New Delhi | 8 days ago
Singhvi seeks leave for rest of budget session
New Delhi, May 4 - Allegedly caught on CD with a woman, former Congress spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi has taken leave for the entire second half of parliament's budget session citing ill health.Singhvi, a Rajya Sabha member, sought leave claiming illness and family commitment from April 24 to May 22. The leave has been granted.Another Rajya Sabha member, T. Subbarami Reddy, also sought permissio ... read more

New Delhi | 17 days ago
Court dismisses plea for probe into Singhvi CD
New Delhi, April 25- The Delhi High Court Wednesday dismissed a petition seeking direction to the Bar Council of Delhi and the Delhi Bar Association to investigate the CD controversy related to Congress MP and lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi.Dismissing the public interest litigation -, a division bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw said the Bar Council of Delhi and ... read more

New Delhi | 18 days ago
Singhvi stays away from parliament
New Delhi, April 24 - After giving up his position in a parliamentary committee and the Congress party over an alleged sleaze CD, Rajya Sabha member Abhishek Manu Singhvi chose to stay away from the parliament Tuesday. Party colleague Salman Khurshid defended Singhvi, saying it was his private matter.Singhvi was absent from the parliament as its budget session resumed fearing that the opposition m ... read more

New Delhi | 18 days ago
Singhvi stays away from parliament
New Delhi, April 24 - After giving up his position in a parliamentary committee and the Congress party over an alleged sleaze CD, Rajya Sabha member Abhishek Manu Singhvi also chose to stay away from the parliament as the budget session resumed Tuesday.The Congress leader, who was allegedly caught in a CD in a sexual act, was absent from parliament after he gave up key posts fearing opposition to ... read more

New Delhi | 19 days ago
CD row: Singhvi quits party, parliamentary posts
New Delhi, April 23 - A day before parliament reconvenes for the budget session, Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi quit Monday as party spokesperson and as head of the parliamentary panel on law and justice in the wake of a controversial CD allegedly featuring him.Singhvi announced his decision to resign from the posts in a statement issued Monday evening, in which he said he had quit to prevent e ... read more

New Delhi | 19 days ago
'Singhvi CD issue has harmed legal profession'
New Delhi, April 23 - The Bar Council of Delhi Monday said that the sleaze CD controversy surrounding lawyer and Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi has lowered the dignity of the legal profession. Singhvi maintains that the CD's contents were fabricated and morphed.Rajiv Khosla, member of the Bar Council of Delhi and former president of the Delhi Bar Association, said: Such incidents cause a gr ... read more

New Delhi | 19 days ago
Singhvi should explain his resignation in parliament: BJP
New Delhi, April 23 - The Bharatiya Janata Party - Monday said that Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi should explain in parliament why he has quit as chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on law and justice.It is a serious matter and the party has not given any statement on the issue. As he has resigned from the post of chairman of the parliamentary standing committee, we hope he will m ... read more

New Delhi | 19 days ago
Resumed budget session may generate heat for government
New Delhi, April 23 - The Congress may have averted some house trouble by asking Abhishek Manu Singhvi to step down from party and parliamentary posts over a sleaze video, but peace in parliament as it resumes Tuesday may still be a far cry with the opposition gunning for the government over key issues like Maoist insurgency, defence preparedness of the country and inflation.The other issues likel ... read more

New Delhi | 19 days ago
Singhvi quits as Congress spokesperson, parliamentary panel chief
New Delhi, April 23 - Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi Monday resigned as chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on law and justice and as party spokesperson in the wake of a CD controversy surrounding him, saying that he had done so to prevent even the slightest possible parliamentary disruption.Announcing his decision through a detailed press statement, Singhvi said canards and basele ... read more

New Delhi | 19 days ago
Singhvi quits as Congress spokesperson, parliamentary panel chief
New Delhi, April 23 - Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi Monday resigned as party spokesperson and chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on law and justice in the wake of the controversy over a CD allegedly featuring him. The resignation comes a day before the start of the second phase of parliament's budget session Tuesday.Singhvi's office told IANS that he had quit the posts. ... read more