Telecom Minister Resigns
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World view: Unlikely person at the heart of India's graft scandal
He was a small-town lawyer from a regional political party in a southern Indian state. By almost any measure, Andimuthu Raja, who had no background in telecommunications or in business, seemed an unlikely candidate to be the government minister presiding over the fastest-growing cellphone market in the world. But he had the only qualification that ...
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In resignation, Karunanidhi stands by Raja
Putting up a brave front, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Sunday night said Union Telecom Minister A Raja was asked to resign by DMK only to allow functioning of Parliament, maintaining that he had only followed the policy adopted from 1999 in spectrum allocation. "We have asked Raja to resign only to allow the functioning of...
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Resigned to avoid embarrassment to Govt: Raja
Yielding to relentless opposition pressure, Telecom Minister A Raja resigned tonight in the wake of the 2G Spectrum allocation scam.47-year-old Raja met Karunanidhi in Chennai twice in the last 24 hours, before flying back to Delhi and went straight to the Prime Minister's 7, Race Course Road residence to handover his resignation letter. (Read: W...
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World view: Unlikely person at the heart of India's graft scandal
He was a small-town lawyer from a regional political party in a southern Indian state. By almost any measure, Andimuthu Raja, who had no background in telecommunications or in business, seemed an unlikely candidate to be the government minister presiding over the fastest-growing cellphone market in the world. But he had the only qualification that ...
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In resignation, Karunanidhi stands by Raja
Putting up a brave front, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Sunday night said Union Telecom Minister A Raja was asked to resign by DMK only to allow functioning of Parliament, maintaining that he had only followed the policy adopted from 1999 in spectrum allocation. "We have asked Raja to resign only to allow the functioning of...
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Resigned to avoid embarrassment to Govt: Raja
Yielding to relentless opposition pressure, Telecom Minister A Raja resigned tonight in the wake of the 2G Spectrum allocation scam.47-year-old Raja met Karunanidhi in Chennai twice in the last 24 hours, before flying back to Delhi and went straight to the Prime Minister's 7, Race Course Road residence to handover his resignation letter. (Read: W...
