Newshour | Can the CBI justify allowing the government to alter a report on the massive Coalgate scam? Is the blame to be equally shared between the CBI and the government on the Coalgate cover-up? Arun Jaitley, the leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha,...
External affairs minister Salman Khurshid has briefed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the Sarabjit Singh's case. A decision is taking place as to which Indian officials will accompany the body back to Pakistan. Sarabjit's body will be brought back to India ...
BJP corners Congress-led UPA government in Parliament over several issues, prominent of them being the murder of Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan. Ripping into the government, leader of Opposition Arun Jaitley says that the government has fa...
The BCCI is likely to ban former IPL chairman Lalit Modi. BCCI's disciplinary committee will be recommending a life ban for him. The IPL disciplinary committee meeting has started in New Delhi, where Arun Jaitley and Jyotiraditya Scindia are some of the dignit...
Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley has hit out at the government by asking them to answer key questions that were posed on the coal scam status report. He also presses for the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and law minister Ash...
Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley has hit out at the government by asking them to answer key questions that were posed on the status report. He also presses for the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and law minister Ashiwini Kuma...
Newshour | A massive political fight has broken out between the BJP and JD(U), parties which have been in alliance for the past 17 years. The fight is about who should be the Prime Ministerial candidate. The JD(U) is against Gujarat CM Narendra Modi becoming t...
Delhi Police special cell filed its chargesheet in connection with BJP leader Arun Jaitley's phone tapping case. The chargesheet runs into 1100 pages and states that the accused accessed the phone call records of not just Jaitley, but also former BJP president...
The Janata Dal United has now told the BJP that there are other leaders other than Gujarat CM Narendra Modi, who are capable of becoming the Prime Minister and that they pitch for either Sushma Swaraj, Rajnath Singh or Arun Jaitley. The party has rejected Modi...
Training his guns on the UPA government, BJP's leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley says that the government is trying to save Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. According to a media report, the UPA government had vetted the coal scam investig...
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...
A private jet to Karnataka, carrying senior BJP leaders Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley, was forced to make an emergency landing soon after the take off owing to technical glitches. The leaders reportedly are waiting for alternative arrangements ...
Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley criticises the UPA government and says that the government's indecisivess is shameful and that it has to stop dragging its feet on important policy decisions. He says that it is wrong to say that the model, whi...
Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley addresses India Inc. at the Confederation of Indian Industries meet. He criticises the UPA government for poor growth and says that the government does not have any roadmap for development. He says that it is w...
With the DMK pulling out of the UPA coalition and Samajwadi Party on a threatening mode, how is the government going to survive the crisis? Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley, speaking on the issue, says UPA is on the verge of collapse. A...
Newshour | Objecting to Pakistan National Assembly's resolution condemning the execution of Parliament attack conspirator Afzal Guru, the government and Opposition joined hands to pass a unanimous resolution in Parliament. However, as the House assembled the B...
Even as BJP leader Arun Jaitley criticises the UPA government for its soft approach towards terrorism, in the wake of a suicide attack on CRPF training camp in Srinagar yesterday, Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde makes his statement on the attack in the...
Phone spying attempt on Arun Jaitley snowballed into a huge political controversy, even though Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde tried to defend the government. The Bharatiya Janata Party cornered the government, backed by the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj...
Leader of the Opposition Arun Jaitley faces the common man and answers questions like -- Why does Opposition play the role of an obstruction? He fields tough questions about his party, politics, elections and the prime ministerial candidate.
News Night | The drama that ensued in the Parliament over the Arun Jaitley phone tracking issue brings to the fore the shadowy war-craft practised by the political parties. National secy of SP Kamal Farooqui, ex-cabinet secretary TSR Subramanian, senior lawyer...
After Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde made a monumental gaffe in Parliament by naming the three rape victims of Bhandara, he withdraws his statement and his remarks were expunged from Parliament records. Outside the House, when cornered by the media, Shinde ...
Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde courts yet another controversy after naming the three minor victims of rape in Rajya Sabha. However, explaining to the media he says that he has withdrawn his statement as well as ordered the Home Secretary to inquire into thi...
Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley points out that Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde names the three underaged victims of rape in the document presented on the Floor of the House and asks him to correct the statement.
Arun Jaitley, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, points Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's mistake by identifying the three minor victims of rape. Shinde, in his statement presented in the Parliament about the Bhandara rape and murder case, names the three ...
Amidst uproar in Parliament over the phone tapping controversy, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde makes his statement on the Floor of the House. As the BJP seeks answers to the news of phone tapping of Arun Jaitley, Shinde says that the government did not auth...
BJP leader Sudhanshu Mittal addresses the media regarding the new developments in the Arun Jaitley phone tapping case. Fresh evidence claim that along with Jaitley, Sudhanshu Mittal's phone details were also extracted. He demanded that a thorough investigation...
The phone-tapping of BJP leaders is not actually tapping of phones in the traditional sense, but just an attempt by some protesters to obtain call details from the service providers. Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde tells the Parliament about the details of t...
Phones at many top BJP leaders were tapped by some private investigators who used the help of a Delhi police constable to write letters to service providers for tapping their phones. The names whose phones have been tapped, according to information from interr...
Phones of more than one BJP leader were tapped by a group of private investigators. First, it had emerged that four phones of BJP leader Arun Jaitely were tapped. The discovery of this case of political espionage came a week back. But it now appears that phone...
In the Arun Jaitley phone tapping incident, shocking information has come to light. According to the accused, Arun Jaitley wasn't the only BJP leader that they were targeting. Along with Jaitley, call details of BJP leaders like Lalit Modi, Sudhanshu Mittal an...
After the Finance Minister delivered his budget speech in Parliament, reactions from political parties comes pouring in. While the principal opposition party, BJP, calls it verbose and without substance, Left parties call it non-inclusive.
Leader of Opposition Arun Jaitley takes on AK Anthony after the Defence Minister made a statement on the chopper scam in the Rajya Sabha. Jaitley says Anthony sounded helpless in dealing with the issue, passing the buck on to the Italian government.
BJP leaders brought up the Arun Jaitley phone tapping case in the Rajya Sabha and demanded answers from the Government. Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde assured the Opposition that the Government had no hand or role in the phone tapping case and they have lau...
Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley lashes out at the centre over the NCTC row and says that it is meaningless to debate on an imaginary federalism vs terrorism issue. He further says that the fight against terrorism must co-exist with federalism.
While addressing the Rajya Sabha, Leader of Opposition Arun Jaitley says that the government has failed to prepare machinery to tackle terror in the country. He also says that there should cooperation between the Centre and the state government on sharing inte...
News Hour | Capital's worst kept secret is out in the open with the arrest of two men who were attempting to hack into BJP leader Arun Jaitley's phone records. With Delhi police submitting a list of top 15 politicians, industrialists and bureaucrats who have b...
The Delhi police say that top bureaucrats and industrialists' personal contacts have been compromised. The police have submitted the court a list of 15 influential people whose phones could have been tapped and emails would have been hacked. They say that the ...
The BJP has alleged a greater conspiracy in the attempt to get call records of senior party leader Arun Jaitley and has demanded a thorough probe into the matter. The Delhi police has made startling revelations in the phone records row and has said that encryp...
In the high profile Arun Jaitely call detail investigation, the Delhi police has arrested two more people, Anurag Singh and Nitish. Anuraj Singh is a private detective and his name had featured in the Amar Singh phone tapping incident case as well. The police ...
Delhi police have arrested two private detectives who secured phone call records of BJP leader Arun Jaitley and fifteen other prominent leaders by bribing police officials. The police say that the Arun Jaitley phone tapping episode is merely tip of the iceberg...
The police arrest one more person for attempting to access Arun Jaitley's cellphone records without permission. The police are now questioning the accused as to the motive behind trying to access the records.
