Social activist Anna Hazare has cash assets worth Rs.68,688.36. He owns 0.07 hectares of family land in Ralegan Siddhi which is being used by his family. Two other pieces of land donated to him by the Army and by a villager have been donated by him for village use. This is all that Mr. Hazare, who lives in a temple in Ralegan Siddhi, a model village, owns. Sent to chairman The assets of...
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Moneylaundering watchdog to track all realty deals by Deepshikha Sikarwar
All real estate transactions will have to be reported to the country's anti- moneylaundering agency once the government amends a key law that seeks to curb black-money transactions. The government plans to amend the Prevention of Money Laundering Act , which will require property registrars to file data of transactions recorded by them with the Financial Intelligence Unit, or FIU, a finance ministry official said. "The scope of the (Prevention...
More »Koda & Co. property worth Rs 300cr by Pheroze L Vincent
Enforcement Directorate has begun attaching Madhu Koda and his friends’ properties, mostly flats and land in Bihar, Jharkhand and Maharashtra, valued at over Rs 300 crore. Armed with an April 6 approval order from the adjudicating authority for cases under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the directorate is sticking to the higher valuation even though 2007 revenue department assessments pegged the properties’ worth at around Rs 130 crore. “This is...
More »CBI to file 80,000-page charge sheet against Raja, others on April 2
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that it would file an 80,000-page charge sheet in the 2G spectrum allocation scam against the former Communications Minister A. Raja, four former Telecom officials and two companies on April 2. It was originally proposed to be filed on March 31. Senior counsel K.K. Venugopal told a Bench of Justices G.S. Singhvi and A.K. Ganguly that the agency was still...
More »JNNURM: A balance sheet by M Ramachandran
Five years ago, the Prime Minister launched the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), calling it the single-largest initiative of the government of India for a planned development of our cities. This unique, Rs 50,000-crore (subsequently enhanced to Rs 66,000 crore) programme to be implemented over a seven years from 2005 to 2012 focuses mainly on 65 mission cities with provision kept also for other small towns. While the...
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