New Delhi : The Delhi High Court on Thursday directed the AIIMS director to constitute a medical board today itself to give opinion on the health of former finance minister P Chidambaram, who is suffering from Crohn’s disease. The high court said Hyderabad-based gastroenterologist Nageshwara Redybe included in the board to give his opinion on […]

New Delhi : Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday moved the Delhi High Court seeking bail in the INX Media money laundering case. Chidambaram, who was on Tuesday granted bail from Supreme Court in the INX media corruption case, continues to be in ED custody since October 17. He was arrested by the CBI […]

New Delhi : A Delhi court Thursday extended till October 17 the judicial custody of former finance minister P Chidambaram in the INX Media corruption case. Special judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar sent the veteran Congress leader to judicial custody till October 17 after the CBI sought extension of his judicial remand. The 74-year old sought […]

New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to intervene against a Delhi High Court order to protect former Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram from arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) probing money laundering charges against him in the INX Media case. In a short order, a Bench of Justices R. Banumathi and A.S. Bopanna […]

New Delhi: Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Friday said that India should have supported the United Nations resolution on Sri Lanka, which calls for an international investigation into alleged war crimes in the final stage of the island’s civil war that ended in 2009. “Personally, I feel India should have supported the UN resolution […]

New Delhi: Hitting out at critics of UPA’s management of economy, Finance Minister P Chidambaram today said the government has “pulled back” the economy from a difficult situation and put it back on a high growth path. Rejecting description of his interim Budget as populist, he said over the last couple of years the government […]

New Delhi: With the general elections due in a couple of months, union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram tried to endear himself to the families that have availed of educational loans from banks. Presenting the interim budget for 2014-15 in the Lok Sabha Monday, Chidambaram announced a moratorium period for all education loans taken up to […]

New Delhi : The Group of Ministers (GoM), which was set up on Tuesday to look into the tough law against rape and other crimes, is likely to finalise its report on Wednesday and send it to the Union Cabinet for consideration on Thursday. In the backdrop of persisting differences in the Cabinet, the GoM […]

Mangalore: A delegation from the state recently met Union Finance Minister Chidambaram and briefed him on the problems being confronted by areca growers in Karnataka. The delegation comprising Shashidar Shetty, leader of Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha, social activist Vidya Dinker, Union Corporate Affairs Minister Veerappa Moily, Oscar Fernandes and Jayaprakash Hegde, MPs, also apprised the […]

Hubli  : BJP General Secretary H N Ananth Kumar today demanded that Union Home Minister P Chidambaram must resign following the allegations against him in 2G Spectrum scam. Speaking to reporters here on his way to Koppal in north Karnataka, he said since the Home Minister was facing direct allegations about his involvement in scam, […]