A Raja Raid

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  Tax Raids On TDP's Jayadev Galla, Andhra Candidate And Richest Lawmaker

  The Income Tax department, continuing with its pre-election raids, late on Tuesday night searched the offices of Galla Jayadev, Telugu Desam Party lawmaker and candidate for Lok Sabha polls from Andhra Pradesh's Guntur.

• BSNL-WiMax deal: CBI registers case, conducts raids

  The CBI has registered a fresh case in connection with alleged irregularities in awarding BSNL's Wimax franchise to a private firm, considered close to ex-Telecom Minister A Raja, and carried out searches across four cities.

• DVAC raids houses of former DMK minister

  Vigilance officials today conducted raids in the premises of former DMK minister N K K P Raja across Tamil Nadu in connection with a disproportionate assets case. The raids by officials of the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti Corruption were in progress in Chennai and Erode districts, DVAC sources said.

• Former DMK Minister N K K P Raja raided

  Vigilance officials today conducted raids on the premises of former DMK minister N K K P Raja across Tamil Nadu in connection with a disproportionate assets case.

• 2G spectrum scam: CBI raids DMK-owned Kalaignar TV office

  The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today raided the office of Kalaignar TV, a Chennai-based channel closely linked to the DMK, as part of its investigations into the 2G scam.  The raids were carried out at midnight and then at 5 am and are in connection with the money trail in the 2G scam. The CBI suspects that some amount of payoffs in...

• 2G scam: Raids won't affect Congress alliance, says Kanimozhi

  The DMK today stressed that the raids against some of its closest associates in connection with the 2G scam will not affect its alliance with the Congress. In Tamil Nadu, the Congress supports the DMK government; at the Centre, the DMK provides crucial 16 MPs to the UPA government. "This (the raids) is a process to show we are clean and DMK is...

• 2G spectrum scam: CBI raids Niira Radia, Pradip Baijal

  Barely a week after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raided the homes of A Raja, come new raids at the homes and offices of other alleged key players in the humongous 2G scam.  Topping the list of the big fish raided today are PR executive Niira Radia and Pradip Baijal, who served for three years as the Chairman of the Telecom Regulat...

• 2G spectrum scam: CBI raids residence of senior Tamil journalist

  The CBI today conducted raids at the residence of a senior Tamil journalist as part of its probe into 2G spectrum scam.A team of CBI officials from Delhi swooped down at the residence of Kamaraj, Associate Editor of Tamil magazine 'Nakkeran' this morning and conducted searches, official sources said.He is known to be close to DMK circles. The raids...

• Did A Raja force farmers to sell land?

  Seems like A Raja is the new controversy's child. Even as the heat over the 2G spectrum scam refuses to die, down South in Tamil Nadu's Perambalur, Raja has landed in some more trouble. Villagers of from his hometown are accusing Raja and his aides of land grabbing and threatening them.It is for a new factory by MRF, Green House promoters, in which...

• 2G spectrum scam: CBI takes raids to DMK's door

  The perfect storm of the 2G scam broke especially hard over Chennai on Wedenesday morning, as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted multiple raids at the homes and offices of those close to the senior-most leaders of Tamil Nadu's DMK party.The alliance was tested when A Raja was forced to exit as Telecom Minister last month - at that ...

• CBI seizes 3 diaries from A Raja's Delhi home

  Sources in the CBI say that during the raids at A Raja's home, they have seized three diaries, written in English, crammed with numbers that seem to indicate details of business transactions. (Read: Will aides nail Raja in CBI grilling?)Till last month, when he was forced to resign, Mr Raja was the Telecom Minister. Before that, he was the Environm...

• 2G spectrum scam: Will aides nail Raja in CBI grilling?

  The five aides of A Raja, who were raided by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday in connection with the 2G spectrum scam, face another round of grilling today. Will they nail the former Telecom Minister in what is said to be India's biggest scam ever?Sources have told NDTV that the investigation will speed up now and Raja could b...

• Raids on Raja and aides fail to calm Opposition rant

  With almost one full Parliament Session lost to disruptions, the government needed to prove it is tough on corruption. And the CBI raids on former Telecom Minister A Raja and his men were steps in that direction.But the raids failed to end the Opposition's chant for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe."The raids endorse what we have been sa...

• 2G spectrum scam: What about NDA regime, asks court

  The Supreme Court has said that the investigation into the 2G scam, being conducted by the CBI, must look into the events of 2001, when the BJP-led NDA coalition was in power. At that time, first-come-first-served was the accepted policy for allocating spectrum.The 2G scam was estimated at Rs 1.76 lakh crore by the government's auditor last month.&...

• Raids not enough, still want JPC: Opposition

  On a day when the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raided former Telecom Minister A Raja's residences, the Opposition heat over the demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the 2G spectrum allocation scam shut Parliament for the 19th working day.The Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were adjourned without transacting any significant...