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Bangalore, November 9: Anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal revealed names of a few Swiss bank account holders from India on Friday. In a press note he alleged that in July 2011, Indian Government received a list of 700 people having bank accounts in HSBC, Geneva. The list contained the bank balances these people held in 2006. India Against Corruption members managed to access a few – not all

New Delhi, November 9: In an apparent move to send out a message of austerity, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi today took a bus ride along with other leaders to Surajkund in Haryana where the party is having a brain storming meeting. However, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will not go to Surajkund by bus due to security reasons. Union ministers and top Congress leaders will attend

Mumbai, November 9: Diageo Plc was close to a deal for a stake in liquor baron Vijay Mallya's United Spirits Ltd after months of talks, sources with direct knowledge of the matter said, with a deal likely to be announced as soon as Friday. Diageo and United Spirits, which has a market value of $3.2 billion, were expected to sign a deal term sheet soon, the sources said, declining to be named

Ahmedabad, November 9: Sabarmati Central Jail authorities have decided not to send police officers accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case to Mumbai for trial despite an order to produce them in court on November 9. The authorities have cited administrative reasons to keep the accused in Ahmedabad, but the real reason could be a threat to their lives by a banned Islamic outfit. The

Ahmedabad, November 9: Gujarat Congress chief Arjun Modhwadia has compared chief minister Narendra Modi to a monkey, prompting the ruling BJP to file a complaint against him with the Election Commission. Modhwadia also went on to equate Manmohan Singh with a lion and said that a monkey sitting on the top of a tree is trying to challenge the lion, hinting at the chief minister without taking his

Dharmapuri, November 9: Angered by a man committing suicide over his daughter marrying a Dalit boy, a crowd of caste Hindus torched 285 huts in three Dalit colonies in the district, but there were no casualties as all the people had fled to neighouring areas, police said. They said the crowd first targetted Natham, the boy's village and two other Dalit colonies Kondampatty and Anna Nagar on

New Delhi, November 8: Three pleas for registration of FIRs against activist Arvind Kejriwal, yoga guru Baba Ramdev and noted lawyer Prashant Bhushan for their alleged remarks against Parliamentarians and supporting plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir respectively were dismissed on Thursday by a court in New Delhi. Metropolitan Magistrate Purshottam Pathak dismissed all the three complaints seeking

New Delhi, November 8: Hopes second term will make ties stronger Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday congratulated Barack Obama on his re-election as US president and hoped that the relations between the two countries would improve further. He said in a congratulatory message: “I look forward to continuing our rewarding association in order to build further on the enduring foundations of

New Delhi, November 8: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday informed the Supreme Court that a politically and economically powerful person in Malaysia was stalling the probe into the foreign angle in the Aircel-Maxis case involving the former Union Minister, Dayanidhi Maran, and others. Senior counsel K.K. Venugopal, appearing for the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate, told a Bench

Gurgaon, November 7: Leaders of India Inc on Wednesday welcomed the re-election of Barack Obama as the US president saying that continuity will be good for bilateral relations, but some of them expressed concerns over the outsourcing issue. "This is a good development for India. Between two large economies there will be issues and concerns. Outsourcing is also a concern and I hope it will be