-The Economic Times Government auditor CAG today said it is in the process of finalising its report on Reliance Industries'sKG-D6 gas fields. Refuting allegation by theReliance Industries that it was not given enough time to respond to the audit observations, Comptroller and Auditor General of India Vinod Rai said, "We have given Reliance enough time to respond... it (the CAG report) is in the process of being final". Rai was responding...
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Cotton saga unravels by Latha Jishnu
Flat yields for five years and rising insecticide use are jeopardising the success of Bt cotton technology Cotton has been the biggest success story in Indian agriculture since the Green Revolution. In a country struggling with stagnant yields in most crops, cotton has been the one bright spot. Production has soared from 13.6 million bales (each bale is 170 kg) in 2002-03 to 31.2 million bales in 2010-11—a figure that catapulted...
More »CBI assesses 2G loss to Rs30,000 cr
-The Times of India CBI on Saturday concluded its arguments on framing of charges against the accused in the 2G scam saying that going purely by the note on revision of licence fee by Indian Revenue Service officer Manju Madhavan or the PM's letter, a loss of Rs 30,000 crore has been caused to the public exchequer due to the scam. Concluding his arguments, special public prosecutor U U Lalit said...
More »Lokayukta report on illegal mining names Yeddyurappa, Kumaraswamy by Johnson T A
Bangalore : Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, currently holidaying in Mauritius, is among a slew of politicians set to be named in a damning Lokayukta report on the illegal plunder of Karnataka’s iron ore resources over the decade. Cutting across party lines, the 8,000-page report also names the Reddy brothers of Bellary, Congress Rajya Sabha MP Anil Lad, former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy and BJP MLA Anand Singh. While it...
More »Few checks, balances in NRHM fund management by Surbhi Khyati
Lucknow Many officials passed through the UP Family Welfare Department between 2009-11, the period during which there were massive irregularities in the National Rural Health Mission in the state, as confirmed by a recent review by a Central team. However, one official stayed at the top all along — Pradeep Shukla, a 1981-batch IAS officer, the Principal Secretary of Family Welfare, later also appointed the Mission Director of NRHM. So even...
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