Liquor baron Ponty Chadha on Thursday refuted reports that cash to the tune of Rs 100 crore has been seized from a mall owned by him in Noida near here during searches carried out by the Income Tax officials. In a statement, Wave Infratech
State-owned oil companies today snapped supplies of jet fuel (ATF) to Air India after the national carrier failed to honour payments even after 90-day credit period. "All three oil companies (Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan
Telecom regulator Trai said on Thursday that there will not be much impact on customers due to cancellation of 122 2G licenses of eight companies, as around 95 per cent of total subscribers belong to operators which got licences before January 200
The finance ministry is working out the financial implication of the supreme court judgement to cancel 122 telecom licences on the banking sector. "We have to see the implication. Officers are working on the impact of judgement on the
Home minister P Chidambaram may have got a reprieve from the supreme court but he is definitely not off the hook. Very soon, the CBI court dealing with the 2G scam will have to examine his role as the finance minister in the 2008 spectrum allocati
In spite of doing his best to prevent use of money (close to Rs 70 crore in cash seized in Tamil Nadu during the last elections) and other inducements (more than 8 lakh bottles of liquor and more than 50 kg of heroin valued at Rs 250 crore in inte
Aggressively campaigning for a foothold in Uttar Pradesh, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Thursday questioned Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav`s commitment to Muslims and charged chief minister Mayawati with living under the fa
Pitching for immediate reforms in the Centre`s flagship rural job scheme MGNREGS, Congress president Sonia Gandhi today said the complaints of corruption and irregularities regarding the scheme cannot be ignored. Prime Minister Manm
Bollywood actor John Abraham feels that illiterate politicians must be rooted out of the system and there is a need for educated younger ones to take charge. "We all must remove all ouIlr illiterate politicians, those who don`t know a
Goa`s private public transport lobby has began campaigning against corrupt candidates for the forthcoming state legislative assembly polls through their passengers. The All Goa Bus Owners Association (AGBOA) has said that they have started educati
Terming the Supreme Court order in 2G case as "historic", lawyer Prashant Bhushan said it will send a strong signal to the corporates and corrupt public officials who retain the benefits of illegal acts. "It is a historic ju
Cancellation of 2G licenses by the supreme court clearly brought out the big scam and it was a "collective failure" of the government which "overlooked" warnings given by the CAG and the CVC on the issue, Janata Party chief Sub
As the Supreme Court cancelled the 2G licences allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis, CPI chose to attack P Chidambaram saying that he cannot absolve himself as it was his job to prevent irregularities in the issue. Describing the S
Leader of the opposition in the Tamil Nadu Assembly Vijaykanth was on Thursday suspended for 10 days after the privileges committee went into the conduct of the DMDK leader during a heated exchange with chief minister J Jayalalithaa.
Telecom minister Kapil Sibal met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh shortly after the supreme court judgement that canncelled all 122 licences issued in January, 2008. He is understood to have discussed the implications of the court orde
The government on Thursday announced discontinuing releasing weekly primary and food inflation data based on the wholesale price index. "Weekly WPI is discontinued henceforth," the ministry of Commerce and Industry, which release
The supreme court on Thursday asked the CBI to file status reports on its ongoing probe into the 2G spectrum allocation case to the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC). The court`s decision came on a plea for setting up a Special Investigat
Noting that per capita emission in developed countries is 10 to 12 times that of those in developing countries, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said there appears to be a "lack of will" in the global community to tackle the pro
Fighting a grim battle for life since the past 16 days at AIIMS, the condition of two-year-old Falak further deteriorated on Thursday due to an infection in blood which has increased her chances of suffering a multi-organ failure. Admitted
Anna Hazare`s anti-graft campaign will echo in the March 3 Goa Legislative assembly polls forcing people to vote against the corrupt, feels Remo Fernandes, who has been chosen as the brand ambassador of the Election Commission to promote ethical v
