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 …
MUMBAI: In an explosive revelation, a whistle-blower in the state government has said a staggering Rs 35,000 crore was siphoned off and wasted on dud irrigation projects in the past decade. The Maharashtra government has spent Rs 70,000 crore on such projects across the state during this period. Vijay Pandhare, …
The Indian Medical Association has morphed into a body representing the trade and commerce of medicine rather than the practice of medicine as a whole. Given the increasingly commercial and corporatised nature of healthcare, organisations like the IMA should provide leadership and a sense of direction to the individual medical …
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday intervened in the Delhi assembly discussion on public distribution system during Question Hour and noted that her government agreed with the Opposition that there was corruption in the system and therefore it was “looking for ways to provide ration and cash transfers to the …
The Central Bureau of Investigation Tuesday filed its first set of cases in the coal blocks allotment scandal, accusing Congress MP Vijay Darda and his brother Rajendra Darda, who is a minister in Maharashtra, among others, of criminal conspiracy, cheating and misrepresentation of facts. The FIRs registered by the agency …
Liberia's forestry department has given a quarter of the nation's land to logging firms over the past two years in a flurry of shady deals now under investigation by the government, advocacy group Global Witness said on Tuesday. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, fending off accusations of graft and nepotism within …
The CAG issued a press release on Aug 31, 2012 for its “Performance Audit Report No. 10 of 2012-13 of hydropower projects for the 11th 5-year plan ending on March 31, 2012. This CAG audit is an extremely weak and inadequate work of the CAG. In fact it does not …
Tamil Nadu government has issued a lookout notice against Union Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister M.K. Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi Alagiri for his alleged involvement in the multi-crore granite mining scam. But the state opposed a bunch of petitions in the Madras High Court seeking a CBI probe into the illegal …
Even as the controversy over the Comptroller and Auditor-General’s (CAG) report on coal blocks allocation that reportedly caused a loss of Rs. 1.86 lakh crore to the national exchequer rages, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has said coal allocations and mining, in future, should be done through the public …
An inter-ministerial panel under the coal ministry will decide the fate of allocation of 17 captive coal blocks allotted to big corporate houses, next week. This is on the back of severe delays in their development. This comes close on the heels of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) investigating …
New Delhi:Criticized for tardy probe progress coupled with acute shortage of officers to investigate cases, the CBI got a relief in National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam investigations as the Uttar Pradesh government has constituted a special court for all the health scheme fraud cases. The UP government issued anotification …
A new Greenpeace India campaign is gearing up to take on the Indian coal industry, coal ministry and even the Prime Minister. The environmental action group is determined to create awareness about how coal mining in Central India destroys forests, forest dependent communities, endangered tigers and other wildlife. Of course, …
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to begin filing formal cases against companies involved in the coal mine allocation controversy by the end of August, a senior official in the agency told ET on condition of anonymity. Individual FIRs will be filed against companies that were …
The Congress-led UPA government responded aggressively to the three reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), which accused it of pursuing policies that conferred benefits upon private companies while depriving the exchequer of revenue. The government fielded two ministers—minister of state V Narayanswami and minister for coal …
New Delhi: It’s official now. The comptroller and auditor general has said that the government extended windfall gains of Rs 1.86 lakh crore to private players by distributing coal blocks without bidding over years, escalating UPA’s fight with the opposition over corruption amid the latter’s calls for Prime Minister Manmohan …
NEW DELHI: The Congress-led UPA government responded aggressively to the three reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), which accused it of pursuing policies that conferred benefits upon private companies while depriving the exchequer of revenue. The government fielded two ministers—minister of state V Narayanswami and minister …
A public interest litigation (PIL) filed in the Bombay High Court has alleged that an unholy nexus of contractors, officers and politicians has siphoned off Rs 26,000 crore meant for irrigation projects in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra. The division bench of Justices Pratap Hardas and M L Tahaliyani has issued …
PANJIM: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report on mining, which was not accepted by former Speaker Pratapsing Rane of the previous Goa Assembly, has been quoted in the new draft State Mining Policy 2012, which states that the delay in the policy has resulted in haphazard mining, resulting in a …
The increase in corruption in coal is closely linked to the increasing importance of this mineral in the economy and of the industry in political funding. And the rot in coal runs deep and wide, reports M Rajshekhar It was a roundtable on ‘campaign finance reforms in India’, but it …
