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The Enforcement Directorate has registered a money laundering case against former Union Minister Dayanidhi Maran and his brother Kalanidhi in connection with the 2G spectrum allocation case.
Concerned over the high international roaming rates at a time when domestic rates have reached rock bottom, Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran asked worldwide GSM operators to bring down the roaming rates.
Hours after Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary J P Naddha demanded the resignation of Dayanidhi Maran from the Union Cabinet, Naddha dashed off a letter to Central Bureau of Investigation director A P Singh, asking him to investigate various allegations against Maran in respect to issuance of license to Aircel mobile company and his alleged role in the 2G spectrum scam.
Union IT and Communications Minister Dayanidhi Maran has sought fiscal incentives from the finance minister to increase broadband penetration in the country.
IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran on Friday launched the Web site of noted industrialist and Rajya Sabha member Anil Ambani who said it was an interactive forum where people can share with him their views on important issues.
After registering the case, the agency carried out searches at the premises of Maran brothers in Delhi and Chennai.
IBM Corp's CEO and Chairman Samuel J Palmisano today called on Communications and IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran to discuss company's plans in India.
Millions of mobile phone users would have wished Dayanidhi Maran stayed as telecom minister for at least a few more days as he was planning to abolish roaming charges on cell phones from June 3.
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, partner in the United Progressive Alliance government, has also adopted austerity as its slogan with its Union minister Dayanidhi Maran on Wednesday travelling by economy class of an Air India flight from Chennai to New Delhi
In order to increase teledensity, particularly in the rural areas, the telecom ministry is planning to put in place common facility, like towers, which could be shared by private players, Union Minister for Telecommunications and IT, Dayanidhi Maran
Tata Group Chief Ratan Tata met Communication and IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran on Wednesday and discussed wide ranging issues relating to spectrum policy and investments in the telecom sector.
The UPA government will work on creating one crore (10 million) new jobs in the textiles sector and attract an investment of Rs 1.55 lakh crore in the next five years, Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran said after taking charge.
The government is understood to have left it to the Central Bureau of Investigation and Joint Parliamentary Committee to look into the alleged irregularities in the grant of licences to Aircel, which is owned by Maxis Telecom of Malaysia, and the involvement of former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran in it.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has removed Union Fertiliser Minister M K Alagiri and Textile Minister Dayanidhi Maran from two key sub-committees of the Union Cabinet. Both Alagiri and Maran are leaders of the Congress's ally DMK. In the wake of the multi-crore 2G spectrum scam, involving DMK leader and then telecom minister A Raja, the PM has been careful about allocating sensitive positions to the party's leaders.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday rejected Home Minister P Chidambaram's 'self-certified' non-involvement in the 2G spectrum case and maintained that he should resign from the Union cabinet.
Senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan filed a fresh affidavit in the Supreme Court on Tuesday, stating that investigation into former textiles minister Dayanidhi Maran's role in the 2G spectrum scam has not been honestly conducted by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
Former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran may be 'examined' soon by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with his alleged role in coercing former Aircel Chief C Sivasankaran to sell his stake to a Malaysia-based group.
The Centre has drawn a national e-governance action plan covering all the three tiers of the government with the objective of 'turning the power of Indian information technology inwards' and transforming the country into one of the most competitive n
Former Aircel Chief C Sivasankaran has told the Central Bureau of Investigation that the then telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran and his brother Kalanidhi had allegedly issued life threats forcing him to sell his firm to a Malayasia-based tycoon, a charge rejected by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday told a Delhi court that a complaint seeking registration of case against the prime minister and former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran in the 2G spectrum scam does not require registration of any firszt information report.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday told a Delhi court that a complaint seeking registration of case against the prime minister and former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran in the 2G spectrum scam does not require registration of any firszt information report.
Low-cost computers, priced at Rs 10,000 per unit, would be launched across the country in June this year, in a move to make computers affordable to the rural masses, Union IT and Telecommunications Minister Dayanidhi Maran said on Friday.\n\n
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday demanded the resignation of Union Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran following reports that his family-owned Sun TV Network was a beneficiary of pay-offs by a Malaysian company, which benefited from equity sold by Aircel.
Undeterred by the growing pressure from the United States, the Centre on Wednesday said it would develop India as a 'global hub' to enable the country become a 'great IT nation.'
With Textile Minister Dayanidhi Maran coming under the Central Bureau of Investigation's scanner in the 2G scam, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday demanded that he should be dropped from the Union Cabinet immediately.
The textile ministry, in its Budget wish list, has recommended additional tax benefits and increased interest subsidy for exporters.
Telecom connections in the country were expected to reach 250 million by next year, Union Communication and IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran said on Monday.
To BSNL's detriment, Raja emerges the clear loser.
Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran said that free broadband service in India could soon become a reality. He also said that zero-rental landline phones too might soon see the light of day.
Bill Gates is on his fourth visit to India to strengthen focus and generate more demand for Microsoft products.
Sivasankran alleges Maran had forced him to sell Aircel.
The government said on Tuesday it was very clear in its stand imposing a penalty of Rs 150 crore (Rs 1.5 billion) on Reliance Infocomm for violating the licensing conditions by diverting international calls as local calls.
The government on Thursday unveiled its vision for the telecom sector up to 2010, listing plans to initially take total telephone connections to 250 million.
Union Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran has hailed the Budget proposals-2010-11 presented in Parliament on Friday. The minister said that these initiative for the textiles sector as a growth spurring initiatives , which dovetail with economic revival, infrastructure development, agriculture development, inclusive growth and restoring export growth.
His party colleague and successor in the telecom ministry A Raja and his relative Kanimozhi are currently in Tihar jail in connection with the scam.
Amid speculation of partial withdrawal of stimulus in the upcoming Union Budget, Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran on Tuesday pitched for continuation of these measures for the textile sector for some more time as it is yet to recover fully.
IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran on Monday took a dig at software major Microsoft saying the poor computer adoption in India was due to the 'high priced' software, while the MNC claimed that it has already reduced the price of one of its entry level opera
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