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The Great Defence Scandal
December 19, 2002
  • Opposition continues to boycott Fernandes in Parliament
December 8, 2002
  • Tehelka not to participate in any new inquiry: Tejpal
December 3, 2002
  • Delhi court rejects Jaya Jaitly's case against Tehelka
November 27, 2002
  • George is only a political colleague: Jaya Jaitly
  • Jaya Jaitly accuses Tehelka, Cong of sabotaging probe
November 25, 2002
  • I am deeply hurt by the allegations:Venkataswami
August 8, 2002
  • Non-bailable warrant against Tarun Tejpal, 3 others: PTI
August 7, 2002
  • Anirudh Bahal arrested; but court grants bail
July 29, 2002
  • Money was paid at Fernandes' house: Tehelka reporter/PTI
July 17, 2002
  • Fernandes moves bill, opposition walks out: PTI
July 3, 2002
 

• Tehelka journalist sent to CBI custody
• Fund for tehelka came from West Asia: Govt
• Venkataswami panel counsel alleges 'pressure'
• Tehelka scribe appears before panel
• Tehelka scribe arrested in poaching case

  • Delhi HC dismisses Jaya Jaitly's plea
April 26, 2002
  • Tehelka had definite plan to fix me: Bangaru Laxman
February 15, 2002
  • Jaya wants to be cross-examined after Tehelka reporters
January 8, 2002
  • Jaya Jaitley's witness claims Mathew was a 'fraud'
December 21, 2001
  • Opposition boycotts meeting chaired by Fernandes
December 19, 2001
  • Govt to appoint new judge to head Tehelka probe
• Fernandes keeps away from Parliament under deal with Oppn
December 14, 2001
  • Kargil procurement: CVC initiates action on CAG report
December 12, 2001
  • Irrelevant weaponry purchases made in the name of Kargil: CAG
December 11, 2001
  • Soldiers make sacrifices, officials make money
• Don't target army, Fernandes tells opposition
• BJP defends Fernandes
• Fernandes to be examined first
December 5, 2001
  • Decision on witnesses on Dec 11: Venkatswami
November 29, 2001
  • Motives, means behind Tehelka to be probed
November 23, 2001
  • Venkataswami Commission get another extension
November 6, 2001
  • No clandestine probe into Tehelka: CBI
November 5, 2001
  • Guidelines for defence agents announced
October 23, 2001
  • Tehelka transcripts inaccurate: Jaya
• BJP at loggerheads over Laxman's possible re-induction
October 15, 2001
  • Govt should wind up Venkatswami Commission: Tejpal
October 14, 2001
  • Jaswant, Venkaiah back George's case
October 12, 2001
  • Tehelka tapes genuine: Commission
September 5, 2001
  • Use of women minor ethical transgression: Tejpal
August 26, 2001
  • CBI quizzes Tehelka reporter, suspended MHA official
August 25, 2001
  • 'I am uncomfortable with what happened'
• 'Assam story was an editorial mishap'
• Samata may file case against Tehelka
• Tehelka: So, what has changed now?
• Sacked Samata leader hits back at Tehelka
August 24, 2001
  • Vajpayee rejects demand for probe
• Delhi cops looking into use of call girls
• A general in the dock
• Assam minister serves notice to tehelka
• Fernandes seeks appointment with PM
August 23, 2001
  • Samata member offered call girls: Tejpal
• MoD to take action against tainted officers
• Prostitutes condemn their use by Tehelka
• Use of immoral measures unacceptable: Mahajan
• Jurists, journalists slam Tehelka, but oppose criminal action
• Samata demands security for sex workers
August 22, 2001
  • Tehelka expose: Armymen bribed with prostitutes
• Sex tapes creates ruckus in LS
• Armymen insisted on prostitutes: Tejpal
August 4, 2001
 

• IAF chief seeks delay of CDS setup

June 5, 2001
 

• Fernandes criticises Tehelka.com

May 26, 2001
 

• 3 defence ministry officials found guilty

May 25, 2001
 

• Bangaru, Jaitley, 23 others get notices

May 17, 2001
 

• Army inquiry finds prima facie proof against 5
• Venkataswami Commission to begin hearings in June

