-The Business Standard Dehradun: The immediate aftermath of a disaster almost always brings out angry responses. The tragic incident in Uttarakhand is no exception. Many experts, who belong to the "I told you so" camp, have come out with their own causal analysis of the tragedy. While town planners are blaming the rapid expansion of construction activities, naturalists are of the view that the disaster is nature's way of restoring balance...
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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,...
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-Hard News While Narendra Modi's apologists will selectively quote from the latest CAG audit report on state finances that revenue earning has registered an upswing, they will compulsively forget that "the fiscal deficit of Rs 11,027 crore in 2011-12 was met out from a net borrowing of Rs 15,083 crore". The CAG has remarked that "an increase of 41 per cent in the market borrowing in 2011-12 over previous year for...
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-The Business Standard CAG says GSPL did not safeguard its own interest leading to passing on of undue benefit of Rs 52 cr to RIL In what could add more teeth to the opposition party's allegations against the Narendra Modi-led Gujarat government, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG)'s latest report has brought out fresh details of undue favour by state public sector undertakings (PSUs) to Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and...
More »CAG report on mining submitted to Chhattisgarh government-Suvojit Bagchi
-The Hindu Raipur: The Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG) has completed the process of handing over four audit reports to the Chhattisgarh government. The first report was submitted on March 5 and the last on Monday, said a press release from the office of the Accountant-General (Audit) here. The CAG’s report on commercial mining of coal blocks in Chhattisgarh last year indicated that the former BJP president, Nitin Gadkari’s close aide, Ajay Sancheti, had...
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