-The Indian Express The CBI, in its probe report before the Supreme Court, has indicted the Centre over "massive irregularities and illegalities" in coal block allocation and alleged lack of cooperation by the Coal Ministry. In its latest status report on the probe, the CBI informed a Bench led by Justice R M Lodha that there were various "serious" breaches in the manner the Screening committee examined the applications for allocation of...
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-The Economic Times The Supreme Court has pulled up the CBI for misleading it on whether the agency had shared its status report with the government. Indeed, there can be no excuse for misrepresenting facts to the apex court. The Additional Solicitor General who told the court something that he knew to his personal knowledge to be false and the Attorney General who did not make amends must both go. The...
More »Famine sucks life out of Maharashtra's Touring Talkies
-PTI PANAJI: Sitting on the Mandovi river bank here, where he has set up his maiden Goa show of the 107-year-old Touring Talkies, Vijay Kulkarni has mixed feelings. He is excited about the fact that this is the first time time that the Touring Talkies has traveled outside Maharashtra. "But this may be the last time too," says 65-year-old Kulkarni, the owner of Sri Ram Touring Talkies and Vijay Touring Talkies. According to him,...
More »Shared coal status report with law minister, CBI chief tells SC -Utkarsh Anand
-The Indian Express CBI director Ranjit Sinha admitted to the Supreme Court on Friday that the agency's status report on the coal blocks allocation case had been shown to Law Minister Ashwani Kumar "as desired by him". The report was also shared with a senior official each from the Prime Minister's Office and the coal ministry, the CBI director said. The government has been in turmoil - facing demands for an explanation...
More »The scholar who grew up in Mumbai's red light area- Abhishek Mande
-Rediff.com Born in Mumbai's infamous red-light district, Shweta Katti has won a scholarship to the Bard College, New York. This is her story. Shweta Katti is warming up to the media attention she's been receiving lately. She has had a long day but has agreed to meet me at a coffee shop for what must have been the nth interview she's giving in the last 48 hours. It is close to 10 in...
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