2g Controversy

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  PMO Officials Hid 2G Facts From Manmohan Singh, Says Court

  Senior officials at the office of then prime minister Manmohan Singh had "suppressed the most relevant and controversial part" of A Raja's letter and the then telecom minister "cannot be faulted" for misrepresenting the facts, a special court said on Thursday.

• PM Gets Acclaim and Blame; Nothing Personal Against Manmohan Singh, Says Former CAG Vinod Rai

  With his new book creating a major controversy, former CAG Vinod Rai on Tuesday said he has nothing personal against former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, but all the "acclaim and the blame" has to be taken by the head of the government.

• Prime Minister didn't know telecom policy, didn't take him for a ride: A Raja

  Former telecom minister A Raja, who is accused in the 2G spectrum scam, has said that he never took the Prime Minister for a ride. "He did not know the telecom policy," Mr Raja told NDTV amid a controversy over two books that imply that Manmohan Singh had no control over his ministers.

• Parliament Winter Session: Protests wash out first working day

  The Winter Session of Parliament had a stormy start with first working today being washed out due to protests over controversial 2G report of the JPC, death of children in Muzaffarnagar relief camps, price rise and Telangana.

• Parliamentary panel report on 2G tabled in Lok Sabha

  The controversial report of the JPC, which gave a clean chit to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the 2G spectrum scam saying he was "misled" by the then Telecom Minister A Raja, was today tabled in Lok Sabha amid pandemonium.

• 2G scam: Parliamentary panel clears PM, Chidambaram; 'black day', says Opposition

  The Joint Parliamentary Committee studying the 2G spectrum scam today adopted its controversial draft report that gives a clean chit to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram. Expectedly, a furious Opposition, led by the BJP, slammed the report, calling it a "black day for parliamentary committees".

• 2G case: Joint Parliamentary Committee's Monday meeting postponed

  The crucial sitting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee slated to be held on Monday to adopt its controversial draft report on 2G scam has been postponed in view of the National Integration Council (NIC) meeting.

• 2G scam: DMK demands examination of documents filed by the Department of Telecommunications

  In an apparent effort to delay adoption of the controversial Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) report which had indicted former Telecom Minister A Raja in 2G scam, DMK has demanded examination of documents the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had filed before courts and the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) while defending the spectrum ...

• The government's auditor (CAG) does not leak reports: Vinod Rai

  The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India, Vinod Rai, who retires tomorrow, dismissed charges that he was behind the leak of controversial audit reports on 2G spectrum and coal block allocations.

• Scrap all coal block allocations between 1993 and 2008, recommends parliamentary panel report: sources

  Parliament continues to witness fresh disruptions today as a united Opposition has upped the ante over the twin controversies of 2G and coal scam. And in what could provide it with fresh ammunition is a report by a standing committee on allocation of coal blocks that is expected to be tabled today. The report, sources say, is damning for the govern...

• 2G scam: In my defence, PM brought me back as Telecom Minister, says A Raja

  A Raja, former Telecom Minister and senior leader of the DMK, has submitted a detailed explanation of why he is incorrectly accused of masterminding one of India's biggest scams and "misleading the Prime Minister," a charge levelled in a controversial report by a parliamentary committee.

• Central Vigilance Commission to soon submit its report on 2G tape scandal to Supreme Court

  The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) will soon place before Supreme Court a status report on the investigation into the 2G scam and on a recent controversial audio tape on the alleged collusion between prosecution and an accused in the case.

• 2G scam: CBI says it doesn't know who taped conversations, or why

  The massive telecom or 2G scam has delivered a new and powerful installment of controversy - audio tapes have mysteriously surfaced of purported conversations between the CBI's prosecutor and one of the main suspects in the case, Sanjay Chandra, Managing Director of real estate major Unitech.

• New 2G controversy: Unitech shares crash 25%; DB Realty, RCom down too

  Shares in realty major Unitech declined as much as 25 per cent on Tuesday after its managing director Sanjay Chandra was embroiled in a fresh controversy. On Monday, investigating agency CBI removed its lawyer in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case for allegedly colluding with Mr Chandra, who is an accused in the scam.

• Press Note on 2G spectrum changed at the last minute: Attorney General GE Vahanvati

  The controversial press note regarding 2G licences was changed at the last minute by then Telecom Minister A Raja in 2008 with a different pen, former Solicitor General G E Vahanvati told the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on Tuesday, contending that his trust had been betrayed in the process.