Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley has said that the allocation of blocks to private operators for commercial exploitation clearly falls in the category of arbitrary adoption of means, other than those that are competitive to maximise revenue, as enunciated in the verdict of the Supreme Court. According to him, the apex court's verdict provides one more reason to cancel all coal block allocations.
Why is the Bharatiya Janata Party opposed to FDI in retail? A day after promising to scrap FDI in retail, the BJP set about fine-tuning its line to ensure it did not fall foul of the middle-class.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday came out with a book on the coal scam titled 'The Great Coal Robbery'.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was the cynosure of attention at the closed-door BJP national executive at Surajkund. Intervening in a discussion on foreign direct investment in retail, Modi asked other Bharatiya Janata Party leaders to go full hog on the issue by holding not less than 5,000 public meetings -- at least 10 in each Lok Sabha constituency -- to win over traders and farmers against foreign retailers to expose the Congress' hype on reforms to deflect attentio
The Election Commission is likely to declare poll dates for Gujarat and Himachal on October 4 or 5.
Dr Viswapati Trivedi, secretary, Union Ministry of Mines, has been abruptly shunted out without prior intimation.
Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav's visit to Rashtrapathi Bhavan to attend musician Subha Mudgal's musical concert with President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday has created a flutter in Delhi political circles.
Sources in the Congress have begun to brief business houses and mediapersons with 'adequate numbers' to prove that the United Progressive Alliance government is in majority, despite Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress pulling out its 19 members of Parliament from the government.
After Governor of Andhra Pradesh ESL Narasimhan emerged from a 45-minute meeting with Congress president Sonia Gandhi, a source indicated that they both had held key discussions on the current political situation in the state.
When asked about his interaction with the Congress president on Friday, Narayan Rane merely quipped that it was "a fruitful meeting"
Bharatiya Janata Party President Nitin Gadkari on Friday served a criminal defamation notice on Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh for implicating him in the allocation of a coal block to BJP Rajya Sabha member Ajay Sancheti by the BJP-ruled Chhattisgarh government.
BJP President Nitin Gadkari will open the conference with a lecture on the "technology-based governance," followed by a 4-hour long plenary session on "IT for corruption free and citizen friendly governance.
It is the Bharatiya Janata Party's turn to face the heat in the 2G spectrum scam case. Some of the associates of late Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan are under the scanner of the Income Tax Department and other security agencies. It is learnt that a very close associate of Mahajan had been summoned for questioning by the government agencies some time ago.
The government-run Bharat Earth Movers Limited continues to do business with the United Kingdom-based Tatra Sipox, in spite of the latter facing a criminal case filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation. The PSU sought a fresh lot of Tatra trucks, priced at Rs 59.6 lakh each, in July -- two months after the CBI filed its case against the company.
In Kudankulam, while addressing the media, India Against Corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal displayed an illustration, which shows the national emblem with Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, Finance Minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti instead of the Sarnath lions.
Bhartiya Janata Party patriarch Lal Krishna Advani took a dig at the prime minister's 48-year old communication advisor Pankaj Pachauri in his latest blog for his "stupidity" of trying to fix a Washington Post journalist who wrote Dr Manmohan Singh as "a tragic figure and a dithering, ineffectual bureaucrat presiding over a deeply corrupt government."
The Congress is showing a combative mood in defence of the party-led United Progressive Alliance's policy on coal allocation.
The Supreme Court on Monday pulled up the Prime Minister's Office for the way it was dealing with the Cauvery water dispute between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. The Centre's lawyer told the court that he needed time to file a proper reply on this issue and the date for convening the Cauvery River Authority, headed by the prime minister, has not been fixed.
On instructions from Congress president Sonia Gandhi, senior Union ministers were asked to brief Congress MPs on the allocation of coal blocks and the CAG report.
India Against Corruption member Arvind Kejriwal said that along with the BJP and Congress, the Communist Party of India-Marxist and Biju Janata Dal also played a major role in the plunder of the natural resource.
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