Tehelka magazine said two years ago the German government had passed on the names and bank account details of 18 Indians who had invested their wealth in the LGT bank in Liechtenstein, a well-known tax haven.
Tehelka Editor Tarun Tejpal, arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman journalist, underwent a potency test which came out positive.
Special Judge I K Kochhar allowed regular bail to Laxman on furnishing a surety and personal bond of Rs 2 lakh.
The charge sheet against Tehelka founder editor Tarun Tejpal in connection with the sexual assault case would be filed by next week.
The two statements by Tehelka - one contradicting the other within a span a few hours - only confirms their status as family retainers of 10, Janpath, says JD(U).
Three other senior officers are facing trial in the case.
Justice S N Phukan Commission also refused to put on record Tehelkas paper on withdrawing from future proceedings.
The founder and former editor of Tehelka pleaded not guilty to the rape charge.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday lashed out at the Congress, saying a Union cabinet minister is "shielding" Tehelka Editor Tarun Tejpal, who is accused of sexually assaulting his junior.
'I shall hear them in person if they cannot appoint a counsel. Or through a counsel,' he said.
A defence ministry official, who was accused of taking Rs 10,000 as bribe to favour a fictitious private firm in a defence deal sting, has been acquitted by a Delhi court which said no criminal liability can be imputed to him.
Tehelka Editor Tarun Tejpal, accused of sexual assaulting a woman journalist, is sticking to his version that whatever happened between the two was a "consensual act", a police officer said on Thursday.
PM said the UPA govt is not acting in a vindictive manner.
"In my opinion, there is nothing to indicate the tapes supplied to me by the Commission are not the camera originals made at the time of the incidents depicted," said London-based expert Mathew James Cass.
Goa police are expected to sum up their investigations in the sexual assault case allegedly involving Tehelka founder editor Tarun Tejpal and file a charge sheet by this month end, an official said on Sunday.
Rejecting Bharatiya Janata Party's charge that he was shielding Tarun Tejpal, Union Minister Kapil Sibal on Thursday said law must take its course in the sexual assault case against the Tehelka editor and if he is guilty, he should be punished.
Congress strategists are worried that if it focuses too much on the Tehelka issue, it could end up diluting its ongoing campaign against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on the snooping allegations. Anita Katyal reports
The former woman journalist with Tehelka, who has accused the magazine's founder editor Tarun Tejpal of sexually assaulting her, has complained to the Goa police that a "systematic and virulent campaign" has been launched to falsify facts and the truth in the case.
Former Tehelka managing editor Shoma Chaudhury and three other witnesses have been summoned by the Goa police to record their statement before a magistrate in the case of alleged sexual assault against the magazine's editor Tarun Tejpal.
Jaitly flayed the Nobel laureate for expressing disappointment on Tehelkas treatment and said he should not play politics on behalf of the website.
"I do not think there is any need for a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the expose as demanded by many political parties, Tehelka Managing Editor Tarun Tejpal said.
The Delhi high court on Monday refused to quash criminal proceedings against former Bharatiya Janata Party president Bangaru Laxman who was purportedly caught on camera accepting money from fictitious arms dealers in the infamous Tehelka expose.
The chargesheet was filed against Lt Col (retired) V P Sayal and sacked Brig Iqbal Singh.
She is understood to have told the agency that she vaguely remembered someone approaching her for party donations, CBI sources said.
The Armed Forces Tribunal has given a go-ahead for court martial against a former Major General who was allegedly caught on-camera taking bribe in the 2001 Tehelka sting operation and pulled up the Army for delaying the matter for so long.
Chowdhary, an accused in the Tehelka expose, had challenged the General Court Martial order, which had sentenced him to one-year imprisonment for accepting bribe.
The Congress Party said it is ready to lift its boycott of Defence Minister George Fernandes in Parliament if there was 'full-fledged' discussion.
Metropolitan Magistrate Gulshan Kumar fixed April 14 for further hearing.
Justice S N Phukan, who hails from Assam, would replace Justice K Venkataswamy, who resigned in the wake of a controversy over his simultaneous appointment as chairman of Authority on Advance Rulings on Customs and Excise.
The ban on television channels is limited to Ahmedabad district while no other collector has taken such step, the sources informed.
A Delhi court on Tuesday acquitted five people who were arrested for allegedly plotting to kill Tehelka magazine scribes Tarun Tejpal and Anirudh Bahl in May 2001.
By polarising the Hindu vote, the expose might help the BJP and Modi, but in the long run, it will dent Modi's credibility.
Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal, accused of sexually assaulting a woman journalist, on Thursday filed an application before a local court demanding an in-camera hearing of his bail petition.
Jain was picked up in the national capital and placed under arrest after brief questioning, CBI sources said.
'I never fought with anyone.' 'I was not rude to anyone. 'I did not argue with anyone.' 'I did not misbehave with any girl.' 'The only person I did not get along was Abhishek.'
He is the third army personnel to be convicted by the army court in the Tehelka case.
A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs presided over by the PM on Wednesday, sources said.
The order was passed in view of the 'serious doubts' raised over their authenticity.
A coalition of Indian-American organisations, the Indian National Overseas Congress and the Indian Muslim Council-USA have demanded action against the people who admitted on tape to participating in the post-Godhra massacre.
