23:10
Rahul Gandhi will chair a meeting of the Congress Working Committee tomorrow, his first as Congress president.The CWC will accord a warm welcome to the new president and likely discuss the current political situation, including the ramifications of the Congress' strong performance in the Gujarat...
22:01
Newly elected Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs of Gujarat will meet in Gandhinagar tomorrow to choose the next chief minister, a top party official said today.The BJP legislature party will meet to elect its leader in the presence of central observers for the exercise -- Union Finance Minister Arun...
21:10
Former telecom minister A Raja was not the 'mother lode of conspiracy' and he 'cannot be faulted' for misrepresention of facts to then prime minister Manmohan Singh, the special court said today, while acquitting the Dravida Munnetra Kazhgam leader in the 2G spectrum allocation case.The court...
20:24
Polling passed off peacefully at the RK Nagar assembly constituency in Chennai today, with an estimated 60 per cent of the electorate exercising their franchise by 3 pm in the prestigious bypoll.Election officials said the final voting figure is expected later tonight as many people were still...
19:01
Former Telecom Minister A Raja says acquittal in 2G spectrum case validates rightfulness.The entire case of 'presumptive loss' in 2G spectrum allocation was 'cooked-up'; vested interests manipulated public perception, he said.Raja said his 'actions were for benefit of masses'.On being asked if he...
18:44
Unfazed by the acquittal of all accused in the 2G allocation case, the government today asserted that the process used by the previous United Progressive Alliance regime to allocate lucrative spectrum was faulty and dipped in corruption.Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha said the fate of the 122...
17:46
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, who unearthed the 2G spectrum case, on Thursday, snubbed the verdict in the muti-crore scam, while saying that the government needs loyal officers not sycophants.All accused in the 2G spectrum allocation scam cases - including former telecom minister A Raja and...
17:43
Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath is a hero in Karnataka. People want to meet him for his lectures and speeches on Hinduism. Karnataka will go to the polls in April 2018 and the BJP in Karnataka wants Adityanath to work his charm. As with other states, BJP president Amit Shah has already begun...
17:24
The CBI today received a backhanded compliment from a special court in Delhi for filing a well choreographed charge sheet containing incorrect facts which miserably failed to prove charges against the accused in 2G spectrum case. Special judge O P Saini, who acquitted the accused facing trial in...
17:24
Now that the Gujarat and Himachal polls are done and dusted, will the BJP finally take action again dissidents like senior party leader Yashwant Sinha?Jharkhand BJP leaders have urged BJP chief Amit Shah to take action against Sinha for his criticism of the party for its economic policies.Sinha's...
16:27
Chennai: 57.16% voting in the RK Nagar bypoll till 3 pm.
16:17
Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Anand Sharma meet Kanimozhi at her residence in Delhi after her acquittal in the 2G scam verdict.
15:27
A Special Central Bureau of Investigation court on Thursday acquitted all 19 accused in the 2G spectrum allocation case, which has sent a wave of happiness among the Congress party and the DMK party members.Pronouncing the scathing judgement, Special CBI judge OP Saini said that there was no...
14:56
Jaya Bachchan on Sachin Tendulkar not being allowed to speak amid Opposition ruckus in the Rajya Sabha. He has earned name for India at the world stage, it is a matter of shame that he was not allowed to speak even when everyone knew it was on today's agenda. Are only politicians allowed to...
14:36
Arvind Kejriwal @ArvindKejriwal 2G scam is one of the biggest scams. It rocked the country n was one of the reasons for UPA's downfall. Today everyone goes scot free. Did CBI mess up the case? Intentionally? People need answers
14:30
Rajya Sabha MP Sachin Tendulkar rises to speak in Parliament, his debut speech in the five years he has been MP. However, Opposition ruckus prevents him from speaking. RS chairperson Venkaiah Naidu adjourns the House. The Opposition was raising a ruckus over PM Modi's remarks on Manmohan Singh...
14:10
Meanwhile, elsewhere in Tamil Nadu.Even as voting goes on briskly in Chennais RK Nagar assembly constituency, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of late All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam supremo J Jayalalithaa, hoardings can be seen across the high-profile constituency bearing a...
13:44
MK Stalin reaches Gopalapuram to meet M Karunanidhi. Stalin today described as historic a special court verdict acquitting his party colleagues A Raja and Kanimozhi besides others in the 2G spectrum allocation case. Expressing joy over the acquittal of all the accused including his sister...
