The withdrawal of the two Supreme Court judges hearing the Kanimozhi bail plea has once again raised questions about the safety of senior judges who deal with ultra-sensitive cases. The two judges, Justices P Sathasivam and AK Patnaik, withdrew themselves from the case just one working day before Kanimozhi’s bail plea was supposed to be […]
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 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 […]
Petroleum minister Jaipal Reddy has said that the file of the Cairn-Vedanta deal has been sent to the Cabinet for approval. “The group of ministers have given their recommendation.. What the recommendation is, I cannot tell you. But it has been sent to the Cabinet for its final decision.. It has gone to the Cabinet,” […]
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 […]
Salman Khurshid, current water resources minister and the former minister in charge of corporate (company) affairs, has denied that his former ministry gave a clearance to Loop Telecom and Essar over the violation of telecom ownership rules. His clarification has come in the wake of Loop Telecom, one of the firms being probed by the […]
An improvised explosive device, a sort of a crude bomb, has been found in the Kanchenjunga Express at the Guwahati railway station in Assam. Police described the device as “powerful” programmable timer device, planted inside a tiffin carrier. The police have disabled the bomb. The bomb was found at the peak hour on the station. […]
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 […]
Finally, the grand-daddy of mobiles phones for Indians, Nokia, has come out with a phone that will have even the staunchest Galaxy or iPhone fan skip a heart-beat. The N9 is undoubtedly Nokia’s best phone to-date and suddenly catapults it into the league of big-screen phone makers like Samsung, HTC and Apple that ‘have it.’ […]
Former Water Resources minister and Congress leader Saifuddin Soz has urged the Government of India to push for a joint committee to the activities on the Chinese section of the Brahmaputra. Soz said that he has noted the assurance of the foreign minister SM Krishna on the matter, but would still prefer to have a […]
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 […]
Nokia, the Finnish mobile phone brand that enjoys tremendous brand value in India, may finally be getting its act together in the mid-range. The company today remains unassailable only in the low-range, and has seen its share of the market relentlessly chopped away in both the mid-range and the high-end of India’s mobile phone market. […]
India Against Corruption, the umbrella body led by Anna Hazare fighting for the creation of a strong Lokpal, has called the current controversy over the inclusion of the Prime Minister under Lokpal authority a diversionary tactic and a trap. The organization, on its facebook page, called it a red herring — a diversionary tactic used […]
Some Asian countries seem to have left the Western countries in terms of smartphone adoption, according to the latest numbers from Canalys — a digital market research agency. The numbers revealed that a whopping 61% of all phone sold in Singapore last year were ‘smartphones’. And just in case you were wondering if these were […]
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 Delhi police, which had been given a time of two weeks by the Supreme Court to explain its midnight action against supporters of Yoga guru Baba Ramdev, has claimed that it was not a lathi-charge. The Delhi Police, which reports directly to the Union Home Ministry under P Chidambaram, will submit its response to […]
A US diplomatic cable written two years ago has revealed how the Left parties, which opposed the Indo-US civil nuclear deal tooth and nail, were the most aggressive when it came to enjoying the fruits of that agreement. The alliance between the Congress party and the Left parties (which were supporting the UPA at that […]
The Enforcement Directorate — in charge of hunting down tax evaders and money launderers — has filed a case against former Prasar Bharti CEO BS Lalli. The Case has been filed under the Anti-Money Laundering Act. Lalli was put under the lens after the Prime Minister’s office issued an order to the effect in February […]
Government raids have exposed the continuing sale of banned drugs such as Rosiglitazone, Gatifloxacin and Tegaserod in hospitals and stores in Delhi. In a statement, the Office of Drugs Controller General of India said the raids were conducted in 130 hospitals and medical stores — without specifying the names of the Hospitals. Alarmingly, in more […]
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 […]
