The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court (UP High Court) pulled up the state government for not giving it a ‘full’ report on the investigations into the death of the 14 year old girl in Lakhimpur. “When the report was placed in front of the Court, it expressed its displeasure on being served with […]
The last ten days have been a treat for those looking to upgrade their phone to the latest and greatest in India — seeing the launch of the best of HTC, Apple and Samsung. The three phones represent the next generation of big-screened phones that are unabashedly geared towards media, media and more media. Unlike […]
In an attempt to buy time, the Government of India has decided to delay the Monsoon session of Parliament by two weeks. The move will help the Government thrash out all the formalities of framing the Lokpal bill. It was earlier scheduled to convene the Parliament by mid July and present the draft Lokpal bill. […]
The Congress and the Government sought to lob the too-hot-to-handle controversy over the shape of the Lokpal to other political parties, according to the statement issued by Kapil Sibal after the Lokpal meeting today. “80-85% of the points have been agreed.. Where there are disagreements, to formulate a draft where those areas are spelt out […]
The Congress side-stepped the controversy over general secretary Digvijay Singh’s comments that Rahul Gandhi is ready to take over the post of the Prime Minister. Party spokesperson Jayanti Natarajan said she saw Rahul Gandhi as the future leader of India, but “Manmohan Singh is our prime minister.” The clarification came after reports that even Rahul […]
Dynamix Balwas Realty, the mainstay of the Balwa business family, has denied media reports that its property is being attached by the government in connection with the ongoing 2G scam probe. It pointed out that the DB Realty as a firm was not involved in the alleged scam and it is only one of the […]
On the second day of his trip to Jammu and Kashmir the Home Minister P Chidambaram’s chopper had to make a force landing at the Srinagar airport this morning. According to the report the Minister was on his way to Pahalagaon when the pilot discovered some technical problem, besides the inclement weather also made the […]
The Civil Society said that the core points of disagreements with the Government could not be resolved in today’s meeting of the Lokpal Drafting Committee, but some more areas of divergence have come up today. “The disagreements remain as disagreements,” Arvind Kejriwal, one of the five Civil Society members on the Committee. The new disagreements […]
BJP leader and chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of the Parliament — which examines the revenue and expenditure of the government — Murli Manohar Joshi has urged the petroleum ministry to reply to the draft report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) as soon as possible. He questioned the statement by […]
Taking a leaf from competitors such as Asianet Cable, Bharti Airtel, one of India’s biggest private sector Internet providers, has upgraded all its volume-based broadband customers to 2 Mbps in the big cities and to 1 Mbps in others. Customers, such as those who have been using 256 Kbps connections, need not pay anything to […]
Santosh Hegde, Karnataka Lokayukta and one of five people representing the people’s movement against corruption on the Lokpal panel, has again reiterated his stand that the issue of the Prime Minister’s inclusion under the Lokpal may be a diversion tactic. He pointed out that the way the Congress and the Government have suddenly highlighted the […]
LG Optimus 2X is fast emerging as the most affordable dual-core, large-display multimedia phone. The Optimus 2X, the country’s first dual core phone, seems to be finding a spot just below the technically most advanced phones in the market today — the Samsung Galaxy S2 and the HTC Sensation. While the above two are beefier […]
The CBI has replied to the recent Supreme Court on its question about where the money allegedly paid to Kanimozhi as a bribe is located and how much is the loss caused by the 2G scam. According to the 80-page affidavit filed by the CBI in the Supreme Court today, the Rs 214 crore bribe […]
BJP general secretary Ravi Shankar Prasad has hit back at Congress for questioning the qualification of Nitin Gadkari to occupy the seat of the BJP President. The Congress had questioned Gadkari’s qualification to talk about election and democracy pointing out that he was just a normal worker affiliated to the RSS before being elevated to […]
India Against Corruption, the grand alliance of NGOs and activists leading the struggle for a strong Lokpal bill, the campaigners welcomed the government’s move to hold an all-party meet on the bill. “We have always been asking for more and more inputs into the process,” pointed out Prashant Bhushan, one of the five representatives of […]
The Supreme Court has finished hearing the arguments on Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi’s bail plea in the 2G scam case. It reserved the order for 12:30 pm. Kanimozhi’s main argument in the case has been that she is a woman and the primary care-giver to a 10-year-old child. On Legal grounds, she has argued that since […]
If the Congress is in a mood to share some of the flak for ‘blocking’ a strong Lokpal through an All Party meet, the opposition seems to be in no mood to share the burden of resisting an increasingly focused anti-corruption movement. The Congress, after a brainstorming session of the top leaders at the PM […]
Most of us know HP as a computer company. Still fewer of us know it as an enterprise services company. But now, the world’s largest PC maker seems to be trying out the consumer Internet market as well. In a surprising move, HP has launched a video-watching tool that can be downloaded and installed on […]
The petroleum minister Jaipal Reddy has refused to respond to the points raised by the draft CAG report, but ridiculed the BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi for being a “headline hunter.” “I would not like respond to the points raised in the draft report. We are to give considered replies,” he said. On the issue […]
The investigation into the murder of the crime journalist J Dey seems set to be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) after the Maharashtra home minister RR Patil said the police have not been unearth any clues in the investigation so far. “The criminals have not left any evidence for us to […]
