Whether it was scams or the threat of recession, the market survived everything with aplomb.
Former Telecom Minister A Raja, Dravid Munnetra Kazagham MP Kanimozhi and seven others, chargesheeted by the Enforcement Directorate in a 2G scam-related money laundering case, were on Wednesday granted bail by a special Central Bureau of Investigation court.
Central Bureau of Investigation Special Court Judge Shiv Pal Singh, hearing the case, was quick to reply, "Then play the tabla (musical instrument)".
The Congress president alleged that the surgical strike was made public as the BJP was fighting elections in Uttar Pradesh.
The Rajya Sabha MP, who is also a spokesperson of West Bengal's ruling party, was asked to appear before a CBI team in the first week of August, officials said on Friday.
'Badle ki bhavna (revengeful politics) was never seen in Maharashtra and Indian politics, but now we are witnessing all that today.'
A day before he committed suicide, former Corporate Affair DG B K Bansal had visited the Central Bureau of Investigation headquarters to submit Income Tax certificate showing that his son Yogesh had disclosed over Rs 2.38 crore of unaccounted income to tax authorities.
The Government of Dominica has told a court there to reject the habeas corpus petition filed on behalf of businessman Mehul Choksi who had claimed that he was abducted and forcefully brought to the Caribbean island nation, local media reported. The high court of Dominica ordered that the businessman be produced in a magistrate court to answer charges of his illegal entry into the country and adjourned the hearing on the habeas corpus petition till Thursday, according to local media. Rejecting the submission of Choksi who is wanted in India in an alleged Rs 13,500 crore loan fraud case in Punjab National Bank, the prosecution said the habeas corpus petition does not stand as he had illegally entered the country and was subsequently detained.
Chidambaram questioned the Narendra Modi government whether its demonetisation decision was designed to convert black money into white.
"When you tell one lie, you need to keep spinning out more lies, to cover up the first one. In her eagerness to defend the PM's Rafale lie, the RM lied to Parliament," Gandhi tweeted.
'We feel there is definitely something murky in the system.' 'Will anyone believe that Nirav Modi will go to a branch and bribe a low-level officer?' 'Just look at the people with whom he had moved around.'
In a swift operation, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday arrested its own Superintendent of Police, who was heading the Coalgate probe team, and an inspector for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 7 lakh from a businessman outside its headquarters in New Delhi to settle a land dispute.
A bill to raise the ceiling of gratuity for employees to Rs one million (Rs 10 lakh) from Rs 3,50,000 was passed by the Lok Sabha without discussion on Monday.
The Enforcement Directorate probing the multi-crore Saradha scam money trail today interrogated Rajya Sabha Trinamool Congress MP Ahmed Hassan Imran for the second time.
A new Congress leader may make an electoral impact by his very presence. Congress voters who had moved away from the party, after being influenced by the BJP's 'family rule' campaign, can now return with a certain moral satisfaction, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
The government auditor CAG had estimated a presumptive loss of up to Rs 1.76 lakh crore (Rs 1.76 trillion) because of sale of spectrum in 2008 at 2001 prices.
Devyani Khobragade, the Indian diplomat who is at the centre of a diplomatic row with the United States, is one of the 25 allottees who have been found ineligible to own a flat in the controversial Adarsh Housing society by a judicial panel which probed the scam.
The road show was the virtual launch of the Congress campaign for the assembly polls slated later this year, in which his party has the tough task of dislodging the Bharatiya Janata Party, which has been ruling the state for the last 15 years.
People elected me to fight corruption, I'm doing what they told me to do, Modi said.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday said it will continue to mount pressure to demand resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the government on the issue of CAG report on coal block allocation, in an indication that Parliament is likely to be stalled for the second successive day.
Former Union Minister and senior BJP leader Bandaru Dattatreya on Sunday said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should take 'moral responsibility' for wrongful loss to exchequer due to the coal scam.
The biggest thing that his party's government has done is to give the country a prime minister who speaks, says Amit Shah.
ICAI has also imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh on each of the three accused in Satyam case.
The court put various conditions on Khaitan, including that he will not tamper with the evidence or try to contact or influence the witnesses and join the investigation as and when called.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday said it won't hesitate to stall Parliament's forthcoming winter session it if it helps fill the government's coffers and fight corruption. BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy claimed that two years ago, by stalling the winter session of Parliament over the 2G spectrum scam issue, there had been a net benefit of Rs 2 lakh crore to the country.
Gandhi accused Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik of being remote-controlled by Modi
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has announced an inquiry into alleged irregularities in selection of candidates by the state public Service Commission for gazetted probationer posts.
Reacting sharply to Narendra Modi's barbs on the government over the coal controversy, Congress on Tuesday sought to turn the table on the Gujarat chief minister by reminding him of the graft allegations made against his government recently.
Wearing the bloodstained cap and badge -- evidence in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case -- on the day of his retirement was a cocktail of emotions, says IPS officer Prateep V Phillip, who survived the ghastly attack that killed the former Prime Minister in a 1991 election rally near here.
Rejecting Finance Minister P Chidambaram's zero-loss theory in coal allocation scam because no mining was done, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday said his view was akin to Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal's repudiation of CAG's estimation of presumptive loss in allocation of 2G spectrum.
Alleging that the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party were hand-in-glove on the coal block allocation issue, erstwhile Team Anna on Thursday announced gherao of the residences of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and BJP chief Nitin Gadkari on Sunday.
The Commission observed vulnerability of junior untrained staff on probation and their misuse by senior officials.
Shah said that the people of the country will decide about the principal opposition party to BJP in the 2024 polls and they have not given this label to any party.
The court asked them to furnish a bail bond of Rs 1 lakh with one surety of the like amount.
The Special Investigation Team probing the fake stamp paper racket had recently seized fake adhesive stamps worth Rs 72 lakh from the town.
'She is worried that the small fry have been caught, soon the big fish too will be caught.'
Mahto and Yadav, who were reportedly charged with minor offences, were claimed to be serving Lalu as helper and cook.
Subramanian Swamy said if income tax is abolished, middle class will deposit money in banks which can be invested in manufacturing.
He claimed 50 per cent of the country's black money was going to BJP's coffers.
The controversial Adarsh Society in South Mumbai on Tuesday moved the Bombay high court seeking de-freezing of its two bank accounts.
