On Talking Point Rajdeep Sardesai asks if, Sheila Dikshit should be asked to step down on the basis of CAG report. ...
11:44 PM, Aug 05, 2011
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dixit is facing the Opposition's wrath after the CAG report on Friday tabled in Parliament. The Opposition demanded her resignation, but the Congress stood by her, saying a CAG report is not an indictment. The report held the Delhi Chief Minister responsible for wasteful expenditure to the tune of several hundred crore rupees and was used as cannon fodder by the Opposition. "Shiela Dixit...
10:40 PM, Aug 05, 2011
New Delhi: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) in its report submitted in Parliament on Friday said that the Coast Guard is operating ships that are too old. The report, the first one after 26/11 Mumbai attacks, said almost 50 per cent of the Coast Guard's offshore patrol vessels and 72 per cent of fast patrol craft need to be decommissioned. The report also said even newly inducted vessels lack...
08:29 PM, Aug 05, 2011
New Delhi: It's not just Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit who will be under the scanner once the CAG report is tabled. Even the Prime Minister's office faces some tough questions over the appointment of Suresh Kalmadi as CWG OC chief. As first reported by CNN-IBN, late Sports Minister Sunil Dutt had complained to the Prime Minister way back in November 2004 that he suspected forgery of the GoM notes...
07:26 AM, Aug 05, 2011
Sheila Dixit needs to answer more than one question on why so much of money went down the drain. ...
11:22 PM, Aug 03, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi government on Wednesday came out in the open against the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report that blames it for wasteful expenditure worth Rs 130 crore in CWG projects. Though Chief Minister Shiela Dixit herself did not react to the charges, the Chief Secretary on Wednesday gave a point by point rebuttal. The Shiela Dixit government on Tuesday found itself dragged into the Commonwealth Games mess...
10:18 PM, Aug 03, 2011
New Delhi: After slamming the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report during his deposition on Monday, DB Realty promoter and 2G accused Shahid Balwa dragged in the then external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee and then solicitor general GE Vahanvati on the telecom policy. Balwa claimed the duo was aware of the telecom policy and knew everything. He also said that the Prime Minister had endorsed all the decisions and that...
11:13 AM, Aug 01, 2011
Patna: Fourteen working Public Sector Units in Bihar are in bad shape and have incurred an aggregate loss of Rs 1187.37 crore, according to a CAG report for the year ended March 31, 2010. The CAG report pointed out that the state had 65 PSUs as on March 31, 2010, including 61 companies and four statutory corporations as against 63 PSUs comprising 59 companies and four statutory corporations on March...
04:03 PM, Jul 20, 2011
Hyderabad: Hitting out at the UPA government over the issues of corruption and black money, CPI general secretary A B Bardhan on Wednesday alleged that the Centre had failed to take effective steps to check the malaise. CPI leaders S Sudhakar Reddy and Gurudas Dasgupta had been raising the issues in Parliament since 2008 and had even written to the Prime Minister, he said. "Did Manmohan Singh reply? No. How...
12:55 AM, Jun 16, 2011
New Delhi: The 2G heat has hardly died down and the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has again embarrassed the Congress-led UPA government. The CAG's first ever audit of oil companies has said that the government favoured private oil explorers including the Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Ltd incurring a loss to the exchequer. The CAG report mentions that the oil ministry and its regulatory arm - the Directorate...
09:41 AM, Jun 13, 2011
New Delhi: Air India pilots are on strike as a fallout of the merger of Air India and Indian Airlines. While Air India today staring at a loss of over Rs 13,000 crore and the management is struggling to operate daily services, the Civil Aviation Ministry could have saved the national career from this mess. The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) believes Air India incurred Rs 10,000 crore...
09:45 PM, May 05, 2011
New Delhi: Air India pilots are on strike as a fallout of the merger of Air India and Indian Airlines. While Air India today staring at a loss of over Rs 13,000 crore and the management is struggling to operate daily services, the Civil Aviation Ministry could have saved the national career from this mess. The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) believes Air India incurred Rs 10,000 crore...
09:45 PM, May 05, 2011
New Delhi: Parliament's Public Accounts Committee chief Murli Manohar Joshi on Wednesday criticised Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal for questioning the CAG report on the 2G scam. The BJP leader said that Sibal's comments were improper and they showed the CAG and the PAC in poor light. Joshi also added that the PAC had asked him to take any step to stop a repeat of such statements by the minister. CAG...
06:33 PM, Jan 12, 2011
New Delhi: Terming as "highly objectionable" Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal's remarks on CAG's projection of the loss in 2G spectrum allocation, Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy on Saturday alleged that it was an attempt to influence investigations into the scam. Swamy said the court should take suo motu notice of the contempt of court committed by the Minister, who made statements about the case when the Supreme Court had passed...
01:37 PM, Jan 08, 2011
New Delhi: Private schools in Delhi have been charging more fees from students than they have been authorized to take. CNN-IBN has accessed a CAG report that reveals how private schools have been hiking student fees in an unauthorized manner. The report in fact, shows how schools have been passing on the burden of teachers' salaries on students. Many of the private schools in the Capital have been charging parents...
09:12 AM, Dec 09, 2010
Delhi: Anil Ambani's Reliance Communications On Thursday refuted the CAG report on 2G spectrum scam that was tabled in Parliament on Tuesday. In a statement, the company defended itself saying it had no holding in Swan Telecom when the 2G license was granted. The CAG report on 2G scam had said Anil Ambani's firm Reliance Communications had been given undue benefits in the spectrum allocation. The statement also said that...
03:02 PM, Nov 18, 2010
New Delhi: The CAG report, tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, has made it clear that former Telecom Minister A Raja bent the rules for accommodating a few new operators in 2008 without reconsidering the old entry fee discovered in 2001, ignoring the advice of the Prime Minister. Stating that the 2G spectrum allocation process lacked transparency, the report said Raja's decision had cost the exchequer Rs 1,39,652 crore and that...
12:50 PM, Nov 16, 2010
New Delhi: The CAG report on the 2G scam to be tabled in Parliament today. The Opposition reiterates its demand for a JPC probe. ...
11:00 AM, Nov 16, 2010
New Delhi: The CAG report on the 2G scam to be tabled in Parliament today. The Opposition reiterates its demand for a JPC probe. ...
11:00 AM, Nov 16, 2010
New Delhi: The CAG report on the 2G spectrum scam was tabled in the Parliament on Tuesday even as the opposition continued to demand a Joint Parliamentary Committee to probe the accusations against former Telecom Minister A Raja. The Rajya Sabha was adjourned till 2:00 pm immediately after the report was tabled, while the Lok Sabha was adjourned till Thursday. The CAG report will now be taken up by Public...
08:41 AM, Nov 16, 2010
