Mumbai: After Ashok Chavan, former Maharashtra chief ministers Vilasrao Deshmukh and Sushil Kumar Shinde have been summoned in the Adarsh scam case. The Adarsh Judicial Commission has directed Deshmukh to appear before it on June 21 and 22. Sushil Kumar Shinde has been told to appear on June 25 and 26. Chavan had on Tuesday sought exemption to appear as a witness before the two-member commission probing the Adarsh housing...
01:28 PM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: No nepotism in distributing tickets, declaring candidates almost a year before polls, easy accessibility of the CM, PCC chief and CLP leaders to party workers and strict enforcement of discipline are some of the recommendations of the Congress committee that went into party's debacle in Uttar Pradesh. The report of the three-member committee, headed by Defence Minister AK Antony, was submitted to Congress President Sonia Gandhi a few...
03:51 AM, May 08, 2012
Istanbul: India's Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Saturday said that the government is augmenting domestic capacity for building critical and ultra-super critical technologies based power plants to meet the growing need for electricity. "Domestic capacities for building power plants with super critical and ultra-super critical technologies are being established to reduce the coal requirement of electricity production," Shinde said in his address to the World Energy Leaders Summit being...
03:49 AM, Apr 22, 2012
Mumbai: The heat is on three former Maharashtra Chief Ministers Ashok Chavan, Vilasrao Deshmukh and Sushil Kumar Shinde in the Adarsh Housing Society scam. It remains to be seen whether there will be more high-profile arrests. The CBI arrested senior IAS officer Jairaj Pathak and former State Information commissioner Ramanand Tiwari on Tuesday. They are likely to be questioned on Wednesday. Meanwhile, a special CBI court is likely decide on...
10:40 AM, Apr 04, 2012
Mumbai: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested four persons in the Adarsh Housing Society scam in Mumbai. Those arrested are retired defence estates officer RC Thakur, Brigadier (retired) MM Wanchoo, former deputy secretary of the urban development department PV Deshmukh and former MLC Kanhaiyalal Gidwani. Gidwani is already in judicial custody in another case. Earlier in January 2011, the CBI had registered an FIR against 14 people. The...
12:03 PM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi: The day is not far off when a Dalit would be nominated as Prime Minister by Congress, a senior party leader said on Sunday. "Congress has made 4 CMs in different states in past. Day is not far when it will give a dalit PM, not for votes but for dalit empowerment," party leader Anil Shastri posted in popular microblogging site Twitter. The statement comes in the wake...
11:45 PM, Oct 16, 2011
New Delhi: Just days before Diwali, the country is dangerously close to a big power crisis with many areas already seeing hours of load shedding. The government on Friday promised an improvement within five days. However, in West Bengal, the Kolaghat Power Plant is left with only 20 hours of electricity while the Bakreshwar plant is left with just one day of power. In New Delhi, the Rajghat plant may...
08:39 PM, Oct 14, 2011
New Delhi: Despite reports that NTPC plants have coal for just a day or two, Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde sounded optimistic, saying the situation will improve in 4-5 days. "Some mines are flooded due to heavy rains. The situation is improving slowly and coal is being transported to plants very quickly. We are transporting coal to plants which are left with two or three days of stock. Diwali will...
02:51 PM, Oct 14, 2011
Solapur: Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Sunday said he was willing to be a mediator and talk to Anna Hazare if Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wanted him to do so. Shinde, a former Maharashtra chief minister who knows Anna well, said there should be discussions and it will take place. Anna hails from Ahmednagar in Maharashtra. Talking to reporters, Shinde said that government wanted to curb the corruption,...
07:13 PM, Aug 21, 2011
Mumbai: Maharashtra's political fraternity on Sunday condoled the death of veteran Bollywood actor Shammi Kapoor. The 79-year-old actor was on dialysis for the last few days and was admitted to the intensive care unit of the Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai where he breathed his last at 5:15 a.m. Maharashtra Governor K. Sankaranarayanan expressed condolences on the actor's demise, saying that Shammi was an iconic figure and a rage for...
11:53 AM, Aug 15, 2011
Mumbai: Condoling the death of veteran actor Shammi Kapoor, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Sunday said the industry has lost an "iconic figure". The 79-year-old actor died in the morning at Breach Candy Hospital. Chavan said, "With his death, the industry has lost an iconic figure." Union Minister for Science and Technology Vilasrao Deshmukh, "Shammi Kapoor was a superstar of our era. His dance style was a rage in...
11:24 AM, Aug 14, 2011
New Delhi: Sources on Sunday told CNN-IBN that Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde was being questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team in the Adarsh Housing Society scam at his residence in New Delhi. Shinde was the chief minister of Maharashtra when files related to the Adarsh building located in upscale Colaba were processed and now the CBI is recording his statement as witness in the scam....
12:27 PM, Jul 31, 2011
Mumbai: Union minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has been summoned to appear as a witness before the two-member enquiry commission probing the Adarsh Housing Society scam. Union Power Minister Shinde was chief minister of Maharashtra when files related to the Adarsh building located in upscale Colaba were processed. Shinde, as chief minister, had accepted a proposal sent by Ashok Chavan, the then revenue minister between 2001-2003, recommending 40 per cent allotment...
05:55 PM, May 02, 2011
Mumbai: Former secretary to Maharashtra chief minister, Subhash Lalla, has resigned from his current post of state human rights commission chief following allegations of his involvement in the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society scam. Lalla had earlier refused to quit when asked by Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan. Lalla was secretary to the then chief minister Sushil Kumar Shinde when the Adarsh files were being processed. Lalla and Maharashtra Chief Information Commissioner...
12:47 PM, Jan 03, 2011
New Delhi: With Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan's on the way out, the hunt for the next chief minister of the state has started. The two-member committee headed by Defence Minister AK Antony and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will also look into the involvement of then chief ministers Sushil Kumar Shinde and Vilasrao Deshmukh in the Adarsh society scam. But with no proof yet of their direct involvement, it may...
05:23 PM, Oct 30, 2010
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