In what is expected to add more teeth to the investigation into the multi-thousand crore foodgrain scam in UP, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday decided to join the CBI investigation. The Allahabad HC had on Friday asked CBI to join the probe into the unprecedented foodgrain pilferage in UP between 2004 and 2007 when Mulayam Singh Yadav was the chief minister. The case relates to the smuggling of grain meant...
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Assam: Mahanta Claims NREGA scam Cost Rs 180 Cr
Former Assam chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta today claimed the state government was responsible for a scam of Rs 180 crore of NREGA funds besides the multi-crore fund diversion in N C Hills. "I have with me relevant documents of the NREGA scam," the Leader of the Opposition in the state assembly told reporters here. The AGP leader also claimed that for the past six months, the government had failed to submit...
More »Why Govt. NO to JPC? by Mohan Sahay
Why the UPA Government is afraid of a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the 2G Spectrum scam? The different arguments being advanced are removed from the real reason behind the government’s refusal to accept the Opposition demand to constitute a JPC.The report of the JPC is not mandatory- it is not binding on the government to take action on the basis of the report. Earlier JPC reports on Bofors or...
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The Supreme Court today asked central vigilance commissioner P.J. Thomas to explain why his appointment as head of the country’s top anti-corruption watchdog shouldn’t be scrapped even as the embattled bureaucrat hung on to his post. The notices to Thomas and the central government were a first from the court, which had so far only questioned Thomas’s appointment as CVC for his alleged involvement in a palm oil import case. The vigilance...
More »'Paid news would finish off journalism unless...'
Media is business, journalism is not. With these stinging words, developmental journalist and Magsaysay Award winner for journalism P Sainath grabbed the attention of the 250 media students attending Mumbai's Sophia Polytechnic's annual lecture, 'Catalyst for Change', on Thursday. The topic was 'Paid News', on which there cannot be a more well-informed speaker than Sainath who has consistently highlighted the menace in his writings. Sainath said since 2008, some 3000 journalists...
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