In this episode of Frankly Speaking, Arun Jaitley speaks on the controversy regarding the attack on Justice Markandey Katju, Chairman, Press Council of India. Sparring between BJP and Congress has intensified after Katju made controversial remarks against Nare...
The war of words continues between Chairman of the Press Council of India Markandey Katju and BJP leader Arun Jaitley with both demanding each other's resignation. While Jaitley accused Katju of being politically biased, Katju accused Jaitley of 'stooping too ...
The war of words between Arun Jaitley and Justice Katju continues to brew. Arun Jaitely had called Katju a Congress agent. He also added that Katju was more Congress than the party members. Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said that he was shocked a...
War of words erupts between Congress and BJP after BJP leader Arun Jaitley accused Press Council chairman Markandey Katju of being biased against non-Congress states. Taking on the BJP leader, Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh says that Katju can't be...
Bitter political war breaks out between Congress and BJP after BJP leader Arun Jaitley accused Press Council chairman Markandey Katju of being biased against non-Congress states. Taking on the BJP leader, Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh says that Ka...
It's BJP versus Chairman of the Press Council of India Markandey Katju. The party's senior leader, Arun Jaitley, has accused Katju of harbouring political bias and unfairly targeting Narendra Modi. He has demanded that Katju step down immediately.
Senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi says that the allegations against PJ Kurien, Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha, is personal and added that there is no need for his resignation. He opined that Kurien should resign only if he is found guilty by the court. He ...
The BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi says the allegations against PJ Kurien, Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha is personal. Joshi adds that Kurien needs to resign only if the court finds him guilty. The BJP's central leadership sounds different from the state unit,...
BJP senior leader Arun Jaitley slams the government for making changes in the select committe report on Lokpal, says the government has no right to do this.
Sources say that the BJP has conveyed to National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon that the mood of the nation requires India take strict action against Pakistan. According to the minutes of the meeting between Menon and the Leaders of Opposition in both ho...
National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon meets Sushma Swaraj, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, and Arun Jaitley, Rajya Sabha leader of Opposition, to apprise them of the situation at the Line of Control. The meeting comes in the wake of rising...
National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon reaches the residence of Sushma Swaraj, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, to apprise her and Arun Jaitley, Rajya Sabha leader of Opposition, of the situation at the Line of Control. The meeeting comes in...
National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon reaches the residence of Sushma Swaraj, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha to apprise her of the situation at the Line of Control, amidst rising tensions between India and Pakistan. The meeting occurs in t...
National Security Advisor Shiv Shankar Menon will brief Senior BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley on the current situation at LoC and steps taken by the government. BJP leadership has been highly critical of government's soft approach towards Pakistan....
Hours after the BJP urged the government to take some tough measures in view of the recent tension on the LoC, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for a meeting with the Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj and her Rajya Sabha counterpart Arun Jaitley on th...
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has assured Opposition leader in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj that the government will keep both Swaraj and Arun Jaitley, Rajya Sabha leader of Opposition, updated about the situation along the Line of Control. The National Security Ad...
BJP leaders have come out strongly and condemned the actions of the Pakistani Army and the violation of the ceasefire. BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said that its time that the Indian government takes a strong stand on Pakistan and the violations. Arun ...
Condemning the unprovoked aggression by Pakistan, senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley says that the attack and the manner in which the soldiers were treated by Pakistan is a warning that in dealing with Pakistan, it is imperative that government of India clearly de...
Condoling the death of Delhi gangrape victim, BJP's leader in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley says that elected representatives of society should be given an opportunity to change the existing rape laws. Jaitley says apart from that the mindset biased against wo...
BJP leader Arun Jaitley addressed the memorial meet, held for Damini, at the Delhi headquarters. He said that it was time that the country awakens and comes together to address the problem. He said that India must make use of this situation to bring about the ...
With the landslide win in Gujarat, Modi's stature in the BJP will only grow bigger. This win has now risen questions on Nitin Gadkari's second time as the Party President. After the win, Gadkari himself had some words of praise for Modi. He said that the peopl...
