The phone hacking scandal claimed its biggest scalp yesterday when James Murdoch quit as executive chairman of News International.
The 39-year-old, who was once regarded as automatic heir to his father Rupert’s media empire, has cut ties with Britain and its newspapers.
Parent company News Corporation said the move would enable him to focus on expanding its [...]
Mamata Banerjee took one of her trademark U-turns on Monday when she reportedly held the Kolkata Police responsible for the “inefficient handling” of the Park Street rape case.
Earlier, the West Bengal chief minister had shocked everyone by claiming that the rape of a mother of two was a conspiracy cooked up to malign the image [...]
The West Bengal government has a lot to answer in the Park Street rape case after Kolkata police who had earlier ridiculed her, are now saying that CCTV camera footage shows the victim was indeed telling the truth. The victim of the brutal rape was first mocked by the police, even the Chief Minister rubbished [...]
A Bengali actress and fiancee of Kader Khan, the prime accused in the alleged rape of an Anglo-Indian woman in Kolkata earlier this month, said on Tuesday she would help police in bringing the guilty to justice.
“I don’t know if rape was committed but if it has been, then whoever has done it deserves to [...]
The Supreme Court ruled last month that the country’s tax office had no jurisdiction to tax Vodafone’s $11 billion deal in 2007 to buy Hutchison Whampoa’s Indian mobile business, in a huge relief to the British group fighting a legal battle for five years.
Vodafone, the world’s biggest mobile phone carrier by revenue, said in a [...]
Over 48 hours since two Indian fishermen were killed allegedly by the crew members of Italian ship Enrica Lexie, no arrests have been made despite orders from the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Sources have told CNN-IBN that the Prime Minister will now be consulted as this was a diplomatic matter. PMO sources say that by Saturday [...]
The decision has not always been this hard. Last year, Beenish had no qualms about hosting the service providers in her home to perform the simple procedure.
But now she is gripped with anxiety about the potentially harmful nature of the vaccine.
Her fears are not unfounded.
Lahore, the capital of Pakistan’s populous Punjab province, [...]
Before dawn every day he joins hundreds of wholesale traders at Delhi’s Azadpur Mandi, a sprawling, chaotic market where trucks blare Bollywood music, porters haul huge brown sacks of fruit and vegetables and hawkers ply tea and cigarettes.
His own trade is in rosy red apples, laced with calcium carbide.
Bhim says he’s been adding chemicals to [...]
Shamed by the porngate scandal, the BJP is looking at ideas to save some face and mitigate the impact of the embarrassing incident. As a measure of damage-control, the ruling party has launched an offensive against Opposition parties.
Besides, the BJP’s Surathkal wing (Mangalore North constituency) has started a drive ‘Palemar Abhimani Balaga’ for Krishna Palemar [...]
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s “stinking record” in corruption was unbeatable, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani said in New Delhi on Wednesday while listing the “10 murkiest matters that come to mind”.
Advani, who blamed Congress chief Sonia Gandhi along with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, also praised Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy in [...]
The court dismissed a petition accusing Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram of signing off on the sale of telecoms licenses at below-market prices that may have cost the government up to $36 billion in lost revenues.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Congress party, struggling against repeated accusations of graft and incompetence, faces elections starting next week in a [...]
Norwegian telecom firm Telenor could quit India now after the Supreme Court revoked its mobile licences and not wait for new market rules to be introduced, the company’s chief executive told.
Supreme Court on Thursday revoked 122 telecoms licences issued under a scandal-tainted 2008 sale, including 22 licences Telenor holds via Uninor, a joint venture with [...]
A Delhi court handling the 2G spectrum allocation scam trial is likely to decide on Saturday whether Union Home minister P Chidambaram should be made a co-accused in the swindle for allegedly allowing former Telecom Minister A Raja to gift mobile network licenses and scarce second-generation or 2G spectrum at prices that were staggeringly low.
In [...]
India’s top court ordered the government on Thursday to cancel 122 cellphone licenses granted to companies during an irregular sale of spectrum that has been branded one of the largest scandals in India’s history.
The verdict will likely disrupt the country’s massive cellphone market and is a further embarrassment for the scandal-riddled government of Prime Minister [...]
India’s Supreme Court ordered on Thursday telecoms licences issued under a scandal-tainted 2008 sale be revoked, striking a decisive blow against corruption that plagues the country and roiling the world’s second biggest cellular market.
The ruling applies to 122 licences held by eight operators including Norway’s state-backed Telenor which said it may quit India rather than [...]
A top bureaucrat was arrested in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad for alleged financial irregularities linked to a real estate development by Dubai-based Emaar Properties PJSC, news reports said Tuesday.
BP Acharya, home secretary of Andhra Pradesh state, was arrested by federal investigators Monday. He was managing director of the state-run Andhra Pradesh Industrial Development [...]
The new policy says price of spectrum will be decided by auctions, but allows sharing of 2G spectrum and “refarming” (reallocation) of spectrum in the 800 and 900 Mhz bands.
Currently, licences to provide telecom services come with 4.4 MHz of start-up spectrum. Licences are issued on a first-come first-served basis and the operators have to [...]
Rebels shot dead five people at a polling station in India’s northeast on Saturday as voting began in the first of five local elections seen as a popularity test for the national Congress government.
The separatist rebels sprayed the voting booth with bullets, killing three election officials, a paramilitary trooper and a civilian in Thangpi, a [...]
Will 2012 prove to be a year of renewal for India, or another annus horribilis? No country progresses unerringly, but India cannot afford another politically and economically torpid year like 2011. For India, last year is a year best forgotten.
India has been so deeply mired in political paralysis that the Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen [...]
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India’s wave of corruption scandals claimed its most respected casualty on Wednesday when the country’s top space scientist [...]
Politicians are extraordinary people. Thus they are beyond many rules which apply to ordinary people. For example, a stint in jail is personally shameful and socially disastrous to the common man. It could mean a permanent blot on the reputation of the victim’s family and lead to his ostracisation from the immediate society. More than [...]
The news blowing in from across the Atlantic, as often happens these days, brought the smell of disaster like an approaching hurricane. The credit scores of France and eight other European countries had just been knocked down. Negotiations to bail out an all-but-bankrupt Greece had stalled, or died—it wasn’t clear which.
Christine Lagarde, the former French [...]
Faced with a failing government mired in corruption scandals, and struggling to take any action to correct a listing economy, India’s opposition Bharatiya Janata party should be preparing for power.
Instead the Hindu nationalist party, which began life appealing to the rising middle class, will go into state elections next month in March with opinion polls [...]
The high court in the Indian capital, Delhi, has granted bail to Suresh Kalmadi, the disgraced former chief of the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
Mr Kalmadi has been in jail since April. He is accused of conspiracy regarding the awarding of commercial contracts for the Games.
He denies any wrongdoing. The build-up to the Games was marred by [...]
The countdown to ring out 2011 has begun and What a Year it has been….we won the Cricket World Cup, we had scandals after scandal in politics, a new leader emerged in form of Anna, and Aiswarya Rai Bachchan, along with the nation, welcomed Beti B had. Whichever way you see, you will agree that [...]
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