A CGM court has sought a report from the police on filing a case against former Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Secretary Shashank Shekhar. Shashank Shekhar has been accused of being involved in a corruption case involving Rs 3000 crore in the Civil Aviation Department. ...
01:29 PM, Jan 03, 2013
Lucknow: The Lucknow police have registered FIRs against four people including former Cabinet Secretary Shahshank Shekhar Singh and Senior IAS officer Navneet Sehgal. A case of criminal intimidation has been filed in the Hazrat Ganj police station on a complaint by Taj Corridor case litigant Anupama Singh. Anupama Singh alleged that she got life threats from them. The Rs 175-crore Taj Heritage corridor scam came to light in 2002-2003. The...
12:18 PM, May 26, 2012
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh, considered close to outgoing Chief Minister Mayawati, on Tuesday took premature retirement from service with effect from March 9, official sources said. "The Cabinet Secretary, whose extension period was slated to end on March 31, has taken pre-mature retirement with effect from March 9," they said. Singh, who had retired in May, 2010, was given two years extension by the state government...
12:49 AM, Mar 07, 2012
Lucknow: Hitting back at Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh over the MNREGA irregularities issue, UP Chief Minister Mayawati on Saturday asked if any other state was being "harassed" in a similar manner and whether such an environment was being created "deliberately". Questioning as to how so many shortcomings have surfaced all of a sudden, Mayawati said it was improper to give "baseless" information on the implementation of the scheme in...
02:55 PM, Nov 19, 2011
New Delhi: A week after the Supreme Court dealt a blow to the Uttar Pradesh government for acquiring the Greater Noida land for housing projects, the apex court on Friday pulled up the Uttar Pradesh government on the appointment of state Cabinet Secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh. The Supreme Court asked the state to explain under what rules were Shashank Shekhar Singh appointed the Cabinet Secretary as he is not an...
03:16 PM, Jul 15, 2011
Bundelkhand: More than 500 debt ridden farmers have committed suicide in the last 5 months Bundelkhand despite a Rs 7000 crore special package from the Centre. The story has now become a part of Bundelkhand's folklore with eight years of drought, starvation and debt, due to which there have been 2945 farmer suicides in the last 10 years and 519 farmer suicides in the last five months alone. Veerpal Rajput,...
08:40 AM, Jul 15, 2011
Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh confirmed that the postmortem of Dr Yogendra Singh Sachan was videographed and a total of 9 wounds were found on the body. ...
10:39 PM, Jun 23, 2011
The Uttar Pradesh government is on the defensive, with Opposition parties quick to question the police's suicide theory - blaming the Mayawati govvernment for trying to hush up the case. Giving the details of the report of the autopsy on the body of deputy Chief Medical Officer Y S Sachan, Cabinet Secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh said the death was caused by "excessive bleeding" and that prima facie it was a...
09:49 PM, Jun 23, 2011
Lucknow: The Mayawati government has hit back at Rahul Gandhi over his claims that several farmers were killed during the farmers' agitation in Bhatta and Parsaul villages of Greater Noida and their bodies burnt to destroy the evidence of police atrocities. Mayawati has launched a counter offensive against Rahul Gandhi. The administration is citing forensic reports to rubbish his claims of rape and mass murder in Noida's Bhatta-Parasaul. The Congress...
06:52 PM, May 19, 2011
Hyderabad: Kolkata Knight Riders' skipper Jacques Kallis has urged his team to come up with an improved performance in the main round of the Champions League Twenty20. Obviously I was very pleased to qualify for the next round because that was the main objective. So, I am very pleased. But I think it was a very average performance by us. Despite losing their final qualifier against Somerset by 11 runs,...
11:01 PM, Mar 01, 2008
Hyderabad: Alankara Silva and Janaka Gunaratne took 3 wickets each as Ruhunu XI beat Leicestershire Foxes by 4 runs in the fifth qualifying match of the Champions League Twenty20 at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Wednesday. Both teams came in looking for their first win, hoping to make it big enough to spoil the party for Kolkata Knight Riders and Somerset, who won their first games and were...
05:29 PM, Mar 01, 2008
In Uttar Pradesh the state's new Cabinet Secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh has run into trouble. ...
10:14 AM, Jun 02, 2007
