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May quiz Jaswant on telecom issues, CBI tells apex court

New Delhi, The Supreme Court was Thursday told by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)that it “may examine” the then finance minister Jaswant Singh over alleged wrongdoings in the communications ministry in the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government.

CBI senior counsel K.K. Venugopal told the court that the investigating agency “may examine” Jaswant Singh, who headed the empowered group of ministers (EGOM) when Arun Shourie was the communications minister between 2003-04.

The agency said its probe in the alleged lapses in the ministry was broadly in four parts dealing with the tenures of ministers Pramod Mahajan (2002-03), Arun shourie (2003-04), Dayanidhi Maran (2004-07) and A. Raja (2007-10). There are varying degrees of alleged wrongdoing in these periods.
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Govt gives Aug. 31 as Deadline to mobile operators on BlackBerry issue

The Government  authorities,  which has threatened to block some BlackBerry services over security concerns, has officially requested cellular providers to make sure a monitoring program for the Blackberry by Aug. 31.
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The Supreme Court today directed private telecom operators to separately file details of carriage charges due to BSNL within two weeks. This, at a time, when the government wanted at least 50 per cent of its claim to be paid immediately.

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