May 15, 2001
 

• CBI, RAW to be asked to help Tehelka probe

May 8, 2001
 

• Pak denies plotting to kill Tarun Tejpal

May 7, 2001
 

• ISI's new strategy: Let Indians Kill Indians

May 6, 2001
 

• Attempt to eliminate Tehelka chief foiled
• Attempt on Tejpal to discredit NDA govt: Police

May 2, 2001
 

• Defence probe panels to submit reports in May

May 1, 2001
 

• Another Tehelka-tainted Official Transferred

April 27, 2001
 

• N K Singh shifted to Planning Commission
• Cong stages walk-out in LS demanding JPC

April 26, 2001
 

• Parliament to adjourn sine die on Friday

April 25, 2001
 

• Venkataswamy issues notice to Tehelka

April 24, 2001
 

• Parliamentary détente helps both BJP and Congress
• Parliament normal after a month of chaos

April 21, 2001
 

• Bangaru Laxman not to campaign for assembly polls: PTI
• MPs urge PM ot revokae Mathew's suspension
• Press Council gives clean chit to Tehelka

April 18, 2001
 

• Cabinet clears Lokpal Bill

April 17, 2001
 

• Venkataswamy Commission may utilise agencies' services

April 10, 2001
 

• Venkataswamy Commission to be mostly public

April 5, 2001
 

• BJP having second thoughts about post-Tehelka rallies

April 4, 2001
 

• PM to address post-Tehelka rally in Bangalore on Thursday

April 3, 2001
 

• Murgai seeks more time to appear before CoI

April 1, 2001
 

• Acceptance of money 'indefensible indiscretion': Advani
• Samata minister files suit against Tehelka
• PIL seeks removal of Mishra from PMO

March 30, 2001
 

• Thomas Mathew is a man on the run

March 29, 2001
 

• 'They cannot even stop my increment'
• Home ministry may give Mathew some more time
• Mathew pleads for presidential intervention
• Congress demands answers from PM
• PM's ouster will only benefit Advani: Digvijay
• BJP's dalit leaders demand action against Shanta Kumar

March 28, 2001
 

• Mathew had links with Communists

March 27, 2001
 

• Union home ministry official Thomas Mathew suspended
• R K Jain retracts his Tehelka claims
• Govt plans defence scam's burial

March 26, 2001
 

• Murgai elusive but CoI grills his deputy
• Army inquiry summons Maj Gen Murgai
• Home ministry official served show cause notice

March 24, 2001
 

• Clean up PMO: Thackeray reiterates
• Minister threatens defamation suit against Tehelka
• Bangaru an innocent victim: BJP
• Krishnamurthy blasts Congress
• Justice Venkataswami to head Tehelka probe: PTI
• CVC recommends I-T raids on Tehelka accused: PTI

March 23, 2001
 

• BJP executive will back PM
• Delhi HC throws out PIL against Tehelka
• Advani rules out govt's resignation
• FIR against V George smacks of vendetta: Ramakrishna Hegde
• Parliament to reconvene on April 16

March 22, 2001
 

• Vajpayee woos NCP to replace Trinamul
• Defence ministry also orders inquiry
• Govt orders inquiry into official's role in Tehelka sting
• After RSS, SJM targets PMO
• Parliament adjourned for another day

March 21, 2001
 

• BJP dares Sonia to one-on-one TV debate
• CBI probing nine major defence deals concluded after 1989
• Naval chief defends Fernandes on Barak controversy
• Parliament continues to be in turmoil
• Parliament approves vote-on-account
• Armed forces will weather Tehelka: Naval Chief

March 20, 2001
 

• Operation Oust... what next?
• All defence deals are checked by CVC, says BJP
• Tejpal to appear before army's court of inquiry
• Sonia seeks time on DD
• Govt has done no wrong: Vajpayee
• Thackeray joins campaign against PMO: PTI
• Nitesh given additional charge of rlys: PTI
• LS passes vote-on-account
• 11 Goa Opposition members suspended
• Shankaracharya of Dwarkapeeth tells govt to step down over defence scandal

 

