DGH Sibal had a nexus with private parties, claims CBI

Wednesday 4 November '09

Preliminary investigations by the CBI into the functioning of the office of the Director General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) has found evidence...

Adverse CBI report, so oil regulator quits

Thursday 29 October '09

V K Sibal has resigned from the post of DG of Hydrocarbons — after word reached him that CBI had found evidence of his 'nexus' with private exploration firms and service providers.

DGH Sibal seeks early retirement, offer likely to be rejected

Tuesday 27 October '09

Director General of Hydrocarbons VK Sibal, whose dealings with private exploration firms are under CBI scrutiny, has sought premature retirement...

Defence opposed, Home pushes AFSPA to PM’s table

Monday 26 October '09

Keeping in mind Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s 2004 assurance in Manipur that provisions of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act...

NREGS: Centre says no to more job days

Wednesday 21 October '09

The UPA government has refused to raise the number of job days that it provides under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act...

Alagiri flexes ally muscle, gets his Secy shunted out

Tuesday 20 October '09

Union Chemicals and Fertiliser Minister M K Alagiri has flexed his muscle, getting the Prime Minister to remove Fertilizer Secretary Atul Chaturvedi...

Rejected by Pak, urea cargo offloaded in Gujarat; Azhagiri orders probe

Thursday 8 October '09

State-run Indian Potash Ltd last month offloaded a cargo of urea that was rejected by Pakistan and whose papers were fudged to show...

Villages giving land for oil & gas production to get royalty share

Thursday 1 October '09

The petroleum ministry plans to change the royalty sharing mechanism to include direct compensation for villages and individuals...

What S M Krishna did not tell: His Ministry pushed hard to get Government to pay his five-star bills

Friday 25 September '09

Urban Development rejected MEA requests that began the day Tharoor took charge; MEA said let us pay Krishna’s bill....

Can’t milk your PSUs any more, babus told

Monday 21 September '09

Govt officials have been told that they can no longer use CPSEs for getting expensive mobile phones, chauffeur-driven cars, ACs, laptops or paying for their air travel or hotel stay.

9 years after Atal announced, work will begin on the Rohtang tunnel

Sunday 20 September '09

To secure round-the-year lines of communication to eastern Ladakh, the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) early this month...

Amendments to Mega Power Policy finalised by govt

Saturday 12 September '09

The power ministry has finalised amendments to the Mega Power Policy after dropping its key demand for freedom to project developers...

DoT closes Essar’s Loop holding case

Saturday 29 August '09

The Department of Telecom is closing the controversy over Essar Group’s cross-holding in Loop Telecom as none of the agencies concerned....

In silent BJP, Ram Naik only leader to slam Shourie: they have a history

Friday 28 August '09

While the BJP leadership has been silent on the frontal attack by Arun Shourie, one senior leader has chosen to go after him...

Parikh heads new committee to resolve issue of petroleum product pricing

Thursday 27 August '09

The baton for resolving petroleum subsidy woes has been handed — for the third time since the UPA came to power in 2004 — to a five-member committee headed by Dr Kirit S Parikh.

Rahul is heard louder than others — PM moves on Bundelkhand

Tuesday 25 August '09

When Rahul Gandhi lobbies, it works. For, the day he met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking implementation of a long-pending Central package for Bundelkhand.

Rahul is heard louder than others — PM moves on Bundelkhand

Tuesday 25 August '09

When Rahul Gandhi lobbies, it works. For, the day he met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking implementation of a long-pending Central package for Bundelkhand....

Govt chooses to keep mum on RNRL ad campaign

Thursday 20 August '09

The informal group of ministers to monitor the government’s stand on the Ambani gas dispute in the Supreme Court will meet again tomorrow to consider empowering itself.....

His Ranchi staff raided, Assam Governor is told to go

Tuesday 18 August '09

Syed Sibtey Razi, who was earlier Jharkhand Governor, has been asked to demit office and save UPA govt the embarrassment after CBI raids are said to have affirmed reports of alleged corruption under Razi’s watch.

Essar’s Loop Tele may be taxed for share transfer

Saturday 15 August '09

Essar affiliated Loop Telecom may have to cough up income tax, as in the case of the Hutch-Vodafone deal, for transfer of its shares between two overseas sister companies.

VVIP copter plan hits Finance Ministry wall

Wednesday 12 August '09

A Plan to purchase 12 helicopters for VVIPs has run into rough weather with Finance Ministry declining approval on ground that they were too expensive at Rs 310 crore a piece.

Early polls in the air, PMO to push Haryana projects

Wednesday 5 August '09

WITH the Congress party working on early polls in Haryana, as first reported by The Indian Express, the Prime Minister’s Office has been deployed to push big-ticket projects....

Citing safety, Govt bans WiFi in key offices, missions

Tuesday 4 August '09

Home Ministry has banned the use of wireless fidelity (WiFi) internet or WiFi-enabled computers in sensitive ministries.

Ambanis have company in ONGC, GAIL

Friday 31 July '09

Oil PSUs doing exactly what Ambanis have done — fixing price and apportioning gas on their own....

New FDI law: MHA for flexible security filter

Monday 27 July '09

Rather than putting entire countries under the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) watchlist in the name of national security, the Union Home Ministry is pushing...