The government is trying to make amends after the Supreme Court made its scathing observations in the coal block allocation scam case. Sources claim that a group of ministers will be set up to determine a mechanism to impart functional autonomy to the CBI. P C...
Union Minister of State in the PMO V Narayanaswamy denies any interference in the CBI probe into Coalgate. CBI has submitted an affidavit on the coal block allocation in the Supreme Court today.
CPI leader and Joint Parliamentary Commission member Gurudas Dasgupta has hit back at the PMO minister. Minister of State in Prime Minister's Office Narayanaswamy had earlier accused Gurudas of violating parliamentary practice. Gurudas says that Narayanaswamy ...
The Congress has hit out at the BJP by demanding the ouster of BJP leaders Yashwant Sinha, Jaswant Singh and Ravi Shankar Prasad from the Joint Parliamentary Commission. The move has come after the BJP had demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Si...
MoS PMO V Narayanaswamy says that the raid done by the CBI in DMK supremo Karunidhi's son MK Stalin's house was not ordered by the government and that the government is investigating the matter. He conveys to the DMK that the government does not go behind any ...
Minister of State, Prime Minister's Office, V Narayanaswamy has said that the Centre will ensure that Pakistan agrees to a fresh ceasefire agreement. According to Narayanaswamy, terms in the ceasefire agreement have to be honoured and if Pakistan violates tho...
The current Comptroller and Auditor General of India Vinod Rai has been rattling the Centre's cage a little too much. Which is probably why the government is trying to make the office of CAG into a three-member body. Minister of State V Narayanaswamy, who let ...
Newshour | Minister of State (MoS) in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) V Narayanaswamy caused a controversy, claiming that the government is considering a proposal to make CAG a multi-member body. Following the outrage over this remark Narayanaswamy claimed t...
Minister of State (MoS) in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) V Narayanaswamy denies reports that he said that the government is mulling over a 'multi-member CAG' to PTI. He accuses PTI of selectively using the excerpts from the interview and claims that he wa...
Downplaying the CAG controversy, Finance Minister P Chidambaram says that Minister of State (MoS) in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) V Narayanaswamy has denied making any specific references to the CAG. He says that all that Narayanaswamy said was that the S...
Minister of State V Narayanaswamy denies that the CAG will be made into a multi-member body. Former CEC SY Quraishi backs this move though many others have slammed this possibility.
Union Minister V Narayanaswamy has claimed that his comments have been misrepresented. He has said that his alleged criticism of DMK and the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project was in fact misrepresentation of what he had said. He had faced flak for allegedly pra...
Even as the BJP is demanding answers and immediate action from the government and Prime Minister over the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on coal block allocation, the principle Opposition party is unwilling to come forward and debate over the iss...
News Night | The CAG report on the coal scam leaves the UPA embarrassed as the report hold the Government responsible for the loss of Rs 1.86 lakh crore. While the UPA has questioned the reach and methodology of the report, the CAG holds the PM responsible for...
MoS PMO V Narayanaswamy says that hundreds of CAG reports are being tabled in the Parliament everyday and that it is only a preliminary report. The facts on the coal scam, as presented in the report, need to be checked and verified before saying that the Gover...
Social activist Anna Hazare trains his guns on PMO Narayanasamy and says that he is trying to break his team. He alleges that Narayanasamy had written letters to his team making several false claims about some deal between Anna Hazare and the Government.
Newshour | Team Anna is back in Jantar Mantar for the third time. By the look of the crowd, it seems that even the people are waiting to see whether they should render their full support. Has Anna Hazare lost the faith of the people?
Anna Hazare addresses the supporters who have gathered at Jantar Mantar to express solidarity for his cause. Team Anna members including Arvind Kejriwal and Kiran Bedi have come together for an indefinite fast, to protest against the UPA Government for failing...
Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal, on an indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar, sharply criticizes the Congress and the Prime Minister. Calling the Government corrupt, he says that the team has been betrayed time and again on the Lokpal bill.
Following a huge ruckus created by some alleged members of the NSUI, Team Annna charge the Government of trying to derail the fast. However, MoS Narayaswamy has said that the party does not support any violent act and says that such allegations are unfortunate...
Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal, on an indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar, sharply criticizes the Congress and the Prime Minister. Calling the Government corrupt, he says that the team has been betrayed time and again on the Lokpal bill.
Anna Hazare denies receiving a letter from the Prime Minister's Office which had rejected Team Anna's demand for a special investigation team stating that his impression on the CBI was wrong, and had asserted that all allegations against the PM in the coal blo...
The Prime Minister's Office writes to Anna Hazare, says his impression on the CBI is wrong, rejects Team Anna's demand for a special investigation team and asserts that all allegations against the PM in the coal block allocation scam are based on false media r...
BJP President Nitin Gadkari reacts to Minister of State in the PMO Narayanaswamy's statement calling Team Anna members anti-national elements, says it is not appropriate to call anyone anti-national and adds anyone who criticizes the government cannot be label...
Minister of State in the PMO, Narayanaswamy, takes on Team Anna, alleges money laundering and says Anna Hazare is surrounded by anti-national elements.
Anna Hazare and the Prime Minister evidently withdraw their open battle and tone down their attacks on each other. While Anna has called the PM an honest man going through a tough time, the PM's office has called Anna a simple man surrounded by wrong people.
Minister of State in the PMO, Narayanaswamy, says the Prime minister wanted to have a transparent form of coal block allocation back in 2004. He adds, in fact, there was no transparency during the NDA regime and the PM followed a transparent method.
After Narayanaswamy, Union Law Minister Salman Khursheed confirms the HT report that the 2G Swiss money trail has gone cold. Headlines Today reported that the Swiss money trail had gone cold primarily because the Swiss government stonewalled the 2G probe, citi...
Senior UPA leader Narayanaswamy confirms an HT expose on the probe into the 2G Swiss money trail. Headlines Today reported that the Swiss money trail had gone cold primarily because the Swiss government stonewalled the 2G probe, citing secrecy laws. This fact ...
Reacting to the allegations made by PMO V Narayanaswamy against party president Nitin Gadkari, BJP leader Sidharth Nath Singh remarks that PMO should be more serious in answering the questions nation is asking.
Slamming Team Anna for turning a blind eye to coal policy of NDA, Minister of State in the PMO V Narayanaswamy remarks that the government has been following the same policy all along.
According to a PTI report, a Joint Secretary-rank officer in the Cabinet Secretariat has been found guilty of leaking Army Chief VK Singh's letter to the PM on defence preparedness.
BJP Spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad, who took the opportunity to attack the Congress government on Wednesday, said the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has suffered yet another embarrassment before the Supreme Court.