Former finance minister and Congress leader P Chidambaram was on Wednesday night arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from his Jor Bagh residence in New Delhi, an hour after he made a dramatic appearance at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters.Dramatic scenes were witnessed on Wednesday night as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team scaled the wall of former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram’s house in Jor Bagh, minutes after he arrived from the Congress headquarters after addressing a press conference. A team of Enforcement Directorate (ED) also followed to arrest the senior Congress leader who was…
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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against senior journalist and co-founder of listed broadcaster New Delhi Television (NDTV) Prannoy Roy, his wife Radhika Roy and the compamy’s CEO and Director Vikramaditya Chandra for bringing tainted money of unidentified public servants through a web of complex transactions via the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) route. The probe agency in its FIR registered on Monday mentioned that NDTV Ltd through its promoters Prannoy Roy, Radhika Roy, K.V.L. Naryanan Rao (since expired) and Vikramaditya Chandra had entered into a criminal conspiracy with unidentified public servants for the purpose. The CBI…
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee may see red over ‘Jai Shri Ram chants, but one of her party MPs reminded Narendra Modi about the need for a temple in a housing complex here when the Prime Minister went to inaugurate the flats. Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Kalyan Banerjee said that while the new duplex flats were being built for MPs in North Avenue in Lutyens Delhi, he had suggested keeping a separate room as a ‘mandir’ to offer prayers. When Modi went to inaugurate the flats on Monday, Banerjee shook his hands and told him: “Ye mera suggestion…
The second Lunar orbit manoeuvre for Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was successfully completed on Wednesday, said India Space Research Organisation (ISRO). According to ISRO, the orbit manoeuvre began at 12.50 p.m. and took 1,228 seconds to complete. The orbit achieved is 118 km X 4,412 km. All spacecraft parameters are normal. The next Lunar bound orbit manoeuvre is scheduled on August 28, 2019 between 5.30 a.m. – 6.30 a.m. On Tuesday, the Chandrayaan-2 was put into its first Lunar orbit. On July 22, the Chandrayaan-2 was injected into an elliptical orbit of 170X45,475 km by India’s heavy lift rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch…
Former Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram’s son Karti Chidambaram bought a tennis club in Spain and cottages in Britain, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) claims. The land and tennis club in Spain’s Barcelona is slated to be worth Rs 15 crore, the ED says, adding that Karti Chidambaram has also bought property in India and overseas worth Rs 54 crore. The ED has reasons to believe the money with which they were purchased allegedly came from the bribe in INX Media deal, the case in which Chidambaram senior is embroiled and seeking exemption from arrest. The ED wants to take the…
Since the Delhi High Court’s rejection of the anticipatory bail plea of P. Chidambaram for alleged money laundering and corruption related to INX Media, the CBI and the ED are searching for the former Home and Finance Minister, trailing his last mobile phone location and using CCTV footage. The High Court passed the order on Tuesday, prompting Chidambaram, a Rajya Sabha member, to move the Supreme Court which will now hear the matter on Friday. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) have more than once visited the Congress leader’s Jor Bagh house in south Delhi…
Indian skipper ViratKohli is thoroughly enjoying the two-day break between the practice match and the two-match Test series and was seen at a party with his team and the support staff at the Jolly Beach in Antigua, where the West Indies will host India for the first contest. “Stunning day at the beach with the boys,” Kohli captioned a picture on Instagram. Teammates Mayank Agarwal, JaspritBumrah, Ishant Sharma, Rishabh Pant, AjinkyaRahane, Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul are also seen sharing the frame with the Indian run-machine. All the players along with support staff were seen having a good time at…
Bangladesh on Wednesday backed India on the Kashmir issue, saying that the abrogation of special status for Jammu and Kashmir is an internal issue of India. As Indian External Affairs Minister S.Jaishankar concluded his three-day visit to Dhaka, the Bangladesh Foreign Affairs Ministry, in a statement, also called for regional peace and stability. “Bangladesh maintains that the abrogation of Article 370 by the Indian government is an internal issue of India. Bangladesh has always advocated, as a matter of principle, that maintaining regional peace and stability as well as development should be a priority for all countries,” the statement said.…
Former Union Minister P. Chidambaram cannot leave the country. All aiports, immigration desks have been put on high alert. The development came as a Supreme Court bench headed by Justice N. V. Ramana on Wednesday refused to grant interim relief from arrest to the former Finance Minister and referred the matter to Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi for urgent hearing on his anticipatory bail plea in the INX Media case. Chidambaram’s lawyer said the lookout notice stems from political vendetta as the former Minister “is not a flight risk”. Already teams of the Central Burea of Investigation and Enforcement Directorate have…
An Indian-origin researcher at University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney has received $3.3 million grant to transform waste and resource recovery industry by developing advanced manufacturing capabilities that focus on small-scale processing of materials produced from battery and consumer wastes. Professor Veena Sahajwalla who is Founding Director of UNSW’s Centre for Sustainable Materials Research & Technology (SMaRT), will lead the research hub. Professor Rebecca Guy, an epidemiologist from the Kirby Institute and UNSW Medicine, will lead another research hub — awarded nearly $5 million — to develop an integrated diagnostic and pharmaceutical approach to antibiotic resistance, the university…