The target was for banks to sell Rs 2 trillion worth of non-performing assets to NARCL, the so-called 'bad bank, by 2021-2022. Only 10 per cent of this has been executed.
Former Intelligence Bureau chief T V Rajeswar has claimed that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh had supported Emergency and that the then Sangh chief Balasaheb Deoras had tried to establish contact with Indira Gandhi.
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In his address to the joint sitting of the state legislature, Rajeswar, while outlining the priorities of Mayawati government, said that an atomosphere of "anarchy" prevailed in UP during the last four years.
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Citing an increase in the rate of suicides in India, Uttar Pradesh Governor T V Rajeswar has suggested the victims' evidence be videographed before a magistrate and should be made admissible for prosecution.
"The BJP will study the case (action of the Governor)... permission of the Governor is not required to prosecute the chief minister."
Congress on Thursday demanded its resignation saying since the parties which had helped form the government three years ago had withdrawan their support, this government has no moral right to continue.
The CBI said it had requested the competent authority to accord sanction for prosecution of Mayawati, Siddique, and state's former environment secretary R K Sharma and another officer R Prasad.
Despite chairman Sukhram Singh Yadav's attempt to continue the proceedings, the SP members continued slogan shouting leading to adjournments for 15 minutes twice and then till 12 noon.
The Uttar Pradesh Congress on Thursday morning handed over a letter to Governor T V Rajeswar withdrawing support to the three-year-old Mulayam Singh Yadav government.
The bill, once approved, would have saved the disqualification of cinestar Jaya Bachchan and Amar Singh from the Rajya Sabha along with others.
Independent legislator Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya was Saturday re-inducted into the Uttar Pradesh Cabinet.
Mulayam will submit his resignation to the governor soon.
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The Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, Bahujan Samaj Party, Congress and RLD members were up on their feet as soon as the governor rose to read his address and began shouting anti-government slogans.
According to the petitioner, Mayawati, being a school teacher, must be asked to explain how she has acquired those assets worth Rs 41 crore within 3 years.
Uttar Pradesh Governor T V Rajeswar has accepted the resignation of Backward Classes Welfare Minister Mehboob Ali who was caught on camera in a TV sting operation, Raj Bhavan sources said Tuesday.
BSP sources said that along with Mayawati, some other ministers could also be administered oath of office and secrecy.
She also termed the trust vote won by Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav in the assembly on February 28 as "illegal and immoral." \n
The disqualification comes into effect from January 28, 2005, the day the High Court dismissed his appeal, the communique said.
"Police did not open fire at rioters despite a shoot-at-sight order in the riot-torn town and security personnel remained mute spectators to the mayhem," Tripathi said.
The father of the 16-year old girl, who has accused Asaram Bapu of sexually assauting her, called off his fast-unto-death in nearby Shahajahanpur district soon after the arrest of the godman in Indore.
Self-styled godman Asaram Bapu was on Sunday flown to Jodhpur from Indore for interrogation, hours after he was arrested amid high drama for allegedly assaulting a 16-year-old girl at his ashram.
Opponents of the CAA and NRC have gone to town accusing the BJP of an ulterior motive (read, disenfranchisement of Muslims) in implementing the NRC. By the same token it can be alleged that anti-CAA opponents have a nefarious agenda in mind that would be scuttled by the implementation of the NRC: Namely the accrual of dedicated vote banks and the restoration of Muslim hegemony over at least parts of India, especially Bengal and Assam, argues Vivek Gumaste.
"I had kept the first fruits of the Modi mango variety solely for the prime minister but I do not have a medium to send them to him."
New Delhi bureaucrats, accustomed to leisurely lunches, golf in the afternoon and long weekends, have been shaken out of their somnolence, say authors. Fear and suspicion hang heavy over the red-sands.
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It's perverse to rationalise 'controlled' killings or torture -- without going down a slippery moral slope. Once the state stoops to torture, it's liable to sink into tyranny, says Praful Bidwai.
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