NEW DELHI - Communications Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday said the methodology adopted by the official auditor was “utterly erroneous” while arriving at the estimate of $40 billion as the loss in awarding telecom airwaves in 2008.
NEW DELHI - Communications Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday said the methodology adopted by the official auditor was “utterly erroneous” while arriving at the estimate of $40 billion as the loss in awarding telecom airwaves in 2008.
GHAZIABAD - A special CBI court here adjourned hearing in the Aarushi murder case till Jan 21 and asked the probe agency to provide all documents, including its closure report, to the victim’s parents even as the CBI said her father Rajesh Talwar had no “locus standi” to argue.
LUCKNOW — Near-freezing temperatures have killed more than two dozen people in northern India in recent days despite government efforts to distribute blankets and medicine to the poor, an official and a news report said.
Kings XI Punjab co-owner and Bollywood star Priety Zinta said she was disappointed to lose all-rounder Irfan Pathan but glad to buy former Australian wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist in the first session of auction for the fourth leg of the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Saturday.
NEW DELHI - India’s ruling Congress party is losing voter support and would lose over 40 seats if an election were called tomorrow as billion dollar scams and corruption allegations take their toll, a poll showed.
Indian police said they had registered a case against the director-general of the Delhi Games, the most senior organiser of the tainted event named in a widening graft probe.
DEHRADUN — At least 22 people including six children were killed when their bus plunged into a gorge in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, a police officer said on Thursday.
NEW DELHI — India’s premier investigative agency again sought withdrawal of the case against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in the Bofors payoffs scam citing lack of evidence, even after a tax tribunal sensationally ruled that illegal commissions were indeed paid in the Rs15-billion gun deal of 1986. A Delhi lower court hearing the matter deferred the decision for Thursday after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and advocate Ajay Agarwal, who is challenging the CBI plea, made their observations.
LUCKNOW, India - Near-freezing temperatures and icy Himalayan winds have killed dozens of people in northern India over the past two weeks and forced schools to close in the capital, officials said Wednesday.
NEW DELHI — The top organiser of the Delhi Commonwealth Games attended a police station in the Indian capital on Wednesday for questioning in a probe into corruption in the October event.