Mallya In Parliament

Fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya, who is being investigated for fraud and money-laundering, called Prime Minister Narendra Modi an "eloquent speaker" and asked why he was not instructing banks to take the money he had offered to pay off the public funds.

The Winter Session of parliament beginning Tuesday is likely to witness a united opposition piling up pressure on the government over issues like the exit of the RBI Governor, rumblings in the CBI and Rafale deal, while parties like Shiv Sena are set to make a renewed pitch for Ram temple in Ayodhya.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday accused Congress president Rahul Gandhi of "concocting" falsehood and said he had never even seen fugitive jeweller Nirav Modi in person, let alone meeting him in parliament and helping him escape from the country.

After a Congress leader claimed that fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had a "15-minute sit-down meeting in parliament" a day before the fugitive tycoon's flight to the UK, BJP sources said the meeting could not have taken place because Mr Jaitley wasn't in parliament that long on that day in March 2016.

Fugitive tycoon Vijay Mallya and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley were witnessed by a Congress leader having a discussion in parliament, Rahul Gandhi alleged today. "Arun Jaitley is lying, Congress leader PL Puniya witnessed his meeting with Vijay Mallya," Rahul Gandhi said a day after the finance minister rubbished Vijay Mallya's claim that he had me...

Vijay Mallya, the fugitive billionaire wanted in India for defaulting on loan worth crores, said today that it is his democratic right to vote in Karnataka but he "cannot travel". The liquor baron was at a UK court today for the hearing on India's request for his extradition. He has argued against being dispatched to India on grounds that the jails...

The government has tabled a bill that seeks to confiscate all the assets of absconding fraudsters and loan defaulters for recovering dues from them.

The Rajya Sabha passed a new bankruptcy code on Wednesday, as the opposition swung behind measures to take tougher action against corporate defaulters and help banks recover over $120 billion (nearly Rs 8 lakh crore at $1 = Rs 66) in troubled loans.

Vijay Mallya, the businessman India termed a fugitive after defaulting on debt owed by his failed Kingfisher Airlines Ltd., said he is skeptical he will get a fair trial back home amid the "media frenzy and hysteria" over unpaid dues.

A year ago, the name Vijay Mallya evoked a response very different from what it does today in Parliament House.

Hours after he tweeted that he was no absconder, liquor baron Vijay Mallya received support from a former colleague in Parliament, Farooq Abdullah, who called him a "gentleman, not a crook".

After clashes in Parliament, a wordy duel was fought outside when Rahul Gandhi attacked the government asking, "How did they allow Vijay Mallya, who owes 9,000 crore to banks, to flee?"

Liquor baron Vijay Mallya's departure, possibly to the UK, in the middle of attempts to recover hundreds of crores in unpaid debts to banks, became a new point of conflict in Parliament today.

Kingfisher chief Vijay Mallya today said that the airline spoke to pilots and the matter was being sorted out.

Fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya, who is being investigated for fraud and money-laundering, called Prime Minister Narendra Modi an "eloquent speaker" and asked why he was not instructing banks to take the money he had offered to pay off the public funds.

The Winter Session of parliament beginning Tuesday is likely to witness a united opposition piling up pressure on the government over issues like the exit of the RBI Governor, rumblings in the CBI and Rafale deal, while parties like Shiv Sena are set to make a renewed pitch for Ram temple in Ayodhya.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday accused Congress president Rahul Gandhi of "concocting" falsehood and said he had never even seen fugitive jeweller Nirav Modi in person, let alone meeting him in parliament and helping him escape from the country.

After a Congress leader claimed that fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had a "15-minute sit-down meeting in parliament" a day before the fugitive tycoon's flight to the UK, BJP sources said the meeting could not have taken place because Mr Jaitley wasn't in parliament that long on that day in March 2016.

Fugitive tycoon Vijay Mallya and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley were witnessed by a Congress leader having a discussion in parliament, Rahul Gandhi alleged today. "Arun Jaitley is lying, Congress leader PL Puniya witnessed his meeting with Vijay Mallya," Rahul Gandhi said a day after the finance minister rubbished Vijay Mallya's claim that he had me...

Vijay Mallya, the fugitive billionaire wanted in India for defaulting on loan worth crores, said today that it is his democratic right to vote in Karnataka but he "cannot travel". The liquor baron was at a UK court today for the hearing on India's request for his extradition. He has argued against being dispatched to India on grounds that the jails...

The government has tabled a bill that seeks to confiscate all the assets of absconding fraudsters and loan defaulters for recovering dues from them.

The Rajya Sabha passed a new bankruptcy code on Wednesday, as the opposition swung behind measures to take tougher action against corporate defaulters and help banks recover over $120 billion (nearly Rs 8 lakh crore at $1 = Rs 66) in troubled loans.

Vijay Mallya, the businessman India termed a fugitive after defaulting on debt owed by his failed Kingfisher Airlines Ltd., said he is skeptical he will get a fair trial back home amid the "media frenzy and hysteria" over unpaid dues.

A year ago, the name Vijay Mallya evoked a response very different from what it does today in Parliament House.

Hours after he tweeted that he was no absconder, liquor baron Vijay Mallya received support from a former colleague in Parliament, Farooq Abdullah, who called him a "gentleman, not a crook".

After clashes in Parliament, a wordy duel was fought outside when Rahul Gandhi attacked the government asking, "How did they allow Vijay Mallya, who owes 9,000 crore to banks, to flee?"

Liquor baron Vijay Mallya's departure, possibly to the UK, in the middle of attempts to recover hundreds of crores in unpaid debts to banks, became a new point of conflict in Parliament today.

Kingfisher chief Vijay Mallya today said that the airline spoke to pilots and the matter was being sorted out.