presumptive losses were exaggerated by the CAG Vinod Rai. Speaking on the issue, he says that he has no political agenda behind revealing these truths now, and that the media ...
Former CAG official RP Singh has revealed that the CAG prepared the audit report in utmost secrecy. He also said that the CBI had given certain papers to the CAG based on assurance that the CAG's findings would be shared with the agency. However, the CAG did n...
Former Director General in the CAG office RP Singh says he had expressed his reservations about the estimated loss in the 2G spectrum, but he obeyed his superior official CAG Vinod Rai. Rai increased the presumptive loss estimate from Rs 2600 crore to Rs 1.76 ...
BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi has questioned the timing of the revelations made by former CAG official RP Singh. Singh had earlier revealed that the figure of Rs 1.76 lakh crore loss due to 2G spectrum allocation was presumptive and was added by the CAG Vinod...
It is very uncharacteristic of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to comment on controversies and get involved in every debate. However, her resolute self betrayed her when she was asked about the recent revelations by a former CAG official on the 2G loss estimate. ...
BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi also the PAC chairman, alleges that the revelations of RP Singh are just a part of a conspiracy to malign the image of CAG. He questioned the timing of the revelation and said that it was only an attempt to muzzle the CAG. RP Sin...
BJP leader MM Joshi is accused of allegedly guiding the CAG in filing its report on the 2G spectrum allocation, which has pegged the losses due to arbitrary allotment at an astronomical Rs 1.76 lakh crore. Joshi, who heads the PAC probing the 2G scam, has deni...
Sonia Gandhi is jubilant. She says that the 'allegation-making' against the UPA based on the CAG report has proved to be costly to the BJP. Her happiness stems from the BJP now having to defend the CAG against whom a former CAG official RP Singh had leveled se...
Law Minister Ashwani Kumar says that the government has always been maintaining that such a huge loss estimate in the 2G spectrum allocation scam is just a figment of someone's imagination. Former DG of CAG RP Singh had earlier stated that his loss estimates w...
The Congress has successfully attempted in turning the media gaze from FDI in retail to the 2G scam loss revelations. Was this a part of the Congress plan? The Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath definitely does not think so. Listen to him talk about the...
The Lok Sabha was adjourned today, and for a change it was the Congress that created a ruckus over the inflation in losses in the 2g spectrum allocation allegedly made by the CAG Vinod Rai. The commotion was the result of disclosure by a former director genera...
Former Director General of CAG RP Singh has opened a can of worms and the entire political spectrum is brimming with activity. While the Congress has opined that a serious inquiry needs to be in place, the BJP has questioned the timing of the revelation. In th...