He challenged 'socialist' Mulayam Singh Yadav, charging him with possessing disproportionate assets, contested elections against BJP stalwart Rajnath Singh and is now responsible for all the furore over the foodgrain Scam. Vishwanath Chaturvedi, whose PIL became the basis for high court's December 3 order in the Scam, is a compulsive litigant. "I have filed some three dozen public interest litigations of diverse nature," he said here on Tuesday. Most of these...

The food Scam in Uttar Pradesh could well turn out to be the mother of all scandals and indications are that it could well be worth Rs 2 lakh crore. Here is a timeline of the Scam. Nov 2004 | Prashant Chaturvedi, principal secretary, food and civil supplies, seeks information from the railways about loading of rakes for transporting foodgrain to Bangladesh & some other foreign countries Dec 2004 | Railways provide...

Beneficiaries include sitting and retired judges, IGP, Congress MLAAn RTI query into the allotment of prime land and flats under the Tamil Nadu Housing Board scheme has unravelled another land Scam where the discretionary quota, which is 15 per cent reserved, was misused for favours to people in high offices, including judges, MLAs and bureaucrats.Some of these beneficiaries were given plots under the ‘unblemished Government Servant (UGS) quota, especially in...

Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Wednesday announced a judicial probe into the Adarsh cooperative housing scandal, saying in the assembly that a retired Supreme Court or high court judge and a former chief secretary would comprise the two-member panel. Somewhat predictably, the opposition parties described Chavan's announcement as unsatisfactory and rushed into the well of the House shouting slogans against the government, accusing the Congress-NCP alliance of shielding the Scam...

In what is being called the mother of all Scams, food grain meant for the poorest of the poor has been smuggled out of Uttar Pradesh into the open market and even to a neighbouring country. Starting from 2002, under the reign of different chief ministers, the Scam is estimated at over Rs 2 lakh crore, Times Now reported. The Scam leaves all political parties that have ruled Uttar Pradesh...