13:32
DMK supporters distribute sweets in celebration of the 2G verdict in Coimbatore after the acquittal of all the accused in the 2G scam.
13:14
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, who was one of the petitioners on whose plea a CBI probe was ordered in 2G case, today said the government should immediately appeal in the Delhi High Court against the acquittal. Former Telecom Minister and DMK leader A Raja, his party colleague and Rajya Sabha MP...
13:01
Former Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), Vinod Rai had calculated that 2G spectrum allocation in 2008 -- under the UPA regime when A Raja was the telecom minister -- led to notional loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the national exchequer. There was no case from the beginning. In fact,...
12:39
Arun Jaitley says Congress treating 2G verdict as badge of honour, but its zero loss theory was proven wrong when SC quashed spectrum allocation.
12:38
DMK leader MK Stalin today described as historic a special court verdict acquitting his party colleagues A Raja and Kanimozhi besides others in the 2G spectrum allocation case. Expressing joy over the acquittal of all the accused including his sister Kanimozhi and former telecom minister Raja,...
12:32
Kapil Sibal @KapilSibal After the 2G judgement by the Special Court 0 gain for BJP My position vindicatedCongress leader Kapil Sibal on Thursday welcomed the acquittal of the accused in the 2G spectrum allocation scam cases by the special CBI court and sought an apology from former CAG Vinod...
12:24
The CBI today said it would study the special court verdict on the 2G spectrum scam case and then decide the future course of action. Former telecom minister A Raja and DMK MP Kanimozhi were today acquitted by a special court in the 2G spectrum scam case. Fifteen other accused in the case and...
12:23
Former Telecom minister and DMK leader A Raja today hailed the verdict in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case in which he was acquitted by a special court. I will read the judgement and tell. You see everybody is happy, Raja told reporters after coming out of the court room. He was surrounded by...
12:16
Former PM Manmohan Singh on the 2G scam verdict: The court judgement has to be respected. I'm glad that the court has pronounced that the massive propaganda against UPA was without any foundation. The former PM's image was battered in the the wake of the 2G scam. In February 2011, Singh had said...
11:51
2G verdict: All acquitted in the case will have to furnish a bail bond of Rs 5 lakhs each. This is done to ensure their presence in a higher appellate court if the verdict is challenged.
11:42
Subramanian Swamy on how the verdict on the 2G case may finally turn out. @Swamy39 Congis and Allies celebrated JJ HC acquittal. Then in SC got deflated. Same will be here.JJ refers to J Jayalalithaa's disproportionate assets case. The Supreme Court had found her guilty, though the case against...
11:39
Anna Hazare: It is improper for me to comment on what the judiciary has said. There may have been a deficiency in the case that was made.
11:36
Tamil Nadu: DMK workers celebrate in Coimbatore after Patiala House Court acquitted all in the 2G scam verdict.
11:34
Read the chronology of the 2G case.
11:31
A jubilant Kanimozhi says that justice has prevailed. It's been a difficult seven years for everybody. There was a lot of conspiracy. Cannot blame one person. This verdict will enthuse DMK cadre.
11:29
Besides Raja and Kanimozhi, Special Judge O P Saini also acquitted Shahid Balwa, Vinod Goenka, Asif Balwa, Rajiv Aggarwal, Karim Morani, P Amirtham and Sharad Kumar in connection with the case. In its charge sheet, the ED had also named DMK supremo M Karunanidhi's wife Dayalu Ammal as an accused...
11:25
Clearly the Court found that innocent people have been wronged. Justice has worked as it is supposed to work in our country: Shashi Tharoor, Congress.
11:22
I would love to thank everyone who stood by me, Kanimozhi, said outside court. Kapil Sibal who had succeeded A Raja as the telecom minister and claimed that the spectrum allocation had caused 'zero loss' said, I had always maintained that this was no scam. It was a scam by former CAG Vinod Rai....
11:10
DMK supporters celebrating outside the Patiala House Court after the Court's pronouncement of the 2G scam verdict. All accused have been acquitted.
11:08
Allegation of a major scam involving the highest levels of government was never true, was not correct and that has been established today: P Chidambaram, Congress.
