Pawar 2g Scam

After he was granted emergency travel documents by UK officials, graft-tainted cricket boss Lalit Modi thanked a series of high-profile Indians in an email in August, last year.

Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has said the central government has not demonstrated the sort of leadership needed to handle the fallout of the telecom scam, reported to be India's largest swindle. Mr Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is a crucial partner in the UPA coalition.

Ajit Pawar, the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, has been accused of sanctioning a deal that reeks of a conflict of interest.  In the Maharashtra Assembly on Wednesday, the BJP provided documents that show that between 2007 and 2008 when Mr Pawar was Irrigation Minister, his department leased a whopping 17,700 square metres of land to a c...

Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has denied that he has any stake in or link to the real estate and telecom companies owned by Shahid Balwa, who is now in jail.  (Read: Who is Shahid Balwa?)Mr Pawar's statement comes after a newspaper reported that corporate lobbyist Niira Radia has told the CBI that while she has no documentary evidence to p...

The BJP whipped out another allegation today to suggest that Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar knew Shahid Balwa much better than he has acknowledged. Mr Balwa was arrested a few weeks ago for playing what the CBI believes was a central role in the 2G spectrum scam. As the promoter of Swan Telecom, he is accused of colluding with former Telecom Min...

The Maharashtra assembly today witnessed a furore after the Oppostion accused Union Agriculture Minister and International Cricket Council (ICC) president Sharad Pawar of having links with DB Realty promoter and 2G scam accused Shahid Balwa.Leader of Opposition Eknath Khadse from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alleged that NCP leaders including p...

It cost A Raja his job as Telecom Minister and escorted him to jail; its trail of illicit money has the CBI gearing up to question Kanimozhi, whose father  M Karunanidhi heads the DMK; and now, the investigation into the 2G spectrum scam is circling another political heavyweight - Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar.The Supreme Court is supervis...

As some of India's top industrialists like Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata and HDFC Chairman Deepak Parekh openly voice their fears of growth being hit by the prevailing atmosphere of negativity in the wake of the 2G spectrum scam and telephone tapping controversy, Union Minister and powerful ally of the Congress Sharad Pawar says the Prime Minister...

The government is now under increasing pressure from the Opposition, and apparently even some of its own allies for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the 2G spectrum scam.  Allies like Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress are now said to be keen on a JPC, though in a guarded approach Trinamool says it won't oppose the government...

The BJP has said the postponement of an emergency meeting called by the Congress to discuss the logjam in Parliament with its allies has exposed the cracks within the UPA. The party will continue to push for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the 2G spectrum scam till the government gives in, its spokesperson Tarun Vijay said. (Wat...

An emergency meeting called by the Congress to discuss the logjam in Parliament with its allies got called off a short while before it was to start on Monday night.The meeting was called after Parliament was adjourned for the 17th consecutive day over the Opposition's demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the 2G spectrum scam....

Amid the tape controversy, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Tuesday said the government should take note of Ratan Tata's statement that India risked turning into a 'banana republic'."When a person like him makes a statement, I think we should take him seriously," Pawar said on whether he had raised the issues taken up by the Tata group supremo ...

After he was granted emergency travel documents by UK officials, graft-tainted cricket boss Lalit Modi thanked a series of high-profile Indians in an email in August, last year.

Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has said the central government has not demonstrated the sort of leadership needed to handle the fallout of the telecom scam, reported to be India's largest swindle. Mr Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is a crucial partner in the UPA coalition.

Ajit Pawar, the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, has been accused of sanctioning a deal that reeks of a conflict of interest.  In the Maharashtra Assembly on Wednesday, the BJP provided documents that show that between 2007 and 2008 when Mr Pawar was Irrigation Minister, his department leased a whopping 17,700 square metres of land to a c...

Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has denied that he has any stake in or link to the real estate and telecom companies owned by Shahid Balwa, who is now in jail.  (Read: Who is Shahid Balwa?)Mr Pawar's statement comes after a newspaper reported that corporate lobbyist Niira Radia has told the CBI that while she has no documentary evidence to p...

The BJP whipped out another allegation today to suggest that Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar knew Shahid Balwa much better than he has acknowledged. Mr Balwa was arrested a few weeks ago for playing what the CBI believes was a central role in the 2G spectrum scam. As the promoter of Swan Telecom, he is accused of colluding with former Telecom Min...

The Maharashtra assembly today witnessed a furore after the Oppostion accused Union Agriculture Minister and International Cricket Council (ICC) president Sharad Pawar of having links with DB Realty promoter and 2G scam accused Shahid Balwa.Leader of Opposition Eknath Khadse from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alleged that NCP leaders including p...

It cost A Raja his job as Telecom Minister and escorted him to jail; its trail of illicit money has the CBI gearing up to question Kanimozhi, whose father  M Karunanidhi heads the DMK; and now, the investigation into the 2G spectrum scam is circling another political heavyweight - Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar.The Supreme Court is supervis...

As some of India's top industrialists like Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata and HDFC Chairman Deepak Parekh openly voice their fears of growth being hit by the prevailing atmosphere of negativity in the wake of the 2G spectrum scam and telephone tapping controversy, Union Minister and powerful ally of the Congress Sharad Pawar says the Prime Minister...

The government is now under increasing pressure from the Opposition, and apparently even some of its own allies for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the 2G spectrum scam.  Allies like Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress are now said to be keen on a JPC, though in a guarded approach Trinamool says it won't oppose the government...

The BJP has said the postponement of an emergency meeting called by the Congress to discuss the logjam in Parliament with its allies has exposed the cracks within the UPA. The party will continue to push for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the 2G spectrum scam till the government gives in, its spokesperson Tarun Vijay said. (Wat...

An emergency meeting called by the Congress to discuss the logjam in Parliament with its allies got called off a short while before it was to start on Monday night.The meeting was called after Parliament was adjourned for the 17th consecutive day over the Opposition's demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the 2G spectrum scam....

Amid the tape controversy, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Tuesday said the government should take note of Ratan Tata's statement that India risked turning into a 'banana republic'."When a person like him makes a statement, I think we should take him seriously," Pawar said on whether he had raised the issues taken up by the Tata group supremo ...