Newshour | Amid the chorus of 'Vande Mataram' and 'Modi ki Jai', BJP leader Narendra Modi addresses his supporters and delivers his victory speech. Emerging victorious by winning 115 of the State's 182 seats, the BJP has strongly established a uniform base acr...
Speaking about BJP's victory in Gujarat, senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley says that despite the many attempts by the Congress to cause dissidence in BJP, the party won quite convincingly. Further on he says that the defeat in Himachal Pradesh was largely due to ...
BJP leader Arun Jaitley expresses happiness over Narendra Modi's hat-trick in Gujarat, but also says that the results need to be scrutinised properly. Four seats have been won by rebels in Gujarat, and the party has lost in Himachal Pradesh, all these factors ...
A day after criticising the Rajya Sabha chairman Hamid Ansari, BSP chief Mayawati today changed tune and said that she had 'respect' and 'full faith' in the Chair and expressed hope that he will find ways to pass the Quota Bill. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh a...
The government has offered a time-bound probe under a retired judge on the issue of Walmart lobbying allegations. The government's assurance comes after the opposition demanded that the Joint Parliamentary Committee look into the matter. The decision to permit...
The canvassing for the first-phase of the Gujarat polls has ended and now Gujarat Chief Minister has shifted his focus to Phase 2. Modi continued his attack on the Congress top brass, in what is being viewed as a preparation for the 2014 National elections.
Pressure is mounting on the UPA as Mayawati's deadline on the SC/ST Promotions Quota Bill ends today. The BSP supremo was instrumental in getting the FDI in retail motion passed in both Houses of Parliament. All eyes are now on the UPA as the Congress-led alli...
The BJP is now demanding a time-bound judicial probe into the Walmart controversy. Caving in under the immense pressure of the opposition in Parliament, the government agreed to a probe and debate on the issue. The opposition, which lost the vote on FDI in mul...
After chaos in the Parliament, the Government finally agrees to a debate and probe into the Walmart allegations. The opposition has claimed that the UPA bought votes to push the FDI Bill. The US-based retail giant clarified its expenditure of 25 million dollar...
Union Minister for Law, Kamal Nath, claims that the government is open to a probe on the matter of the Walmart report. He assures that the government is taking all the necessary steps to ensure the absence of lobbying in India. The BJP and the Left have demand...
Left leader Sitaram Yechury voices the concerns shared by the BJP-led opposition and calls for a structured debate on the issues of lobbying, which were raked up by a report submitted by Walmart before the US Senate. Despite the US State Department spokesperso...
Opposition leader Yashwant Sinha leads the uproar in Parliament over the Walmart row, demanding an immediate response from the government on the issue. The US-based retail giant issued a statement and spoke before the US senate clarifying its report stating an...
Speaker of the Rajya Sabha, and honourable Vice President of India, Hamid Ansari is forced to adjourn proceedings in the Rajya Sabha after the Left parties and the BJP-led opposition demand the suspension of the Question Hour. The BJP-led opposition has empha...
Responding to a question on the BJP-led opposition's prime accusations, US State Department spokesperson, Victoria Nuland, clarifies that there has been no violation of any law by Walmart in the United States. She then goes on to downplay the Walmart report an...
The Congress-led UPA government hits back at the BJP for threatening to stall Parliament proceedings over the Walmart report. The Congress challenges the BJP to prove its allegations before causing a furore in Parliament. The United States has downplayed the i...
The BJP seeks ans independent probe into the Walmart disclosure report that spoke of lobbying in India's political circles. Although the US has downplayed the Walmart report, the BJP-led opposition is still pushing for a time-bound judicial probe on the matter...
The BJP-led opposition has emphasized that it will step up the pressure on the UPA for a clarification on the issue of Walmart. The US-based retail giant issued a statement and spoke before the US senate clarifying its report stating an expenditure of 25 milli...
