The supreme court on Thursday awarded one year rigorous imprisonment to former Kerala power minister and Congress leader R Balakrishnan Pillai and two others in the Idamalayar dam corruption case. A bench of justices P Sathasivam and B S C
1. Devas does not own either the spectrum, the two satellites or the user-terminal technology. It is only an agent for foreign multinationals. It paid Rs. 1,000 Crores, for two custom-built satellites but not a dime for the spectrum. Most
Swan Telecom and Unitech Telecom companies had together caused a loss of over Rs 7,000 crore to government exchequer as both had offloaded their shares for hefty sums after getting the 2G spectrum, alleges CBI. With the arrest of Shahid Us
With the government under fire over the S-band irregularities, the Congress on Wednesday made attempts at damage control seeking to divest the issue of its association with scams. Congress spokesperson Manish Tiwari said the matter has ass
The government does not seem to be taking the matter of children’s health needs seriously, held the Delhi high court on Wednesday, as the authorities failed to submit a reply on banning junk food in school canteens. A public interest
The Arushi Talwar murder case took a curious turn on Wednesday when a special CBI court hearing on the agency`s closure report rejected the same and ordered filing of chargesheets against her parents Rajesh Talwar and Nupur Talwar for
CBI was on Wednesday allowed two days transit remand of Swan Telecom promoter Shahid Usman Balwa by a Mumbai court to take him to Delhi and confront him with former Telecom Minister A Raja, who is also in the agency`s custody in connection with th
Defence minister A K Antony on Wednesday said "violent disturbances" in India`s neighbourhood pose a security challenge to the country and the government was committed to rapidly modernising the armed forces to meet the challenge.
Former Samajwadi party leader Amar Singh on Wednesday faced intense grilling from the supreme court as he sought to drop his allegations against Congress and its chief Sonia Gandhi in connection with the tapping of his phone in 2006. Singh
The Allahabad high court on Wednesday extended till May 31 the status quo on the implementation on its September 30 order on the Ayodhya title suits. While extending the status quo, a special Lucknow full bench of the court comprising just
The union law minister Veerappa Moily has said that as many as 5067 Gram Nyayalayas (village-level courts) would be set up in the country in the near future. Moily was here to deliver a lecture on Ramayan at a religious function organised
Black money parked in tax havens abroad will be taxable income under the Direct Taxes Code Bill, the centre told the supreme court today, spelling out a host of measures to retrieve it. The government also informed the apex court that it h
The surest way to occupy the Raisina Hill edifice is to cook food and wash utensils for the top Congress leader, Waqf Amin Khan, Rajasthan`s minister of state for panchayati raj has suggested. Khan says he`s got living proof - president Pr
We, the 38* undersigned Nobel laureates, respectfully express our astonishment and dismay at the unjust life sentence handed down last month in India to a fellow scientist and human rights advocate, 61-year-old Dr. Binayak Sen. We note tha
Under attack over an alleged scam in allocation of scarce S-band spectrum, the Isro on Tuesday announced that it has already initiated the process to terminate the deal with Devas Multimedia and claimed there was no financial loss to the governmen
Under attack over an alleged scam in allocation of scarce S-band spectrum, the Isro on Tuesday announced that it has already initiated the process to terminate the deal with Devas Multimedia and claimed there was no financial loss to the governmen
Even as Indian Airlines pilots threaten to strike work from February 11 over the issue of pay parity, the Air India (formerly NACIL) management has deferred their salary remittances for the thgird time this month. Now, the pilots would be
In a development that has huge financial implications for existing as well as new operators, telecom regulator Trai has recommended fixing the price for 6.2 MHz of pan-India start-up 2G spectrum at Rs 10,972.45 crore, more than six times the prese
Trashing the report on 2G scam by justice Shivraj Patil, former telecom minister Arun Shourie on Tuesday accused union minister Kapil Sibal of trying to save A Raja by functioning as his advocate. "Telecom minister Kapil Sibal is an a
The Food Safety and Standards Authority (FSSA) undertook before the court that a new panel sans industry insiders will be constituted to look into harmful effects of soft drinks, after the supreme court on Tuesday deemed it illegal. The court obse
