The CBI's record in the Jain hawala case was disappointing. But there are powerful elements in favour of unravelling the truth in the 2G scam. On December 16, 2010, the Supreme Court (Justices G.S. Singhvi and Asok Kumar Ganguly, ) ordered a comprehensive and thorough investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement Directorate into what has become notorious as “the 2G scam.” The investigation, into spectrum allocation from...

Commonwealth Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmdi was today questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with alleged financial irregularities in the conduct of the sports event. According to sources, the questioning is about alleged irregularities in the Queen Baton's Relay held in London last year besides certain contracts awarded to various firms totalling several hundred crores. The CBI summons to Kalmadi follows the interrogation of his key aide Lalit...

Hidden behind all the administrative scandals that rocked India in 2010, illegal mining is an unnoticed beast that has been eating into the country's soul.   While corruption in spectrum allocation and the conduct of the Commonwealth Games are primarily about monetary loot, illegal mining is about invaluable non-renewable natural resources.   In at least five major states, there were more than 20,000 complaints of illegal mining filed, but the perpetrators carried on with...

CBI has finally asked CWG Organizing Committee (OC) chief Suresh Kalmadi to present himself before the agency, which is likely to quiz him about his role in dodgy contracts, a blackmail letter and destruction of evidence. Kalmadi has, like DMK's A Raja did in the 2G spectrum allocation case, responded by expressing his inability to be at the CBI headquarters immediately. Kalmadi has sought time till January 3 and agency sources...

Two months after the Commonwealth Games (CWG) ended amid allegations of major financial wrongdoings, the CBI Friday raided Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi's homes in New Delhi and Pune and the Games office here. The Central Bureau of Investigation said teams of officers searched Kalmadi's residences and that of an aide also in Pune. 'The raids began early morning today. A total of four locations were raided in Delhi and Pune. We...