-PTI Delay in appointment of a new judge at the special court trying thefake stamp papers' scam cases involvingAbdul Karim Telgi, has led to the grant of bail to Telgi's manager. "The trial has come to a standstill as the state government has not yet issued notification assigning a court to hear the case," Justice A M Thipsay of the Bombay High Court observed while granting bail to Inam Chaudhary last...
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CBI chargesheet against seven in street lights scam
-Express News Service The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a chargesheet on Thursday in the Patiala House courts against seven persons, including four MCD officials, in a case relating to corruption in the installation of street lights before the Commonwealth Games. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) had floated a tender for street lighting in the city in 2008, in which, according to the CBI, the seven persons named and a...
More »Draft vetoes PM and Anna
-The Telegraph The Union cabinet today approved the Lokpal bill after overruling Manmohan Singh, who again advocated bringing the Prime Minister within the corruption ombudsman’s ambit. The higher judiciary, conduct of MPs inside Parliament, and the lower bureaucracy too have been kept out of the Lokpal’s jurisdiction. Anna Hazare, whose civil society group had insisted on all these sections and the Prime Minister being included, termed the draft a “cruel joke” and...
More »Govt forms 5 teams to probe NREGA anomalies in Bundelkhand
-The Indian Express Two months after the Supreme Court issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government to respond to alleged anomalies in MGNREGS pointed out in the survey report of the Centre for Environment and Food Security (CEFS), the state government has formed special teams to investigate the complaints in five districts of Bundelkhand. Five teams have been formed to do spot verification of the anomalies pointed out in the report,...
More »Shift POSCO plant site: Orissa Congress committee to PM
-PTI Holding the Naveen Patnaik government responsible for the delay in the implementation of the proposed POSCO steel project, Orissa Pradesh Congress Committee Tuesday sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's intervention to shift it to barren land near the present site in Jagatsinghpur. "I told the Prime Minister about the fertile and multi-crop land at Dhinkia where the state government has identified land for setting up the POSCO project ... I informed...
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