The Mumbai Press Club will hold a discussion on the gas pricing controversy, it said in a statement. The discussion will be based on Paranjoy Guha Thakurta’s book – Gas Wars: Crony Capitalism and the Ambanis and will be held on Friday, 27th June, 2014 at 2.45 PM. The price of natural gas has been […]
Any entity that is using public resources in its business and sharing revenue with the government can be audited by the government auditor, Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) Shashi Kant Sharma said at an event in New Delhi today. While the CAG would “not want to cross our boundaries”, the onus is on […]
A preliminary enquiry by the Kerala Forest Department has found that widespread forest fires in Kerala’s ecologically sensitive Wayanad region were likely to be man-made rather than natural. Fires were detected across the district on Sunday at the almost the same time. The area has been the hotbed of anti-environmentalist protests over the last three […]
The last two days have seen media barons pour scorn and outrage on Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party for suggesting that the media is corrupt. The Editors Guild, a kind of industry lobby, seemed to be shaken by Kejirwal’s statement that an inquiry would be ordered into corruption in media and guilty journalists […]
Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal questioned the anti-corruption credentials of BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, claiming that he found rampant corruption in Gujarat on his recent visit there. “I was shocked by the situation there. Not one job gets done there without bribes,” he said. Kejriwal said a lot of people are buying […]
Real Estate major DLF Ltd has vehemently denied a report in Times Now that said that the company had been allotted 23 acres of land 3.5 km away from the Parliament of India at a throwaway price. The report, aired last night by the news channel, had claimed that even the Prime Minister’s office had […]
The following is the full text of the statement from Sahara Group on the arrest of its chairman and founder Subrata Roy. “We are meeting at a time when our organization has been very wrongly interpreted and presented in public against the backdrop of the ongoing Sahara – Sebi case. As the matter is Sub-judice, […]
Investigating agencies are probing irregularities at Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd in the payment of daily wages and in purchase of diesel for mobile towers in three states, the ministry of IT and communications said in a statement. The states where the irregularities have come to notice are Bihar, Karnataka and Punjab, the ministry said. “In Karnataka […]
