Yerra Srilakshmi was an IAS topper but has added another feather to her cap, although a dubious one. She is the first woman IAS officer to be arrested for alleged corruption. The 1988-batch officer, held yesterday in connection with the mining case involving the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC), owned by arrested former Karnataka minister and mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy, was today remanded in CBI custody for three days by a local...
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Entire bureaucracy to be under Lokpal scanner by Himanshi Dhawan & Mohua Chatterjee
Conceding a major Team Anna demand, the parliamentary committee examining the Lokpal Bill has decided to recommend that 57 lakh "Group C" central government employees - or the entire lower bureaucracy - be placed within the ambit of the anti-corruption ombudsman. In a controversial decision, the panel also decided to exclude the prime minister from the Lokpal's jurisdiction as long as he holds office. This was at its final meeting to...
More »Kishenji encounter fake, says BJP
-The Hindu The encounter in which Maoist leader Kishenji was killed on November 24 was “staged,” Rahul Sinha president of the State unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party said here on Wednesday. “It is as clear as daylight that the encounter in which he was killed was staged,” Mr. Sinha said while addressing a party rally. Pointing out that had it been a genuine encounter there would not have been so many bullets...
More »Labourer ‘buys' Chhattisgarh land worth Rs 3cr by Supriya Sharma
In the winter of 2009, Vilam Singh, a young tribal farmer from Chhattisgarh's Kawardha district, applied for 100 rupee-a-day work under MNREGA, the rural job scheme. One year later, the same below-the-poverty line farmer bought land worth 3.36 crore rupees in another district, Janjgir Champa. What explains the sudden turn of fortune? "He did not turn rich overnight. He was simply roped in to act as a front by a power company that...
More »Jairam turns to CAG for help on NREGA by Sreelatha Menon
In a move most ministries would shy away from, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has written to the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India, requesting him for a performance and financial audit of the National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (NREGA), the most heavily funded flagship scheme of the UPA government. The minister has written to CAG Vinod Rai, who was recently criticised by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for calling frequent...
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