Thiruvananthapuram : After the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report tabled in Kerala Assembly indicted the state police department for misuse and diversion of funds, and irregularities in dealing with service providers, the Congress-led Opposition on Wednesday demanded a CBI probe against Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Last week, the CAG report found that the state […]

New Delhi: An Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) under the Coal Ministry is all set to cancel coal blocks allotted to private players since 1993 despite the Prime Minister’s Office saying no blocks will be cancelled. In all, 148 coal blocks are under scrutiny. The panel will first look at 60 blocks which had been issued showcause […]

New Delhi: Leading the counter-offensive on the coal block allocation issue, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday hit out at the BJP saying the main opposition party was holding Parliament to ransom. The BJP has scant respect for Parliament; it is mocking the people of India, Gandhi told the general body meeting of the Congress […]

New Delhi: Congress leader Rajiv Shukla on Friday confirmed that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will make a statement on CAG report on coal blocks allocation in Parliament. “Prime Minister will make statement in both Houses of Parliament today and will clear all the doubts regarding the coal blocks allocation issue,” Shukla said. Dr Singh is […]

Bangalore: Karnataka’s Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department has wasted Rs 54.53 crore by entrusting to a private company the computerisation project to digitise the data collected through a house-to-house survey and issue computerised ration cards to the eligible families. “The Department wasted Rs 54.53 crore through its failure to enforce the agreed terms […]

New Delhi: The 2G Spectrum scam running into lakhs of crores of rupees as per CAG report, has taken a new turn, with criminal king Dawood Ibrahim sheltered in Pakistan, having a side role in it.  The CBI about to examine that aspect of economic crimes in India, has been threatened by an attack from […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has come down heavily upon the tainted (DMK) MP, A Raja, for what it indicated him as showing “disrespect” to the (Congress) Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh by ignoring his advice on 2 G spectrum allocation matters (to wait upon). A Raja was pulled up not heeding to PM’s suggestion […]