New Delhi: Rubbishing Team Anna's charges of irregularities in allocation of coal blocks when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held the portfolio, the government on Wednesday insisted that it was not aware of any report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on the basis of which the allegations were levelled. A day after the Prime Minister offered to quit public life if allegations of corruption against him were proven, Coal...
08:31 PM, May 30, 2012
Kanpur/New Delhi: Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal courted controversy by saying that many government departments suck blood like mosquitoes but he clarified on Monday this remark was not aimed at the Finance Ministry. "For only 100 crore rupees revenue I realise how much you will have to go through. Like mosquitoes in the night, in our country there are some departments that also suck blood," he said on Sunday at an...
04:41 PM, Mar 26, 2012
Union Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal on Sunday criticised the excise duty hike on jewellery in the Budget. ...
12:43 PM, Mar 26, 2012
New Delhi: State-run Coal India (CIL) on Friday handed over a Rs 5,400 crore dividend cheque to the government for the ongoing fiscal. "CIL presented Rs 5,400.49 crore as dividend to the Government for the year 2011-12," an official statement said. The acting Chairman and Managing Director of CIL Zohra Chatterji presented the dividend cheque to the Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal, it said. "CIL has made a substantial profit of...
04:50 AM, Mar 24, 2012
New Delhi: Save Ganga activist GD Aggarwal also known as Swami Gyan Swarup Sanand broke his fast against dams on the Ganga at the Jawahar Auditorium in All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Friday. He broke his fast by taking a glass of fruit juice. His supports said that even though Sanand had ended his fast but his fight against dams on the Ganga would continue. Union Coal...
02:42 PM, Mar 23, 2012
New Delhi: There seems to be no end to the woes of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government. Ever since the alliance stormed back to power in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections its tenure has been marked with allegations of corruption and the Opposition has been claiming that the second term of the Manmohan Singh regime is the most corrupt in the history of India. Even as the UPA...
11:38 AM, Mar 22, 2012
Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal refused to comment on media reports, but Shakeel Ahmed said 'it seems it's not a scam but a loss'. ...
11:02 AM, Mar 22, 2012
New Delhi: Giving a clean chit to Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal on his President's Rule comments, the Election Commission on Thursday said his tone and tenor did not suggest any threat or intimidation to voters. "The Commission is of the view that the tone and tenor and context of the impugned speech of Shri Jaiswal do not suggest any threat or intimidation to voters," the Commission said in its order....
09:06 PM, Mar 01, 2012
Mathura: After his controversial comments about imposition of President's rule in Uttar Pradesh, Union Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal on Saturday created a flutter when he said that Rahul Gandhi could become Prime Minister 'even at midnight if he so desires'. "If Rahul wants he can be the Prime Minister at 12 tonight and no one can stop him. But he doesn't want to be the Prime Minsiter or the Chief Minsiter,"...
08:46 PM, Feb 25, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP on Thursday moved the Election Commission over Union minister Sriprakash Jaiswal's comments on possibility of imposition of President's rule in Uttar Pradesh after which the poll body has sought a video of his remarks. The BJP complained against Jaiswal's remarks to Uttar Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer Umesh Sinha, who has forwarded the complaint to the Election Commission in Delhi. Sinha said, "A complaint from the BJP...
01:03 AM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: As the young guns are on the war path in Uttar Pradesh, so far both Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav have avoided taking each other on personally. Now as mixed reports come in on who holds the edge the gloves are coming off. The Congress going all out on Thursday to dispel any notion that it may prop up a Samajwadi Party led government in Uttar Pradesh. Congress...
10:58 PM, Feb 23, 2012
Sriprakash Jaiswal said his statement was distorted and that he was confident of the Cong winning in UP. ...
01:15 PM, Feb 23, 2012
New Delhi: Congress leader Sriprakash Jaiswal has been pulled up by the party for his remarks that if his party fails to get a majority in the UP polls, it will seek imposition of President's rule in the state. Sources said on Thursday that the party thinks that Jaiswal should not have made these comments. Jaiswal on Wednesday said, "If Congress gets majority then it will form the government...if some...
12:11 PM, Feb 23, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP on Thursday took strong exception to Union Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal's reported remark that the next UP Chief Minister will be from Congress whose "remote will be in Rahulji's hands", saying that the constitutional posts should be spoken of with respect. "Chief Minister's post is a constitutionally provided post...where is the respect for the institution when words like remote-control are used," BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said at...
10:39 PM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: A day after the impressive turnout of about 64 per cent electorate in the first phase of Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress on Thursday exuded confidence of forming the next government in the state on its own. "We are getting 200 plus seats in the 403-member House and will form the government on our own," Union Minister and Congress leader Sriprakash Jaiswal said. Jaiswal said Rahul...
06:33 PM, Feb 09, 2012
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