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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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 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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Did CAG Vinod Rai's inclusion of presumptive loss in an audit report never a precedent in any such audit reports? Did CAG Vinod Rai force a junior officer to sign on a report of the 2G loss of revenue, that pegged the loss at Rs 1.76 lakh crore rupees? RP Sing...
Voices are being heard against the CAG's estimate of losses suffered in government revenue from within the CAG. A former director general of the CAG RP Singh has alleged that before the report was prepared, the CAG officials used to go to the meetings of the P...
Former DG of Post and Telecom RP Singh claims he was forced to sign the controversial 2G report. He also says there were several visits made to BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi over the CAG report, suggesting the report was influenced by Joshi.
Achil Vandhavai | Finance Minister P Chidambaram courts controversy by stating that the loss figures estimated by the CAG are mythical and were just another fancy number. Is he justified in saying so? Also discussed, the death of Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackera...
Finance Minister P Chidambaram courts controversy by stating that the loss figures estimated by the CAG are mythical and were just another fancy number. He also said that just like the 2G loss figures, the coalgate figure will also disappear soon. The Oppositi...
Kapil Sibal, P Chidambaram and Manish Tiwari during a press conference slams CAG for estimating a Rs 1.76 lakh crore loss to the exchequer for spectrum allocation at rates fixed in 2001. The leaders demanded that the CAG overhaul its method of calculations.
BJP leader Arun Jaitely expresses disappointment over the 2G spectrum allocation auction's failure. He says that the government should have introspected instead of putting pressure on the nation's economy. He also added that the government has mismanaged the t...
Achil Vandhavai | The government plans to raise Rs 45,000 crore through the fresh 2G spectrum auctions that will take place today. The fresh auction following the Supreme Court decision to deem the 2008 allocations as 'unconstitutional'. Will the high base pri...
The JPC meet on the 2G spectrum case has proved inconclusive. In the stormy JPC meet, the Left parties as well as the right-wing opposition took a strong stand against the Congress. The two groups of politicians in the JPC have demanded that the Prime Minister...
The BJP top brass, after boycotting the last two JPC meetings, have now decided to participate in the Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the 2G spectrum case. The BJP, which has six members in the panel had boycotted the last two meetings demanding that ...
After boycotting the JPC meet on the 2G probe two consecutive times, the BJP is likely to be present at today's Joint Parliamentary Committee meet. The BJP, which has six members in the panel had boycotted the last two meetings demanding that P Chidambaram and...
The BJP is likely to end its boycott of the Joint Parliamentary Committee, which is currently probing the 2G scam. The JPC is meeting to look into allocation and pricing of the 2G spectrum. The JPC Chairman has stuck to his stand that Prime Minister Manmohan S...
Former Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrasekhar who was deposed before the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the 2G spectrum scam has said that the entry fee could have been increased to 35,000 crores.
The Supreme Court will deliver its opinion on the presidential reference by the Centre on whether auctioning of natural resources across all sectors is mandatory in line with its 2G spectrum ruling. A five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice SH Ka...
The Supreme Court will deliver its opinion on the presidential reference by the Centre on whether auctioning of natural resources across all sectors is mandatory in line with its 2G spectrum ruling. A five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice SH Ka...
The Supreme Court will deliver its opinion on the presidential reference by the Centre on whether auctioning of natural resources across all sectors is mandatory in line with its 2G spectrum ruling. A five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice SH Ka...
After their demand for a list of witnesses to be called was rejected by Congress leader PC Chacko, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members walked out of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) meeting on the 2G spectrum scam for the second time.
In a recent meeting, BJP leader Arun Jaitley said the UPA government's credibility has hit rock bottom. He listed numerous scams from cash for votes to the corruption in the organisation of the Commonwealth Games and called the recent coal scam as the biggest ...
Former Telecom Minister A Raja will start cross-examining a key prosecution witness, AK Srivastava, the former deputy director general of the Department of Telecom, in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case.
BJP chief spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad attacks Prime Minister Manmohan Singh directly at a press conference and questions him about the series of scams that have taken place since his Government came into power. He says the BJP can demand the PM's account...
The Supreme Court is set to consider extending the deadlines for the fresh 2G auctions. The apex court will extend the deadline if the telecom secretary submits a written undertaking to this affect. Supreme Court says that the government must assure that the o...
If you want to know what exactly is the role of P Chidambaram in the 2G scam, then listen to Subramanian Swamy. Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy is a fighter and here he explains why as then finance minister P Chidambaram is also guilty for the 2G spectru...
The CAG report states that scam in allotment of coal blocks between 2005 and 2009 is worth over Rs 1.86 crores. And this is bigger than the 2G spectrum scam. And the man who was in charge of coal ministry then was the Prime Minister himself. The CAG report tab...
The Centre seeks time for another 40 days to complete the 2G spectrum auction process and give away licenses. The Centre has filed an application in the Supreme Court seeking time until November.
The Supreme Court will hear the Presidential Reference moved by the Government on issues arising out of the 2G spectrum judgement. The Court will rule on crucial decisions such as whether the auctioning of natural resources across all sectors will be made mand...
Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has resigned as the Chairman of the Telecom Empowered Group of Ministers. The Union Minister wrote to the Prime Minister asking to recuse himself because he didn't want to be targeted in controversies surrounding the 2G spectr...
Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has quit as the head of the EGoM. The Prime Minister accepted Pawar's resignation after receiving a letter from the Union Minister claiming that he was 'overworked'. In his letter to the Prime Minister, Sharad Pawar has ...
Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar writes to the Prime Minister, seeking to step down as the Telecom Empowered Group of Ministers. Allegations have been made in the past that Sharad Pawar had connections to those accused in the 2G scam. With close associates su...
Opposition including CPI question the manner in which the investigation in the 2G scam has been conducted. These reactions come after the CBI hits a dead end in the money trail investigation to Switzerland, in the 2G spectrum allocation scam. The CBI claims th...
In what seems like a major blow to India's fight against corruption, the CBI hits a dead end in the money trail investigation to Switzerland, in the 2G spectrum allocation scam. The CBI claims that the Swiss authorities are not cooperating and that the agency ...
In what appears as a major twist in the 2G scam, CBI confirms that the probe into Swiss money trail, which is even bigger than the Kaligner TV money trail, has hit a dead end. The investigating agency claims that the Swiss authorities are unwilling to support ...
The CBI opposes the bail plea of former Telecom Minister A Raja, saying he might influence the trial and witnesses who are yet to depose before the court.
The Government seems to be seeking more clarity on the 2G scam with the Cabinet approving a 2G Presidential reference seeking the Supreme Court's view on key questions.