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The Congress’ recent electoral debacle in Bihar has further brought out the discord within the party with leaders now publicly hitting out at each other Earlier this week Mr Sibal, who was signatory to the August letter, spoke about the inability of the party to change. He said that it has been six long Read More…
[splco_heading size=”15″ align=”left” margin=”30″]Former union finance minister and Congress leader P Chidambaram lambasted Prime Minister Modi’s announcement of Rs 20 lakh crore stimulus package as a “headline and a blank page” on Wednesday. [/splco_heading] Chidambaram in his tweet retorted “Yesterday, PM gave us a headline and a blank page. Naturally, my reaction was a Read More…
Chidambaram, who was also the home minister during UPA 2, was sent to 14-day judicial custody on Thursday in the INX Media corruption case. The Congress leader was brought to the jail on Thursday evening and did not get much sleep, they said. The cell was prepared in advance, with the jail authorities Read More…
Former Finance Minister Chidambaram who got arrested last week alleged that the Enforcement Directorate’s note was “copy-pasted” by the Delhi High Court, which denied him anticipatory bail last week, calling him the “kingpin”. P Chidambaram also accused the Enforcement Directorate of leaking its document on charges against him to the media and blindsiding him Read More…
A report that showed higher GDP growth during the United Progressive Alliance’s tenure in government has been removed from the Statistics and Programme Implementation ministry’s website. The BJP government changed the base year for GDP calculation to 2010-11 from 2004-05 the benchmark used by the UPA. The back series GDP growth report extrapolated Read More…
The Supreme Court Wednesday allowed former Finance Minister P Chidambaram’s son Karti Chidambaram to travel abroad after depositing Rs 10 crore with its registry but asked him to cooperate with the probe in the INX Media and Aircel Maxis cases, saying “don’t play around with the law”. The apex court asked Karti to appear Read More…
The Madras high court on Saturday granted Nalini Chidambaram, wife of former finance minister P Chidambaram, interim protection from arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the Saradha chit fund case till she obtains an anticipatory bail from a jurisdictional court in West Bengal. Justice GK Illanthiraiyan passed the interim order at a Read More…
Former Union minister P Chidambaram arrived at the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office for questioning in the INX Media money laundering case on Wednesday, official sources said. They said the senior Congress leader was asked to depose before the investigating officer (IO) of the case to record his statement under the Prevention of Money Read More…
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday informed the Patiala House Court that it has been granted permission to prosecute former finance minister P Chidambaram in connection with the Aircel-Maxis case. Patiala House Court’s Special Judge OP Saini took up the Aircel-Maxis case, which arose out of the 2G spectrum allocation scam case. Read More…
Senior BJP leader and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj announced Tuesday that she will not contest the next Lok Sabha polls due to health reasons. The 66-year-old leader, who is serving her fourth term in the House and has long been her party’s most prominent woman face, told reporters, “It is the party which decides, Read More…
