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One UPA Minister seeks new toilet behind office seat, another walnut wood flooring

Thursday 17 September '09

MoS Panabaka Lakshmi’s Vaastu-friendly toilet request is turned down by CPWD.....
Age of Austerity: UPA Ministers want Spanish tiles, Italian porcelains

Wednesday 16 September '09

Shatabdi chair car and airline economy seats may be the new symbols of UPA 'austerity' but its ministers want nothing but the finest — and expensive — fittings in their new office.
Age of Austerity: UPA Ministers want Spanish tiles in office rooms, Italian porcelain in their toilets

Wednesday 16 September '09

Shatabdi chair car and airline economy seats may be the new symbols of UPA “austerity” but its Cabinet ministers want...
We now have to retrieve the Games, says Kalmadi’s Number 2

Tuesday 15 September '09

While Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president Suresh Kalmadi went into damage-control mode a day after the president of the Commonwealth Games...
Arushi’s DNA was found on vaginal swab but got contaminated: CBI

Friday 11 September '09

The vaginal swab of Arushi Talwar has been lost forever but it was “contaminated, not switched” since the 14-year-old girl’s DNA was first detected....
It took time to identify homes, renovation work in progress: CPWD

Wednesday 9 September '09

A day after The Indian Express reported that External Affairs Minister S M Krishna and his deputy Shashi Tharoor had made...
Banned by MoD, Singapore firm is cleared to bid for Bangalore Metro

Sunday 6 September '09

Barely two months ago, Singapore Technologies was one of seven firms banned by the Ministry of Defence after the CBI alleged it had a role....
Shopian: CBI sought assurance before HC cleared probe transfer

Thursday 3 September '09

The delay in handing over the Shopian rape and murder case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) may well be on...
Their identities disclosed, facing probes and cases, whistleblowers do rounds of courts

Monday 31 August '09

Chargesheets, censures, departmental inquiries, suspensions. That wasn’t what these government employees — some very senior, others relatively junior....
Govt didn’t allow fee payment saying F1 business, not sport

Tuesday 25 August '09

JPSK Sports, the company slated to bring Formula One to India and which has IOA Chief Suresh Kalmadi’s family members on board....
For Kalmadi, F1 is Family 1st

Saturday 22 August '09

Two years ago, Suresh Kalmadi, president of the IOA, proudly said that he had sealed an agreement to bring the Formula One to India.
Graft case claimed Ordnance chief, his No. 2 under cloud too

Tuesday 18 August '09

If chairman of the Ordnance Factory Board Sudipta Ghosh was arrested in what the CBI calls one of its biggest corruption scandals ever, his potential successor is also under a cloud.
No need for a prosecution directorate: ED

Wednesday 12 August '09

The government appears to be getting beaten back on yet another significant proposal — that of urgently creating an “independent” Directorate of Prosecution...
Buta family fighting charges dating back 13 years

Wednesday 5 August '09

THE current CBI action against Buta Singh’s son, Sarabjot Singh, comes when the family is embroiled in cases booked by the Income Tax Department...
Investigating agencies, paramilitary forces to lose cover from RTI

Sunday 2 August '09

The Ministry of Personnel and Training (DoPT) last week initiated moves to bring investigating agencies, paramilitary forces and police departments...
Pak wants ‘pink foam’ from terror trawler

Thursday 30 July '09

A sample of the “pink foam” found on board M V Kuber, the trawler that the Pak terrorists used to reach India...
From Israel, lessons on fighting terror

Tuesday 21 July '09

While there’s a lot that went wrong in India’s response to the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai, a study in sharp contrast is Israel.
No 26/11 repeat: Maharashtra shops for Israeli solutions

Monday 13 July '09

The Mumbai attacks claimed the lives of several Israelis and brought India and Israel closer in the fight against terrorism — and a high-level team from Maharashtra...
Babus give themselves 10/10, so Govt to change IAS review system

Thursday 18 June '09

Excellent annual appraisal ratings have become a pattern befuddling not only human resource management in the private sector but now, in the Government as well.
Phone taps lead CBI to banks and cheques in Ordnance scam

Sunday 14 June '09

Rs 50 lakh in Ghosh’s Singapore account, Rs 40 lakh from his brother-in-law, a Rs 5-cr cheque to firm run by father-in-law of accused Nambiar: agency tracks paper trail....
His new brief

Sunday 14 June '09

With the government talking about ushering in judicial reforms, Goolam E. Vahanvati, India’s new Attorney General, could be just the man for the job. THE SUNDAY EXPRESS profiles India’s senior-most law officer
Arrested for ‘biggest fraud’, Ordnance chief got MoD clean chit two years ago

Sunday 7 June '09

Union Defence Minister A K Antony this week rushed in to blacklist seven Indian and foreign firms whose names cropped up in the bribery....
Ban comes before probe, CBI still working on phone tap transcripts

Saturday 6 June '09

While the Ministry of Defence has moved in quickly and blacklisted the firms allegedly involved in the OFB scam....
Govt gets its blueprint for revamp of intelligence

Tuesday 2 June '09

Creation of national database, centres to tone up intelligence sharing and gathering, a counter-intelligence centre are among many recommendations that will shortly get a look-in by Cabinet Committee on Security.
Moily reverses Bhardwaj: will push impeachment of Calcutta HC judge

Saturday 30 May '09

Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily said that he would expedite impeachment of Justice Soumitra Sen of the Calcutta High Court.
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