New Delhi: TRAI chief Rahul Khullar on Tuesday is expected to appear before the Joint Parliamentary Committee that is looking into the 2G spectrum scam. This is in connection with the Telecom regulator's recommendations to the government which Telecom companies are pressuring the government to nullify. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) had last month suggested an auction starting price that is nearly 10 times of what carriers had...
07:18 AM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Joint Parliamentary Committee examining the 2G scam has sought a copy of the Presidential Reference made by the Centre before the Supreme Court on its February 2 decision on allocation of second generation radiowaves. "Three days back we have written to the government seeking a certified copy of the Reference," JPC Chairman PC Chacko said on Thursday. He said since the panel was examining the issue, it...
02:10 PM, Apr 19, 2012
New Delhi: Former Telecom Secretary Siddharth Behura, facing trial in the 2G spectrum allocation case, has sought more time from a Parliamentary panel examining the telecom policies to appear before it. The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) had decided to summon Behura as a witness before it on April 11 and 18 and a CBI court had recently granted him permission to appear before the panel. But Behura lodged in Tihar...
05:28 PM, Apr 05, 2012
Bangalore: BJP on Saturday asked the Centre to institute a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the issues raised by Army Chief General VK Singh in his letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Party General Secretary HN Ananth Kumar said only JPC could bring out the truth into the remarks Gen Singh has made in the letters that were leaked last week. In the letter, Gen Singh had asked the...
03:21 AM, Apr 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Department of Economic Affairs of the Finance Ministry will depose before the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC). This came a day after Joint Parliamentary Committee met on the loss due to the 2G scam and grilled CAG Vinod Rai. Tuesday's deposition is regarding an internal note by the Finance Ministry on the 2G case with reference to the then finance minister P Chidambaram. The note had not only...
09:19 AM, Dec 20, 2011
New Delhi: Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai is expected to depose the Joint Parliamentary Panel looking into the 2G scam once again. He will have to explain how the government auditor arrived at the presumptive loss figure of Rs 1.76 lakh crore. While Congress members disagree with the top auditor's estimate of Rs 1.76 lakh-crore loss to the exchequer and intend to grill him further, BJP MPs in the...
08:29 AM, Dec 19, 2011
New Delhi: The chairman of the Parliamentary Accounts Committee (PAC), Murli Manohar Joshi, will on Wednesday answer all the allegations on influencing the CAG report on 2G losses when he speaks at a function where Both Vinod Rai and RP Singh are slated to be present. CNN-IBN has accessed a letter that shows he was in touch with the auditor even before the report was tabled, this on a day...
06:47 AM, Nov 16, 2011
New Delhi: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Vinod Rai, on Tuesday appeared before the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) in connection with the 2G spectrum allocation scam probe. According to reports, Rai stood by his report and asserted that lead auditor R P Singh was party to it. Sources said that Rai gave a detailed presentation on the loss figures. He further said that there was no question of...
03:29 PM, Nov 15, 2011
New Delhi: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), Vinod Rai, is expected to depose before the Joint Parliament Committee (JPC) in the 2G spectrum allocation scam probe on Tuesday. Rai is expected to explain to the parliamentary panel how the government's auditor arrived at a presumptive loss figure of Rs 1.76 lakh crore. His former lead auditor RP Singh appeared before the JPC on Monday and reportedly stuck...
06:31 AM, Nov 15, 2011
Deputy CAG Rekha Gupta wrote a note directing RP Singh to put his signatures on the last page of the report. ...
10:46 PM, Nov 14, 2011
New Delhi: Did the 2G scam cost the country Rs 1.76 lakh crore or was that figure inflated? RP Singh, the lead auditor of the CAG who investigated the scam, on Monday told the Joint Parlimentary Committee that he was forced into signing on the inflated loss amount. CNN-IBN has accesed letters which prove that RP Singh was indeed under preassure. Internal notes show RP Singh may have been arm...
06:13 PM, Nov 14, 2011
New Delhi: India's Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai and former Director General RP Singh are expected to depose separately before the Joint Parliamentary Committee in connection with the 2G spectrum scam on Monday. This is likely to happen keeping in mind the objections raised by the UPA over the role of the CAG earlier. The JPC is likely to seek an explanation from both officials about the discrepancies in...
07:55 AM, Nov 14, 2011
New Delhi: The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on Monday said it will examine the Comptroller Auditor General over the Rs 2645 crore versus 1.76 lakh crore figure in the 2G spectrum allocation scam. They also added that the Finance secretary will also be examined in the case. Against the backdrop of dispute over the figure in the 2G spectrum allocation, CAG Vinod Rai on Sunday had offered to appear before...
02:15 PM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: Against the backdrop of dispute over the figure of Rs 1.76 lakh crore loss in 2G spectrum allocation, CAG Vinod Rai has offered to appear before the JPC looking into the 2G scam once again. Rai recently wrote to JPC offering to make himself along with his officials 'available' whenever their 'assistance' is sought. Rai, along with other officials of the Comptroller and Auditor General, had appeared before...
11:53 AM, Oct 30, 2011
New Delhi: Fresh controversy is set to erupt over Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai's loss estimates on the 2G spectrum sale. CAG documents accessed through Right to Information Act (RTI) by accused show that CAG overruled its own auditor on 2G loss calculation. According to Director General Audit (Post & Telecommunications) RP Singh the issue of Unified Access Service (UAS) licences and allotment of 2G spectrum caused a...
01:48 PM, Sep 28, 2011
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