-The Times of India The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) faced its sharpest indictment in the Supreme Court on Wednesday, with a senior official's visit to the CBI office to scan and suggest changes to an investigation report on Coalgate attracting the court's severe ire. The court's scathing comments on Shatrughna Singh, a joint secretary in the PMO, and Ashok Bhalla, a joint secretary in the coal ministry, seeking changes in a draft...
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CAG pulls up govt for fixing foodgrain MSP
-The Economic Times The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has said the government fixed the minimum support price of food grain crops in a skewed manner and also faulted it for following inadequate norms on buffer food grains to meet contingencies during the Audit period of 2006-07 and 2011-12. In a report titled 'Storage Management and Movement of Food Grains in Food Corporation of India', tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, the CAG...
More »Vinod Rai, Comptroller & Auditor General interviewed by The Business Standard
-The Business Standard Comptroller & Auditor General Vinod Rai, who has put the government on the mat several times in the past three years, says an Auditor is meant to be adversarial. On the sidelines of the inauguration of the International Centre for Environment Audit and Sustainable Development in Jaipur on Saturday, Rai, whose term as the CAG ends on May 22, spoke to journalists about his stint, retirement plans and...
More »Building euphoria-Himanshu Upadhyaya
-Frontline But in Modi's Gujarat the difference between development and darkness is all too visible to those who care to see. NARENDRA MODI may have won three consecutive elections and ruled Gujarat for more than a decade after he was posted there almost as a night watchman, to borrow a cricketing expression. He may have mobilised a massive fan following that is shouting to catapult him into the Prime Minister's post,...
More »EC calls all-party meet on verifiable paper trail
-The Hindu Experts panel has okayed design, EC tells Supreme Court New Delhi: The Election Commission on Thursday informed the Supreme Court that it would convene an all-party meeting on May 10 to decide on changes to be made in the electronic voting machine for introducing the Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) System. Under this system, a voter by pressing a button in the EVM will know the candidate whom he/she is voting...
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