March 19, 2001
• The sting in sting operations
• BJP National Executive meet advanced to March 24
• Army court of inquiry begins proceedings in Tehelka case
• Govt may opt for vote-on-account if Parliament is stalled
• Gujarat governor's address disrupted, forced to leave House
• CJI turns down request for sitting judge for probe
• Congress vs NDA: Battle shifts to streets
• Parliament adjourned over tehelka tapes
• Sudarshan clarifies remarks on PMO

March 18, 2001
 

• Sonia Promises Plan to Dislodge NDA
• Jaswant Is New Defence Minister
• This is the time to strike, say Congressmen
• Sudarshan hits out at 'incompetent' PMO
• Senior army officers to depose in defence scam inquiry
• Hegde asks Fernandes to step down as NDA convenor
• NDA ready for a trial of strength: PM
• Congress will allow passage to vote-on-account in LS

March 17, 2001
 

• Vajpayee wants to protect Brajesh?
• Tejpal blames Brajesh for witch-hunt
• No probe into Tehelka finances: Govt/PTI
• Armed forces should improve standards: PM: PTI
• Expose a great service if charges are proved: Mahajan/PTI
• CPI-M blasts PM's speech: PTI
• Middlemen who had lost access were behind expose, says Fernandes
• Samata MPs adamant on quitting NDA ministry
• Fernandes knew about Jain's errant ways
• Laxman denies implicating Mishra and Bhattacharya: PTI
• Hopefuls eye vacant slot in NDA ministry
• Congress to oust government 'step by step'
• Sonia calls for government's resignation

March 16, 2001
 

• BJP links Tejpal to Arjun Singh
• Maharashtra legislature adjourned again
• Bangaru 'failed' us, says RSS; defends Vajpayee
• PM announces probe into defence scam
• The full text of the PM's speech
• Probe will also look at why the allegation was made
• NDA re-elects Fernandes as convenor
• Govt may seek confidence vote
• President accepts resignations of ministers
• Fernandes to get back defence after probe, says Mahajan
• Trinamul's pull out from NDA leaves BJP in West Bengal cold
• Impasse over continuance of other Samata ministers
• Trinamul's pull out from NDA leaves BJP in West Bengal cold
• Home ministry issuing legal notice to Tehelka's reporter
• Scam gives Congress a readymade agenda
• RSS says expose appears to be true, demands probe
• Fernandes not to persuade Mamata to reconsider her decision
• Samata will seek PM's clarification on Ranjan, Mishra
• No more Tehelka tapes, says Tejpal
• Parliamentarians almost come to blows, again
• After Trinamul, Congress wants other NDA allies to do a rethink
• Both houses of Parliament adjourned till Monday
• Government may order judicial inquiry
• Mehta denies taking gift, ordering evaluation of thermals

March 15, 2001
 

• 'I wish he had simply apologised'
• PM rejects Samata ministers' resignations
• Opposition calls for Maharashtra Government's dismissal
• Congress to decide strategy at AICC session
• Laxman should not have quit: C P Thakur
• RSS meet to discuss Tehelka expose
• Expose aimed at maligning govt: George
• Fernandes quits Cabinet
• Suspended Army officials put through lie-detector: PTI
• PM apprises President of crisis
• Jaya Jaitley quits as Samata chief
• Trinamul withdraws support to NDA govt
• No letting Fernandes go, PM tells Mamata
• NDA partners mount pressure for Fernandes's exit
• Police protection for Tehelka reporter in Kerala
• CVC may probe defence deals scam
• Parliament adjourned for the day
• Opposition, ruling MPs nearly come to blows outside Parliament
• 7 BJD MLAs seeks review of party support to NDA

March 14, 2001
 

• Guilty officers may face death penalty
• NDA tight-lipped on Mamata's demand
• Maj Gen Chaudhary accepts guilt
• Expose is a conspiracy: Krishnamurthy
• Army orders court of inquiry into scandal
• 'Second set of tapes contain damaging information'
• Cong activists attack BJP headquarters
• NDA allies rally around the prime minister
• Jana Krishnamurthy is BJP's acting president
• Mamta threatens to quit, seeks Fernandes's ouster
• Naidu calls for independent probe into expose
• We are ready for inquiry: PM
• Four defence officials suspended
• Parliament adjourned for the day over scandal
• Defence scandal has its echo in Maharashtra assembly
• NDA to meet over crisis, Laxman to attend
• Fernandes meets top defence officials
• BJP goes into a huddle ahead of Parliament meet
• BJP yet to decide on Laxman's resignation
• TDP will back govt stand, but ask for probe

