2g Issue

The Public Accounts Committee or PAC, one of the most important parliamentary panels which scrutinises key reports by the auditor general and has taken up issues like the 2G spectrum scandal in the past, failed to arrive at a consensus on Friday on examining the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic or the new PM CARES fund set up to tackl...

The Jammu and Kashmir administration issued orders to partially allow 2G mobile connectivity on postpaid mobiles in the Union Territory from January 15 for accessing white-listed sites in five districts of Jammu region-- Jammu, Samba, Kathua, Udhampur and Reasi.

Taking a dig at DMK over the issue of corruption, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami on Monday raked up the 2G spectrum scam and said the appeal against acquittal of former Telecom Minister A Raja and others was pending and they "will get what they deserve."

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today rejected the demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to look into the Rafale jet deal, saying it is unlike the 2G Spectrum or Bofors issues where aspects like the money trail surfaced.

The Supreme Court today said issues related to the 2G spectrum case were "highly sensitive" and no officer investigating the matter should be "under any cloud" on a petition against an Enforcement Directorate (ED) officer probing the Aircel-Maxis case.

The CBI told Delhi High Court that the trial court had failed to appreciate the evidence which proved that the accused had hatched a conspiracy to cheat the DoT for obtaining spectrum licence.

The Delhi High Court today issued a notice to former telecom minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and others on a plea of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) challenging their acquittal in a money laundering case arising out of the 2G scam.

The government has appointed additional solicitor general Tushar Mehta as special public prosecutor in the 2G spectrum case. But a gazette notification to this effect issued by the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions makes no mention of Anand Grover who was appointed the lead prosecutor in the case by the Supreme Court in 2014.

Trai on Tuesday granted one more month to customers of Reliance Communications to port out of the network of the company, which stopped its 2G services last month.

Ashok Chavan, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, will not be prosecuted in the Adarsh housing scam in Mumbai, the High Court said today, setting aside the governor's sanction to act against the Congress leader. This is the second setback in two days for the CBI, which was yesterday told by a special court that it had failed to prove the "2G scam...

A day after a special court said there was no proof of a scam in the allocation of 2G spectrum licences in 2007-8 when the Congress was in power and A Raja was Telecom Minister, a Supreme Court judge who had scrapped 122 licences allocated by Mr Raja calling them illegal, has set the record straight.

A court in New Delhi on Wednesday fixed December 19 for delivering order on the issue of framing charges in Aircel-Maxis deal case against former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran and others.

A special 2G court today issued open arrest warrants against Malaysian nationals T Ananda Krishnan and Augustus Ralph Marshall, who are accused in Aircel-Maxis deal case along with former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran and his brother Kalanithi Maran.

The Aircel-Maxis deal "fairly and squarely falls within the description of 2G scam", a special court on Saturday said while holding that it has the jurisdiction to try the matter against former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran, his brother Kalanithi Maran.

ED has issued summons to Karti Chidambaram, son of former Finance Minister P Chidamabram, in connection with its money laundering probe in the Aircel-Maxis deal of the 2G scam.

The Public Accounts Committee or PAC, one of the most important parliamentary panels which scrutinises key reports by the auditor general and has taken up issues like the 2G spectrum scandal in the past, failed to arrive at a consensus on Friday on examining the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic or the new PM CARES fund set up to tackl...

The Jammu and Kashmir administration issued orders to partially allow 2G mobile connectivity on postpaid mobiles in the Union Territory from January 15 for accessing white-listed sites in five districts of Jammu region-- Jammu, Samba, Kathua, Udhampur and Reasi.

Taking a dig at DMK over the issue of corruption, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami on Monday raked up the 2G spectrum scam and said the appeal against acquittal of former Telecom Minister A Raja and others was pending and they "will get what they deserve."

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today rejected the demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to look into the Rafale jet deal, saying it is unlike the 2G Spectrum or Bofors issues where aspects like the money trail surfaced.

The Supreme Court today said issues related to the 2G spectrum case were "highly sensitive" and no officer investigating the matter should be "under any cloud" on a petition against an Enforcement Directorate (ED) officer probing the Aircel-Maxis case.

The CBI told Delhi High Court that the trial court had failed to appreciate the evidence which proved that the accused had hatched a conspiracy to cheat the DoT for obtaining spectrum licence.

The Delhi High Court today issued a notice to former telecom minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and others on a plea of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) challenging their acquittal in a money laundering case arising out of the 2G scam.

The government has appointed additional solicitor general Tushar Mehta as special public prosecutor in the 2G spectrum case. But a gazette notification to this effect issued by the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions makes no mention of Anand Grover who was appointed the lead prosecutor in the case by the Supreme Court in 2014.

Trai on Tuesday granted one more month to customers of Reliance Communications to port out of the network of the company, which stopped its 2G services last month.

Ashok Chavan, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, will not be prosecuted in the Adarsh housing scam in Mumbai, the High Court said today, setting aside the governor's sanction to act against the Congress leader. This is the second setback in two days for the CBI, which was yesterday told by a special court that it had failed to prove the "2G scam...

A day after a special court said there was no proof of a scam in the allocation of 2G spectrum licences in 2007-8 when the Congress was in power and A Raja was Telecom Minister, a Supreme Court judge who had scrapped 122 licences allocated by Mr Raja calling them illegal, has set the record straight.

A court in New Delhi on Wednesday fixed December 19 for delivering order on the issue of framing charges in Aircel-Maxis deal case against former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran and others.

A special 2G court today issued open arrest warrants against Malaysian nationals T Ananda Krishnan and Augustus Ralph Marshall, who are accused in Aircel-Maxis deal case along with former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran and his brother Kalanithi Maran.

The Aircel-Maxis deal "fairly and squarely falls within the description of 2G scam", a special court on Saturday said while holding that it has the jurisdiction to try the matter against former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran, his brother Kalanithi Maran.

ED has issued summons to Karti Chidambaram, son of former Finance Minister P Chidamabram, in connection with its money laundering probe in the Aircel-Maxis deal of the 2G scam.