11:06
Vijay Aggarwal, lawyer of Swan Telecom promoters Shahid Usman Balwa, Vinod Goenka and others, said: The court said that the prosecution has miserably failed to prove any of its charge. Thus all accused are acquitted. Remember the voting for the RK Nagar bypoll has begun this morning. The DMK will...
11:02
All other accused and three companies were also acquitted in the case. Special CBI Judge O P Saini pronounced the judgement in the 2G scam which had rocked the UPA government. In its charge sheet filed in April 2011 against Raja and others, the CBI had alleged that there was a loss of Rs 30,984...
11:01
Fire broke out at an eatery at platform no. 4 of the Bandra railway station in Mumbai. No casualties reported. Situation under control.
10:55
Two things are very clear. One, that I did not have any disproportionate wealth, as per the CBI's contention before the court. And there has been no loss to the exchequer, which has been admitted by the joint secretary.This is what the former telecom minister A Raja told Rediff.com's...
10:51
All 17 accused acquitted in the 2G case. The court said that the prosecution has not been able to prove that the money has been received or that any transactions took place. The judge said the prosecution has miserably failed to prove the case. Scenes of jubilation outside the court by the at...
10:47
2G scam verdict: Former telecom minister A Raja and DMK MP Kanimozhi have been found NOT guilty in the case.
10:45
As we await the verdict in the 2G scam, in Ayodhya, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad has made an official petition to the Receiver, who is the Commissioner of the Faizabad division, requesting him to order woolen clothes and a room heater for 'Ram Lala' in the disputed land...
10:38
Present at the Delhi court are Kanimozhi's mother Rajathi Ammal, half-brother MK Alagiri, her husband G Aravindaan and other DMK leaders. The special court, which is exclusively dealing with the cases arising out of the 2G spectrum allocation scam, has directed all 17 accused to remain present...
10:25
Bill on Triple Talaq will be tabled in the Parliament, tomorrow: Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar
10:18
The Congress' revival in Gujarat stunned many even though it lost the assembly election to the Bharatiya Janata Party. The Congress made maximum gains in rural Gujarat. Of the 109 seats in rural Gujarat, the Congress won 62. In contrast, it only won 15 seats in the cities. Why did rural Gujarat...
10:16
RK Nagar bypolls: A voter who had come to cast his vote along with his dog was turned away by the poll authorities. The man finally voted after leaving his dog with his friend who had also come to vote. AIADMK candidate E Madhusudhanan also cast his vote, and said, God and Amma's grace is with us.
09:57
DMK MPs Kanimozhi and former telecom minister A Raja arrive at a Delhi court which will be pronouncing the verdict in the much-anticipated 2G spectrum allocation scam cases.The verdict is expected to be pronounced nearly seven years after the first arrest was made by the CBI in 2011.One of the...
09:47
The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed the Indian Forest (Amendment) Bill, 2017.The bill was tabled in the Lok Sabha and will put an end to the need for getting permission to transport bamboo.The Bill was introduced by Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan.According to the bill's Statement of Objects...
09:29
An FIR was registered against Patidar quota agitation spearhead Hardik Patel and around 50 of his supporters for holding a roadshow on the city outskirts on 11 December without permission, police said. This is the second FIR filed against Patel for organising unauthorised rallies.The Ahmedabad...
09:19
In an extraordinary gesture, Pakistan army chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, urged the country's lawmakers to try to improve relations with India, assuring them that their efforts would be fully backed by the army. His address comes in the backdrop of sustained American emphasis to Pakistani...
08:59
The Central Government is likely to introduce a bill on triple talaq in the Lok Sabha today.Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had, on December 15, said that the Cabinet approved a proposal to introduce the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2017, to make instant triple...
08:31
Polling for the the prestigious RK Nagar constituency have begun today.In Tamil Nadu, campaigning for the high-stakes bypoll came to an end yesterday.Counting of votes will be held on December 24.The bypoll was necessitated as the constituency fell vacant after the death of AIADMK chief J...
08:10
A special court is likely to decide today the fate of former telecom minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and several others in the much-anticipated 2G spectrum allocation scam cases.Special CBI judge O P Saini is scheduled to pronounce the judgments in separate cases lodged by the CBI and the ED in...
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Vice President Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday said that freedom of speech and expression cannot be absolute but it should also not be trampled upon.Naidu, who was the Information and Broadcasting Minister before getting elected as the vice president, said he was not pleased with India's ranking in...
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