-The Times of India BHOPAL: The Lokayukta on Sunday raided the residence of a village school headmaster in Mandsaur and recovered undisclosed assets amounting to more than Rs 2.5 crore. The headmaster of the government middle school in Amlavad village, Ram Dayal Joshi (45), joined service in 1995. In 17 years since he became a school teacher, he amassed Wealth including eight hectares of agricultural land, a huge plot in Urban...
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There is no ‘foreign hand’-Amita Baviskar
-The Indian Express Conspiracy theories are a handy standby when one wants to avoid the effort of critical thinking. So Tavleen Singh would rather rely on “the foreign hand” — that old bogey out of Indira Gandhi’s box of tricks — than examine facts that reveal uncomfortable truths. Lamenting the closure of the Vedanta aluminium refinery at Lanjigarh, Orissa (‘Why India could remain forever’, IE, September 30), Singh asserts that, if...
More »70,000-crore scam: Gadkari justifies letter lobbying for controversial dam, contractors -Sabyasachi Dasgupta
-NDTV A letter written by BJP president Nitin Gadkari lobbying for contractors building a mega-dam project in Maharashtra has the Congress demanding his resignation, and the BJP on the defensive. Written on July 30 to Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, Mr Gadkari asks for Rs. 400 crores to be released to the contractors hired for the Gosikhurd dam in Vidarbha. The main contractor is Ajay Sancheti, a BJP member of the...
More »Chakravyuh song taking a jibe at Tata, Ambani & others kicks up a storm; India Inc protests-Vijaya Rathore
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: Birla ho ya Tata, Ambani ho ya Bata Sabne apne chakkar mein des ko hai kaata Are humre hi khoon se inka Engine chale dhakadhak (Be it Birla or Tata, Ambani or Bata Everyone has exploited the nation for their own benefit Their engine runs on our blood) The names of some of India's top corporate houses may seem to rhyme well in this Bollywood ballad, but its drift, insinuating that business groups like...
More »CBI probes offshore mining licence scam -Neeraj Chauhan
-The Times of India A new scam worth several thousands of crores has come to light. The Central Bureau of Investigation has started a probe into serious irregularities in awarding offshore mining blocks to private companies which did not fulfill the eligibility criteria. The CBI has registered a preliminary enquiry (PE) against officials of the Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM), the ministry of mines as well as private companies which secured licences...
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