-Live Mint The GoM findings, draft will be submitted to the Supreme Court before 10 July Taking a cue from last week's adverse comments by the Supreme Court, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh constituted a group of ministers (GoM) to draft a law that will eventually seek to insulate the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from political influence. Finance minister P. Chidambaram, external affairs minister Salman Khurshid, law minister Kapil Sibal and minister of...
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Govt may take back 30 more coal blocks- Aman Malik
-Live Mint Show cause notices to be issued to companies, including Jindal Steel, Tata Power, GVK Power and Jaypee Group The government is set to issue show cause notices to the holders of at least 30 captive coal blocks, according to a senior coal ministry official with direct knowledge of the matter. Companies holding these blocks will be asked to explain why they failed to develop them and if the government is not...
More »CPI(M) leaders approach court
-The Hindu Kochi: Ten senior CPI(M) leaders including party general secretary Prakash Karat, Polit Bureau member Pinarayi Vijayan and Leader of the Opposition V. S. Achuthanandan have approached the High Court of Kerala on Tuesday for quashing the criminal proceedings initiated against them by the Chief Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Thiruvananthapuram. The court had earlier issued summons against the petitioners following a complaint filed by by Neyyattinkara P. Nagaraj, which stated...
More »Win-all: HC judgment favours both EC, Didi
-The Hindustan Times The vexed issue of West Bengal panchayat polls has finally had an "amicable settlement" - which gives more time to the Mamata Banerjee government to prepare for the polls and upholds her demand for the use of state police for security. Instead of June, the state gets time till July 15 and the three-phase poll will be held with the help of the state armed police, said a division...
More »CAG report shows why food security will be a disaster-Vivek Kaul
-Firstpost.com On 7 May, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India presented to Parliament a Performance Audit of Storage Management and Movement of Foodgrains in Food Corporation of India. This report has gone largely unreported in the media, given that it does not contain any big number running into lakhs of crores like previous reports of the CAG did. But it clearly explains why the government of India is in no...
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