March 13, 2001
 

• Tehelka lifts the lid off defence deals
• Bangaru Laxman resigns
• Oppn demands time-bound statement on bribes
• TDP, Trinamul to hear out Bangaru
• Who is Raj Kumar Gupta?
• 'For the country, there is now reason to worry'
• 'It is all in the tapes. How can they deny it?'
• 'We have been tense for two months'
• Joginder Singh too calls for probe

 • Defence sites
 • The new Private Eye

  Message Board
 • Your Take on the Scandal

  Specials
 • The Russian connection
 • The infamous case
    of INS Shakti
 • How a nation was looted
 • Report from Ground Zero
 • 'If this is what happens in
    fictitious deals, what could be
    happening in the real ones?'
    - Indira Jaisingh
 • 'George doesn't know
     how to give up'
 • Is the Net Tehelka's trump?
 • Defence agenda must not be
    affected at any cost
    - Colonel Anil Athale (retd)

  Chat
 • Aniruddha Bahal speaks
 • Jaya Jaitly defends herself
 • Tarun Tejpal on the Scandal

  Encounters
 • 'I want to commence my
   inquiry with an open mind'
   - Justice K Venkatswami
 • 'The BJP will continue as a
   lame-duck govt'
   - Pranab Mukherjee
 • 'The arithmetic is with Atalji'
   - Narendra Modi
 • 'Everybody in India collects
   political donations'
   - Arun Jaitley
 • 'Taxpayers are paying for these
   kickbacks from their pockets'
   - Jayant Malhoutra
 • 'No country can claim that
   defence deals are above board'
   - K Jana Krishnamurthy
 • 'The BJP is not
    like the Congress'
    - S Gurumurthy
 • 'I have no hand in
    any defence deal'
    - Bangaru Laxman
 • 'India's security has been
    compromised'
    - CVC N Vittal
 • 'George, not the type of
    minister to make money'
    - Pramod Mahajan
 • 'Where's the deal?'
    - Pramod Mahajan
 • 'I took the money for the party'
    - Bangaru Laxman
 • 'For the country, there is now
    reason to worry'
    - Lt Gen (retd) Satish
   Nambiar

 • 'We have been tense for
    two months'
    - Editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal
 • 'It is all in the tapes. How can
    they deny it?'
    - Aniruddha Bahal

  Commentary
 • Let the nation beware!
     - Arvind Lavakare
 • The emperor's new guns
     - Ashwin Mahesh
 • We, the suckers
     - Varsha Bhosle
 • An irreparably damaged PM
     - Brahma Chellaney
 • Should they first become
    conjurers and criminals?
     - Arvind Lavakare
 • Brajesh Mishra:
    Going, going... gone?
     - Capital Buzz
 • Is corruption endemic in
    India's defence forces?
     - Admiral J G Nadkarni (retd)
 • Clean up the mess
     - Sucheta Dalal
 • BJP: a bargain-basement
    Congress
     - Varsha Bhosle
 • Better sorry than safe
     - T V R Shenoy
 • Beware the Ides of March,
    George Fernandes
     - Rajeev Srinivasan
 • Tehelka or tera kya?
     - Admiral J G Nadkarni (retd)
 • Corruption Hurts
    the Services most!
    - Lt Gen Ashok Joshi (retd)
 • No questions please,
    Just pass the Blue Label
    - Dilip D'Souza
 • Kya mach gaya? Tehelka!
    - Varsha Bhosle
 • The defence budget:
    Lost opportunities
    - Admiral J G Nadkarni (retd)
 • Defending the middleman
    - Admiral J G Nadkarni (retd)

  Real Audio/Video
 • A B Vajpayee
 • George Fernandes
 • Bangaru Laxman
 • Jaya Jaitley
 • Raj Kumar Gupta
 • R K Jain

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