-Live Mint Electoral reforms are not the forte of law ministers. But they can avoid damaging a battered system The resignation of Ashwani Kumar as law minister has brought cheer to a group of people who do not have much to do, at least directly, with the coal block allocation controversy. These are people working on electoral reforms. This is because ever since becoming law minister, Kumar had been consistent in his...
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Panel probing Walmart’s lobbying charge submits report
-The Hindustan Times A government-appointed committee that was looking into allegations of US retail major Walmart's lobbying activities to enter the Indian market has submitted its report to corporate affairs minister Sachin Pilot on Saturday. "The report has just been submitted, the minister would go through it," said a senior corporate affairs ministry. There were reports that the committee has given Walmart a clean chit but it could not be independently verified. The committee,...
More »Govt forms GoM to insulate CBI from external influence- Sahil Makkar
-Live Mint The GoM findings, draft will be submitted to the Supreme Court before 10 July Taking a cue from last week's adverse comments by the Supreme Court, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh constituted a group of ministers (GoM) to draft a law that will eventually seek to insulate the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from political influence. Finance minister P. Chidambaram, external affairs minister Salman Khurshid, law minister Kapil Sibal and minister of...
More »Why Orissa mining may not go the Goa way -Meera Mohanty
-The Economic Times Three weeks ago, when the Supreme Court reopened the iron-ore mining door some more in Karnataka, miners in Orissa breathed a Rs 50,000 crore sigh of relief. Also in the dock for some offences of a similar nature, Orissa's iron-ore miners, who produce a third of this mineral that is critical to steel, had been dreading their fate, which lay in the hands of a Central government panel. The...
More »HC issues non-bailable warrant against 3 dozen babus for contempt -Ravi Singh Sisodiya
-The Times of India LUCKNOW: A Lucknow bench of high court on Wednesday issued non-bailable warrants against three dozen state government officials for non-compliance of the court's orders. The state bureaucracy faced the ire of the bench for the second consecutive day for failing to carry out its orders within stipulated time despite being served contempt notices. The list of these officials includes Lucknow's DM Arurag Yadav and DIG Navniet...
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