Order of the High Court of Uttarakhand (WPPIL No. 202 OF 2024 with WPPIL NO.174 OF 2024) in the matter of mining operations in Bageshwar district, Uttarakhand. The order was passed by the Chief Justice of Uttarakhand High Court Guhanathan Narendar and Justice Manoj Kumar Tiwari. In compliance with the …
It is not just about large-scale financial and political irregularities. Maharashtra’s irrigation scam has put a question mark on the validity of the state’s high-cost irrigation policy itself. Under this policy very little irrigated area has been created in the state despite hundreds of dams being constructed and thousands of …
It will help people eligible for benefits flowing out of welfare programmes Moving swiftly on the announcement he made at a public rally in Dudu in Rajasthan five days ago, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh constituted a high-power National Committee on Direct Cash Transfers on Thursday in a bid to reduce …
National: India Against Corruption leader Arvind Kejriwal’s allegation against BJP president Nitin Gadkari that his NGO has pocketed surplus land from a dam project at the expense of farmers falls flat considering what the farmers have to say. “We have been tilling our part of the surplus land for many …
Even as the state government has shown concern about the poor rainfall in the drought-hit Marathwada, it has not taken any action against those responsible for the multi-crore scam in the region. The Rs2,452-crore irrigation projects undertaken in Marathwada has met numerous hurdles because of wrong designs, leading to incomplete …
Activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal’s India Against Corruption Wednesday alleged that BJP president Nitin Gadkari sought and secured for a trust run by him 37 hectares of land which was acquired by the Maharashtra government to build a dam in Vidarbha but eventually not used. Gadkari was an MLA and Maharashtra BJP …
The former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa has been accused of misusing his office to receive a Rs. 20-crore kickback from the South West Mining company in a quid pro quo deal for waiving Rs. 890 crore due to the State government from the company, according to a charge sheet filed …
Points to power, infra issues, graft scams, higher investor uncertainty The World Bank on Wednesday cut India's economic growth projection to six per cent for the current financial year from the earlier 6.9 per cent estimate, blaming the slowdown on corruption scandals and a host of policy issues, including uncertainty …
Justice M B Shah Commission, which is probing the mining scam in different states, shall have to visit Odisha for third time as it cannot complete the probe in its current visit. It has found the probe very ‘tough’ and ‘complicated’ task to dig out the full scale of corruption …
UNITED NATIONS, 10 OCT: While the Opposition is going hammer and tongues at the UPA government over various issues, BJP leader LK Advani complimented its flagship programme, MGNREGA, which he said has helped empower rural people and revive economic growth. “This programme has helped break down social inequalities, empower rural …
New Delhi: Mocking Union ministers P Chidambaram, Salman Khurshid and Veerappa Moily for their defence of Robert Vadra, activistturned-politician Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday pointed out that in 2007, Haryana government handed over 30 acres of land it had acquired for a hospital to DLF for its SEZ venture. He noted …
The state government has decided to set up a panel headed by chief secretary Jayant Kumar Banthia to investigate the financial irregularities in the multi-crore irrigation projects in Maharashtra. The decision to hand over the probe has been taken to ascertain the role of field officers involved in executing the …
MUMBAI: The Anti-Corruption Bureau has sought the state government's okay to launch an "open inquiry" against irrigation minister Sunil Tatkare over allegations of land grab and disproportionate assets. A "discreet inquiry" against the senior NCP leader, sources said, is already complete. The ACB now wants authorization for the second stage …
Maharashtra Governor K Sankarnarayanan today accepted the resignation of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who quit following reports about his alleged involvement in a Rs20,000 crore irrigation scam. Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan met the governor this morning and handed over Pawar's resignation. "The governor has accepted Ajit Pawar's resignation …
The massive cost escalation of irrigations dotted across Konkan, Vidarbha, Marathwada, North Maharashtra and western Maharashtra, which works up to Rs26,000 crore, have proved to be a nightmare for Ajit Pawar, who quit as the deputy chief minister on Tuesday. The NCP leader held the portfolio of water resources minister …
19 More Ministers Offer To Resign, Sharad Says No Mumbai: Maharashtra deputy chief minister and NCP leader Ajit Pawar resigned from the Democratic Front government on Tuesday evening, in a dramatic development which brought to the fore his party’s simmering tension with the Congress but which should not lead to …
A 20-year campaign of scientific fraud says as much about the research community as it does about the perpetrator. The system that allowed such deception to continue must be reformed. (Editorial)
One of the biggest purges of the scientific literature in history is finally getting under way. After more than a decade of suspicion about the work of anaesthesiologist Yoshitaka Fujii, formerly of Toho University in Tokyo, investigations by journals and universities have concluded that he fabricated data on an epic …
The office of the Comptroller and Auditor General is an essential instrument for enforcing the accountability of the executive to Parliament. It is wrong, as in the coal blocks and other recent cases, to cast aspersions on the CAG for pointing out the omissions and commissions of the government. The …
Needs many factors to be sorted out at the same time, from the Naxal threat to poor rail links. This year will possibly see higher coal production in India because it has sorted out a crippling problem — the last two years’ shortage of railway wagons to ferry coal from …
