The Mumbai police have arrested one suspect in the investigation of the journalist J Dey, charging him with trying to cheat the reporter by posing as a Government officer. Nihal Tanna has been sent to police custody for three days, during which time he will be interrogated for getting any leads about the murder. He […]
Both the Civil Society and the government seem to be playing the game of brinkmanship, with Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh now saying that the government may deal with Anna in the same way it dealt with Baba Ramdev. “Anna saheb says he will again sit on fast. If he does, he may get the […]
India Against Corruption, the umbrella body spearheading the struggle for a powerful anti-corruption mechanism, has given out a list of areas where the government has simply failed to see eye to eye with them. The requirements that Government has refused are the following, according to the IAC: Including the PM, Judge and MP voting Including […]
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 […]
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 […]
Leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha and senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj has called the ‘bubble gum’ episode “India’s Watergate” and called for a thorough investigation into the matter. “Is it that the Government was spying on its own Finance Minister? Or is it a Corporate House,” she asked in a tweet, echoing the […]
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 […]
Kanimozhi’s bail plea application before the Supreme Court has been rejected. She has been asked to re-apply for bail after charges are framed against her in the trail court at Patiala House — the trial court. The move means that Kanimozhi may spend quite a few days more in jail as she awaits charges to […]
Baba Ramdev, the Yogi with crores of followers, especially among the elderly, is in no mood to give up his bid for a rightful place in India’s anti-corruption campaign despite being forcibly thrown out of Delhi once. Acharya Balkrishna, the main aide to the Baba, said the Baba will “join” Anna in his protest in […]
The BJP has jumped into the Brahmaputra controversy, with senior leader Rajnath Singh writing to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warning of a ‘devastating’ effect on people living in Assam and the North East if China diverts water from the Brahmaputra. “Brahmaputra is an international river. According to international law, its waters cannot be diverted […]
With the Supreme Court ordering Kanimozhi to re-apply for bail after the framing of charges, all eyes are now on the special Court of OP Saini in Patiala House courts of Delhi. The Supreme Court’s intention to effectively post-pone the bail hearing was visible a week ago, when a different bench heard the bail plea […]
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 […]
As the tussle over getting admission into Delhi colleges worsens, one of India’s top two industry associations, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) has reminded the government about the several education reform bills catching dust in Human Resources Development ministry’s cabinets The industry organization, whose opinions tend to reflect those of […]
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 […]
A joint, three-year study by the The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Toyota Corporation has pointed to the possibility of India suffering from a double whammy of dangerous dust and ozone levels over the next 10 to 20 years unless action is taken now. If things are allowed to go an they are, the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dell, India’s biggest computer brand, has taken the extra-ordinary step of tweaking its first phone before launching it here. The Dell Aero, launched on Letsbuy.com, has been upgraded from Android 1.5 to Android 2.1 (Eclair) before being launched in India. The phone will debut in India at the lower end of the big screen Android […]
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 […]
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 […]
