The Central Bureau of Investigation has initiated investigations in two cases relating to alleged irregularities in steel major SAIL's corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, Parliament was informed on Monday. "The CBI has since initiated investigation in two cases relating to irregularities in CSR activities of SAIL," Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha. ...
04:53 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma on Monday accused Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav in the Lok Sabha of having links with terrorists. Speaking in the Lok Sabha, Beni Prasad said, "Terror is neither Hindu nor Muslim. Mulayam helped Narendra Modi come to power in Gujarat. Mulayam supports terrorism." ...
12:52 PM, Mar 18, 2013
More politicians are getting "Z-plus" security and the new entrants include Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma and BSP MP Brajesh Pathak months after the list of VIPs in this category was pruned during P Chidambaram's tenure as Home Minister. ...
08:40 AM, Mar 09, 2013
Lucknow: Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma on Monday said the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Samajwadi party (SP) were "under compulsion" to support the Congress-led central government to complete its full term. But he refused to elaborate further saying the compulsion was "well known". "'Yeh main bhi jaanta hoon aur aap bhi jaante hain, darasal aap mujhse behtar jaante hain ki ve kyon samarthan denge' (I as well as...
12:22 AM, Nov 20, 2012
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11:44 PM, Oct 15, 2012
Union minister Beni Prasad Verma created quite a flutter today when he said 71 lakh rupees was too small an amount to be scam. He was later forced to clarify his remark. ...
09:25 PM, Oct 15, 2012
New Delhi: Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma's comments on the charges against his Cabinet colleague Salman Khurshid on Monday saw the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) taking potshots at him and asking him to concentrate on his ministry's functioning instead of creating such gaffes. "Beni Prasad Verma is another Digvijay Singh. He is not focusing on his ministry and is giving such statements," BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain told reporters in...
08:02 PM, Oct 15, 2012
New Delhi: Hours after giving a bizarre defence on the controversy surrounding Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid, senior Congress leader Beni Prasad Verma has now said that even one rupee constitutes corruption. Earlier on Monday, the Congress leader from Uttar Pradesh had said that Rs 71 lakh was too small an amount for Khurshid to do a scam. Defending the Law Minister over the issue, the Congress leader from Uttar...
06:06 PM, Oct 15, 2012
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Beni Prasad Verma on Monday backed Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid over the controversy surrounding his trust saying he would not do any scam for an amount as small as Rs 71 lakh. Defending the Law Minister over the issue, the Congress leader from Uttar Pradesh said, "Rs 71 lakh is a small amount for a Central Minister. A person like Salman Khurshid will not...
03:37 PM, Oct 15, 2012
Barabanki: Terming the FDI in retail as an "essential injection" to boost the country's economy, Union minister Beni Prasad Verma on Saturday said there would be no problem even if the government had to be sacrificed in the process of taking harsh decisions to maintain economy. "The foreign direct investment in retail is an essential injection to boost the health of country's economy," Verma said. The Union Steel Minister said,...
12:31 AM, Sep 23, 2012
New Delhi: India is expected to become the world's second largest producer of crude steel in next two years on the back of new steel projects and expansion plans of domestic players, the government on Tuesday said. According to an official release, Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma told a delegation of journalists from Korea and Philippines that with the ongoing Greenfield and Brownfield expansions, India is expected to become the...
04:58 AM, Sep 19, 2012
Lucknow: Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma on Monday attacked Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav's "prime ministerial ambitions", saying it would never happen. Speaking on the sidelines of a function at Barabanki, 30 km from here, he said Mulayam Singh, his one-time-friend and colleague was "day dreaming" of clinching the prime minister's chair. Reacting to the statement of Mulayam Singh last week when he had exhorted SP workers...
01:58 AM, Aug 21, 2012
New Delhi: Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma has put his party in a spot again by saying that the next Lok Sabha elections in 2014 could be a direct fight between Congress general secretary and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Narendra Modi. Verma hit out at Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav over his prime ministerial ambitions, saying the next Prime Minister will be either a Congress leader or...
06:05 PM, Aug 20, 2012
Barabanki(UP): In comments that are not likely to go down well with the Samajwadi Party, Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma has said the UP government has not been able to function properly due to "interference" of Mulayam Singh Yadav. "Due to interference of Mulayam, the state government could not function properly and he was responsible for this", the Minister of Steel alleged. He, however, said that UP Chief Minister Akhilesh...
12:00 PM, Aug 20, 2012
New Delhi: The government on Thursday approved the sale of 10.82 per cent of its stake in Steel Authority of India (SAIL), which may fetch the exchequer over Rs 4,000 crore. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, this evening has cleared SAIL public offer, official sources said. The share sale process, proposed to be conducted through auction route or offer for sale, is...
08:57 PM, Jul 19, 2012
The Cabinet deferred the stake sale in SAIL since Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma is not present in Delhi. ...
01:40 PM, Jul 12, 2012
New Delhi: The Cabinet on Thursday deferred a decision on selling 10.82 per cent stake in Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) as Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma was away on official tour. The Steel Minister is in Tokyo on an official tour and could not attend the Cabinet meeting. In the absence of Verma and Steel Secretary, who is also in Tokyo, the Cabinet did not take up the...
12:19 PM, Jul 12, 2012
New Delhi: Steel minister Beni Prasad Verma on Sunday said NRI billionaire LN Mittal should stop "maligning" India and its government, asking why the steel baron was not setting up his plants in the country. "He should stop maligning India and the Indian government. Why is he not beginning work on his projects," Verma said. Mittal, chairman and CEO of world's largest steel company, ArcelorMittal, had said in New York...
02:57 PM, Jul 01, 2012
Lucknow: Congress is in a self-analysis mode after its performance in the Assembly Polls in five states. The senior leadership says that the party has to introspect on the poll rout. Clearly, dynasty politics failed to work, with the children, spouses and siblings of senior leaders, all failing to make a successful debut. Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi was pitched as the party's star campaigner, who would singularly revive the...
04:21 PM, Mar 07, 2012
New Delhi/Lucknow: With exit polls predicting a hung assembly in Uttar Pradesh, Beni Prasad Verma, Union Minister and senior Congress leader from the state, on Sunday caused a flutter in the party by favouring a tie-up with Mayawati's BSP, a comment from which the party quickly distanced itself. Verma, who quit Samajwadi Party in 2007 following differences with Mulayam Singh Yadav, said he would personally prefer BSP to SP, which...
04:16 AM, Mar 05, 2012
