-PTI The Central Vigilance Commission has recommended action against 136 officials working in various government departments for their alleged involvement in corruption. Of the total, a highest of 32 are working in Department of Telecommunications, 17 in State Bank of India, 11 in Ministry of Railways and nine in Bank of India among others. Besides, seven officials working in Central Board of Excise and Customs and four officials each in Bharat Sanchar Nigam...
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House panel rejects contentious health Bill
-The Indian Express The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare has summarily rejected the proposed National Commission for Human Resources in Health Bill (NCHRH) 2011, asking the Health Ministry to draft a fresh Bill giving more space to views of state governments and various stakeholders given that reforms in the sector are “long overdue”. The committee also wants the ministry to include medical research (currently covered by the Higher Education...
More »Assam Madrasa exam topper denied visa to make govt-sponsored trip to NASA -Sushanta Talukdar
-The Hindu They have not rejected it; they have simply kept Ratul Khan’s application pending: Education Minister Ratul Khan is among seven top-performing high-school students to win an Assam government-sponsored scholarship to visit the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) headquarters in the United States, but he has been denied a visa. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday handed over tickets to the six others who won the first three ranks in the...
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-The Hindu The trials and tribulations of Ashok Khemka and Sanjiv Chaturvedi expose Haryana’s intolerance of upright bureaucrats When Haryana’s top land registration official, Ashok Khemka, decided to probe Robert Vadra’s land deals in the State, he perhaps never anticipated the kind of animosity that his actions against Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law would generate within the government. Or, maybe he did, but went ahead nevertheless, hoping that a proactive media would...
More »The Dark And The Sublime: The Story Of Rajat Gupta-Shaili Chopra
-Tehelka The sentencing of Wall Street wizard Rajat Gupta in the historic insider trading case has led to the fall of a one-time icon for many Indians “This is where destiny is taking me.” This is what former Goldman Sachs Group Inc director, Rajat Gupta, told old friend Pramod Bhasin, as he sat with a glass of scotch in hand, in a mid-town bar in New York. Little did Gupta know how prophetic...
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