Controversy
It's a scam involving close to Rs 60,000 crores and the BJP is on the offensive: 'It is unfortunate that the Prime Minister has chosen to comment on the innocence of the minister even while the investigations are on'
Web | Oct 26, 2009
Column
Though I've quit as party general secretary, let me set the agenda (on behalf of the BJP parivar) for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...
Magazine | Jun 29, 2009
Bofors
The timing of the withdrawal of the the Red Corner notice against Ottavio Quattrocchi is an indication that the leadership of the UPA is so convinced of the loss of its power that, like most despotic regimes, it is obliging its friends in the last days of the office.
Web | Apr 28, 2009
Profile
L.K. Advani may have been the deputy PM, but Brajesh Mishra, it was said, wielded more power. He was principal secretary, NSA, special envoy.
Magazine | Mar 30, 2009
For The Record
'Shri Navin Chawla's episode will once again put the Left parties on trial. They will have to make a judgment whether to blindly support the constitutionally inappropriate action of the Congress Party or lean in favour of strengthening independent constitutional institutions.'
Web | Feb 03, 2008
Review
A treasure house of never-before-seen pictures
that sketch our cricket history better than words
Magazine | Oct 30, 2006
RS Debate: OOP
'Constitutionally, ethically, politically, and morally, the Opposition is right; the Government is in the wrong. We don't want to destabilise the polity ... Even if you want to condone the past, do you have the moral stature to say that this kind of practice for the future should stop?'
Web | Aug 02, 2006
Opinion
No amount of those political heroics of the kind, which we saw in May 2004, will save the government from the situation in which it has landed itself.
Web | Mar 23, 2006
Bofors
The UPA government has decided to defy the rule of law. The government has decided to defy public opinion, defy the norms of ethics and morality. The government has now decided to defy even the direction of the Supreme Court.
UpdatesWeb | Jan 18, 2006
Bofors
It does not absolve the UPA Chairperson and the Prime Minister. If at all, it inculpates them. The Indian Tax Payer has been robbed to enrich a fugitive. On trial is not merely a corruption case. It is the Indian Democracy, which has been challenged.
UpdatesWeb | Jan 16, 2006
LETTER TO PM
Who authorized the Law Ministry to deal with this matter? Who authorized the visit of the Additional Solicitor General of India to Britain? Who prevented the CBI officer from accompanying the Additional Solicitor General of India?
Web | Jan 16, 2006
Bofors
This unusual step has been taken to help Mr Quottorocchi merely because of his proximity to Mrs. Sonia Gandhi and the Gandhi family. Is Indian law going to be different for an Italian accused?
Web | Jan 13, 2006
Bofors
The decision to allow de-freezing the bank accounts of Mr Otavio Quottrochi which were frozen in the course of investigation of Bofors bribery case, has exposed the complete lack of ethics and morality of the UPA government.
Web | Jan 12, 2006
For The Record
Unlike the Lok Sabha, the Rajya Sabha witnessed a spirited attack on the government on the Volcker issue, where the BJP's former law minister forcefully argued that "the least that the Prime Minister must do is to put this investigation on a correct course and get rid of tainted colleagues who are an embarrassment to the country all over the world"
Web | Nov 29, 2005
For The Record
In summing up the discussion, the former law minister rebutted the defenders and said there was a danger that Congress instead of being known for its Gandhian era or the Nehruvian era, might be more known for its Mitrokhin era, the Volcker era, the Martin Alberto era, and the Quotrochi era.
Web | Nov 29, 2005
Volcker Shocker
How can the PM, Sonia Gandhi and the UPA now adopt different standards? They should be bound by the same yardstick by which they insisted that when facts constitute a criminal offence it is the CBI alone which should investigate after registration of a criminal case.
Web | Nov 06, 2005
Volcker Shocker
Congress's threat to issue a " comprehensive legal notice to the UN and the Volcker Committee" gets a "mirthful" reaction from the author of the report, as the BJP turns on the heat on UPA and Congress.
Full CoverageWeb | Nov 04, 2005
WTO
'India reiterates that under no circumstances can it accept any form or harmonization of tariffs in agriculture or obligations to create and expand tariff rate quotas.' A hard-hitting statement from the commerce minister.
Web | Sep 11, 2003
labour
Union minister for law, justice and company affairs Arun Jaitley is certain that the bold labour law changes will sail through Parliament. Excerpts from an interview:
Magazine | Jun 04, 2001
Interview
Union law, justice and company affairs minister Arun Jaitley appears confident that the current political crisis will not hamper reforms. But in an interview to Outlook, he admits that the disinvestment process will be delayed. Excerpts:
Magazine | Apr 02, 2001