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Tehelka is an Indian weekly newspaper under the editorship of Tarun Tejpal. It was launched following the successful debut in 2000 of Tehelka.com as an online newspaper. A week is a unit of time longer than a day and shorter than a month. ...
Modern printed newspapers all over the world are developing and running web newspapers. ...
It currently is an independent weekly newspaper. It is well known for its news coverage, unaligned to any of India's established media groups.
Operation West End Operation West End was a sting operation aimed at uncovering the corruption underlying India's large defence contracts. The original investigative piece by Tehelka in 2001 targeted several members of the then ruling coalition, the National Democratic Party, headed by Bharatiya Janata Party's Atal Behari Vajpayee. It showed several political figures, as well as army top brass, colluding to take bribes that approached 4% of orders totalling hundreds of crores in order to approve defense contracts. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
Executive President Vice-President Prime Minister Deputy Prime Minister The Union Ministries Legislative Parliament Rajya Sabha Chairman of the Rajya Sabha Lok Sabha Speaker of the House Judicial Supreme Court Chief Justice of the Supreme Court High Courts District Courts Constitution Fundamental Rights and Directive principles Regions States and territories...
The Bharatiya Janata Party [BJP] (Hindi: , English: ), created in 1980, is a major Indian political party. ...
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (often wrongly spelt Behari; अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी in Devnagari) (born December 25, 1924) was the Prime Minister of India in 1996 and again from 1998 until May 19, 2004. ...
A crore is a unit in a traditional number system, still widely used in India. ...
The minister in charge of Defence, George Fernandes of the Samata Party, resigned after the tapes were made public, but he was reinstated later. Part of the tapes show the treasurer of his party talking about accepting bribes of 1 crore or more. Security measures taken to protect the Houses of Parliament in London, England. ...
George Fernandes (born 3 June 1930) is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. ...
The Samata Party is a political party in India. ...
One source of corruption arises because arms dealers often hire senior armed forces personnel. For example, Admiral S. M. Nanda, ex-Chief of Naval Staff, is now associated with the arms mediating firm Crown Corporation, headed by his son, ex-Naval officer Lt-Cmdr Suresh Nanda. Clearly such people have access to internal processes at the Indian Ministry of Defence. S. M. Nanda was the Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy from February 28, 1970 until February 28, 1973. ...
Lt-Cmdr Suresh Nanda is an Indian arms dealer and head of the firm Crown Corporation. ...
The Defence Minister of India is a cabinet position in the Government of India. ...
In the Tehelka tapes, the reporter (usually Aniruddha Bahal) is posing as a representative of the fictitious large arms supplier West End. Aniruddha Bahal is the founder and editor in chief of Cobrapost. ...
Armoured Recovery Vehicles At one point, the Samata Party national treasurer RK Jain is trying to convince Tehelka about his prowess in swinging deals. He mentions how in the first defence deal that he was involved in as the party treasurer, Suresh Nanda of Crown Corporation had paid Samata Party Rs 1 crore to swing the Rs 250-crore (USD 60 million) order for Armoured Recovery Vehicles (ARV) in favour of a Slovakian company. The Samata Party is a political party in India. ...
Lt-Cmdr Suresh Nanda is an Indian arms dealer and head of the firm Crown Corporation. ...
- Samata Party treasurer R.K. Jain: "Nanda approached me. Czechoslovakia's price was the lowest, second Slovakian, third was the Poland."
- Tehelka: "Haan, Haan."
- R.K. Jain: "He said, 'I will give you one crore rupees in advance'."
- Tehelka: "Okay."
- R.K. Jain: "You get disapproved the last one. Czechoslovakia because they are so lower that we cannot match their price."
- Tehelka: "Okay."
- R.K. Jain: "If you can push him out. Delegation is going on to the... delegation has been ordered to go to Czechoslovakia. Stop this delegation, and technically reject this company. Here are the documents."
- Tehelka: "Hmm."
- R.K.Jain: "By which it's proved that this company is closed for the last two years. They will start only after getting this order."
- Tehelka: "Yeah, yeah."
- R.K. Jain: "I will give one crore rupees. And I will give you... if they are technically disapproved, then you are my agent."
- Tehelka: "Yeah."
- R.K. Jain: "For this particular... perks... and I will give you so much of commission."
- Tehelka: "Okay."
- R.K. Jain: "I said, 'Fine.' He gave me the correspondence. I took the correspondence to George."
- (the then Defence minister George Fernandes was from Samata Party)
- Tehelka: "Hmm."
- R.K. Jain: "And he said, 'All right, I'll reject it.' He is a very intelligent man."...
- Tehelka: Okay, it is manipulated.
- R.K. Jain: He wrote straight away on the file himself. He never goes and orders to a Joint Secretary. He wrote it himself, and sent the file back. Nanda gave me one crore rupees. He called me, "Yes, Mr. Jain, the file has come down. Like you know George…"
- Tehelka: Yeah, yeah.[1]
George Fernandes (born 3 June 1930) is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. ...
Barak Missile System -
At another point Jain also says that he had received another Rs 1 crore for the Samata Party from Suresh Nanda to help swing the contract for an air-to-air and surface-to-surface missile system for the Indian Navy. Nanda was an agent for the Israel Aircraft Industries who make the Barak missile.[2] The Barak Missile Deal Scandal pertains to an ongoing investigation by Indian authorities of allegations of corruption in the purchase of Barak Missile Systems by India from Israel. ...
Israel Aircraft Industries or IAI is Israels prime aerospace and aviation manufacturer, producing aerial systems for both military and civilian usage. ...
The Barak SAM was developed in a joint venture between Israel Aircraft Industries and RAFAEL and is based on RAFAELs vertically launched missile. ...
These tapes were the result of a clandestine sting operation and are not admissible as evidence in court. However, the tapes (and the media furore following it) resulted in the Central Bureau of Investigation conducting its own investigation, based on which R.K. Jain was arrested in February 2006.[3] This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
The CBI emblem. ...
See also Below is a list of newspapers published in India. ...
References - ^ Tehelka Tapes (transcript). Tehelka.com. Retrieved on 2006-08-17.
- ^ Srivastava, Mihir. Finally, West End Lands Jain In Jail. Tehelka. Retrieved on 2006-08-16.
- ^ PTI. "R K Jain arrested five years after Tehelka expose", Outlook, 2006-02-07. Retrieved on 2006-08-16.
Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
External references - tehelka.com
- [1] Story of the birth, death and re-birth of 'Tehelka'.
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