-The Times of India Chief Justice of India (CJI) S H Kapadia on Saturday joined the debate on the CAG's estimate of "windfall gains" for private players in the Coal Block Allocation scam, suggesting such assessments may not be accurate. "People should be educated on economics as well to understand that these irregularities should be understood from the point of loss, which was a matter of fact, and not from profit angle,...
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A risky strategy, born of panic -Siddharth Varadarajan
-The Hindu Building ‘capitalism with Indian characteristics’ means decisions cannot ignore concerns of voters and communities As the economy slows down and the rupee wilts, Manmohan Singh has bitten the ‘reforms’ bullet with both eyes on the credit rating agencies whose negative reports have done much to dampen the ‘animal spirits’ of investors, foreign and native. Last November, when the Congress party made a push to introduce foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail,...
More »PM tells nation: Trust me on reforms, I will deliver
-The Hindustan Times Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday strongly justified the hard economic decisions he had taken recently and asked the common man for support so that he could repeat his 1991 act - rescuing Indian economy from being at the bottom of the heap. "I promise you that I will do everything necessary to put our country back on the path of high and inclusive growth," he said during his...
More »CAG to brief PAC on coal issue today
-PTI Sparks are likely to fly in the meetings of Parliament's Public Accounts Committee as it takes up the controversial CAG report on Coal Block Allocations from Friday when the government auditor will brief the panel on the issue. Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai and his team of officials will brief the PAC on the auditor's findings on Coal Block Allocation on Friday. The issue had virtually washed out the entire Monsoon...
More »Crunching numbers to soften Coalgate -Shalini Singh
-The Hindu The CAG has a lot of explaining to do on the methods used to reduce the loss it estimated in its draft report Comptroller & Auditor General Vinod Rai, who has maintained a dignified silence despite being in the government’s line of fire for his controversial report on coal, now has no choice but to break his silence. On Thursday, he appears before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) where he is...
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