The Comptroller and Auditor General's (CAG) final report on the farm debt waiver scheme highlighted loopholes and pointed out irregularities in implementation of the Rs 52,000 crore scheme. The report was tabled in Parliament on Tuesday. ...
12:44 PM, Mar 05, 2013
The Comptroller and Auditor General's (CAG) final report on the farm debt waiver scheme is likely to be tabled in Parliament on Tuesday. Sources said the report is fairly critical of its implementation, alleging that beneficiaries of the scheme were selected randomly and did not reach the needy farmers. ...
09:55 AM, Mar 05, 2013
Autopsy of Indian-origin businessman Urooj Khan, who died in 2012 after winning a $1 million jackpot, found no trace of cyanide in his body apparently because it dissolves quickly, a medical examiner has said. "The route of administration of cyanide cannot be confirmed in the autopsy," Dr Stephen Cina, the Cook County Medical examiner, told reporters at a news conference in Chicago on Friday. ...
12:52 PM, Mar 02, 2013
President Barack Obama acknowledged on Friday that he wished his father had been a bigger part of his life as he argued that stronger families are just as important as gun control in reducing crime and violence in poverty-stricken neighborhoods. Obama returned to his old home neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago with a different take on his gun control message - that it will require an improved home...
01:28 PM, Feb 16, 2013
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10:59 PM, Feb 15, 2013
Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai on Friday took a potshot at the government, saying the governance in these days has become too important to be left to the government, even as he virtually called ministers, MPs and MLAs typical bullies. ...
09:57 PM, Feb 15, 2013
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a decision to revoke the operating licences of several mobile phone companies after police said the sale of the licences was tainted by corruption. ...
02:40 AM, Feb 15, 2013
Lady Gaga says she's "heartsick" to postpone four shows after sustaining an injury that's left her unable to walk. ...
11:45 AM, Feb 13, 2013
Mario Balotelli earned and converted a late penalty as AC Milan drew 1-1 at 10-man Cagliari in Serie A. ...
10:30 PM, Feb 10, 2013
Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh on Friday hit back at Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai after he blamed the government of crony capitalism during a speech at Harvard. Reacting to Rai's speech, Digvijaya said, "If not an accountant, what does he want to be? The Prime Minister? The Constitution has defined the role of the CAG. How will a democracy function if judiciary does the job of the...
02:51 PM, Feb 08, 2013
In a hard-hitting speech, the Comptroller and Auditor General, Vinod Rai, has defended his role. Rai has said that the role of the public auditor cannot be confined only to placing reports in Parliament. During a speech at the Harvard Kennedy School of government, Rai spoke on the various scams in the government. ...
11:30 AM, Feb 08, 2013
India is likely to become one of the top three aviation markets in the world by 2020 provided the strong passenger growth clocked in recent times continues, a Ficci-PwC report said on Thursday. ...
12:43 AM, Feb 08, 2013
Italian Serie A club AS Roma sacked manager Zdenek Zeman after a 4-2 loss at home to Cagliari. ...
09:18 PM, Feb 02, 2013
A 15-year-old girl who had performed in US President Barack Obama's inauguration festivities is the latest face on the ever-increasing homicide toll in the President's hometown, killed in a Chicago park as she talked with friends by a gunman who apparently was not even aiming at her. ...
08:34 AM, Jan 31, 2013
In what is likely to foment more trouble for the Congress-led UPA government, sources have said that former CAG official RP Singh has admitted before the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) that he recommended the name of one of the officers involved in preparing the 2G report for foreign posting. ...
07:46 PM, Jan 29, 2013
At least five people were gunned down on January 26 in Chicago, including a 34-year-old man whose mother had already lost her three other children to shootings. Ronnie Chambers, who was his mother Shirley's youngest child was shot in the head while sitting in a parked car on the city's West Side. A 21-year-old man who was also in the car was wounded, police said. ...
03:51 PM, Jan 27, 2013
Terming the sentencing of LeT terrorist David Headley as a "positive example" of Indo-US counterterrorism cooperation, the United States defended the verdict, saying justice has been served as promised. "We promised that justice would be served, that justice is being served in this case," State Department spokesperson, Victoria Nuland told reporters, when asked about India's reservations over the court ruling. ...
09:02 AM, Jan 26, 2013
The UPA government is in more trouble. The Comptroller and Auditor General published a draft report on the farm loan waiver scheme alleging misuse of funds. According to the report, 25 per cent beneficiaries of the scheme did not get the intended benefit. ...
08:03 AM, Jan 26, 2013
The BJP on Friday demanded death penalty for LeT terrorist David Headley, the plotter of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, and asked the Centre to press for his extradition from the US to face trial in India to find out the larger conspiracy by Pakistan-based elements. ...
09:00 PM, Jan 25, 2013
Rahul Bhatt, son of Mahesh Bhatt, made the statement in an interview to CNN-IBN. ...
02:00 PM, Jan 25, 2013