After securing the UPA's victory in Parliament over FDI in retail, BSP Chief Mayawati has threatened the government to take a tough stand on Quota Bill. BSP supremo Mayawati has put the onus on the UPA to ensure that the Promotions Quota is discussed in the Pa...
Addressing a news conference in Ahmedabad, ahead of the Gujarat elections on December 13, senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley takes on Congress. He calls the campaign in the state by the Congress to be crippled as the party's speech makers do not know what the grou...
Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Kapil Sibal; Leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley; and Left leader Sitaram Yechury share the stage at a leadership summit organised by Headlines Today. In this forum, the leaders discuss wh...
Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Kapil Sibal; Leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley; and Left leader Sitaram Yechury share the stage at a leadership summit organised by Headlines Today. In this forum, the leaders discuss th...
Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath is currently undertaking a meeting with top BJP leaders including Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj. The BJP is still demanding a discussion on FDI in retail and a vote in Parliament. With numbers falling in place, ...
Ram Jethmalani goes on attack mode against the BJP leadership. He says he had not received the show cause notice issued by the BJP parliamentary board. He also adds that he is busy man and he wants the time by which he can send a reply to be extended.
Senior BJP leader Ram Jethmalani reacts to the news that he has been dealt a showcause notice by the BJP high command. Jethmalani claims that he has not yet received the order; and when he does, he assures that he will react appropriately. Jaitley, meanwhile, ...
A defiant Ram Jethmalani claims that he has not received the show cause notice from the party. Taking on senior BJP leaders and Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley, he says that he will not take orders from them. He also targets the party for constantly opposing th...
Senior BJP leader Ram Jethmalani reacts to the news that he has been dealt a showcause notice by the BJP high command. Jethmalani claims that he has not yet received the order; and when he does, he assures that he will react appropriately. Jaitley, meanwhile, ...
Following the fresh round of controversy surrounding Ram Jethmalani's letter to party president Nitin Gadkari questioning Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj for their stand on the CBI director's appointment, Jaitley says that Jethmalani doesn't deserve a reply. D...
A year ago, the Opposition was strongly against the Lokpal bill and vociferous in its disproval during the 2011 winter session. However, in Parliament winter session 2012, in a sharp contrast to that image, there is a rare show of solidarity between the ruling...
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh invited the top brass of main Opposition BJP for a dinner on Thursday to ensure smooth functioning of Parliament in the winter session. This was on PM's agenda last week but due to the sudden and unfortunate event of Bal Thackeray...
The winter session of the Parliament may see more adjournments and ruckus as leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley says that the party will oppose FDI in retail, come what may. He claims that the implementation of this reform measure will adversely ...
Even as the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) spokesperson Ram Madhav reiterated that BJP's presidency is the party's internal matter, Sangh writ prevailed and Nitin Gadkari got to keep his post as BJP president. The BJP top leadership had met in Delhi on Tues...
Senior BJP leader and Supreme Court lawyer Ram Jethmalani has slammed his own party leadership for supporting Nitin Gadkari. The BJP leadership that met in Delhi on Tuesday decided to keep Nitin Gadkari as the party president. Mired with controversies in the r...
After the stinging letter written by senior BJP leader Ram Jethmalani to LK Advani was made public, senior leaders from the party have come together to decide on Nitin Gadkari's fate. In the aftermath of several allegations against the BJP president, the senio...
As the Himachal Pradesh assembly polls campaign is coming to an end, senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley exhorts the people of the state to give Congress a crashing defeat in the elections. He also takes on Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi over ...
Coming down heavily on the Congress-led Government in the Centre for their reforms that hurt the common man, senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley calls on the people of Himachal Pradesh to give the Congress a crushing defeat in the upcoming Assembly election, schedu...
BJP leader Arun Jaitley, speaking in Shimla, raises the issue of Congress leader and former Steel minister Virbhadra Singh's wealth. His allegations relate to wealth declared by Virbhadra in his revised returns, in which he showed a huge jump in his wealth, al...