-The Telegraph The Left today said a degree of consent should be obtained even for land acquisition for public purpose and demanded the land acquisition bill be sent back to a parliamentary committee and not taken up for passage. "The present bill says there is no need for consent of those affected if land is acquired for government purpose. We are opposed to it. We feel a degree of consent is needed...
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JPC draft report turns heat on NDA govt
-The Business Standard Says licence terms extended to 15 years on advice of erstwhile Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India, a lender to many telcos Giving a clean chit to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the 2G spectrum allocation case in 2008, the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) that looked into telecom spectrum allocations has turned the heat on the numerous decisions taken in the sector between 1998 and 2004, during...
More »2G scam: JPC clears Manmohan Singh, Chidambaram; pins Rs 40,000 crore loss on NDA
-The Times of India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been given a clean chit by the Joint Parliamentary Committee on telecom which rubbished CAG's Rs 1.76 lakh crore loss calculations in the 2G scam but slammed the Vajpayee government for Rs 40,080 crore loss due to a policy shift in 1999. The committee - headed by Congress MP P C Chacko - in its draft report pinned the 2G blame on former...
More »Coalgate probe stalls as CBI awaits files from ministry -Rajeev Deshpande & Neeraj Chauhan
-The Times of India More than five months after the CBI began investigating Coalgate, the agency is yet to receive hundreds of files from the coal ministry as it probes charges of criminality in allocation of coal blocks to private players. Although CBI has been sifting through an enormous mass of information regarding coal block allocations that the CAG has said caused a loss of Rs 1.86 lakh crore to the government,...
More »Prosecutor was helping key accused in 2G case, CBI says
-The Times of India In a stunning twist to the 2G case, an audio tape of a CBI senior public prosecutor purportedly advising a key accused on how to counter prosecution's charge has emerged, breathing fresh life into the mega-swindle and bringing fresh trouble for the government. The tape sent to the CBI anonymously has the agency's senior public prosecutor A K Singh speaking to Sanjay Chandra, MD of Unitech and...
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