The CBI had appealed against quashing of a charge sheet against three Hinduja brothers.
The opposition has been demanding that all the documents relating to the Kargil purchases be tabled in the House and a full discussion be allowed on the issue.
'Work will now be basically file movements from one desk to another as both the government and the agency would not like to antagonise the court.'
Over 400 faculty members and alumni went on a day's token hunger-strike at the IIT's Kharagpur campus on July 17 to press for their demand.
Arvind Kejriwal ji, let me give you an uncalled-for friendly advice. Governance is serious business, please keep it in mind."
The government on Friday gave wide-ranging legislative powers to the Reserve Bank of India to issue directions to lenders to initiate insolvency proceedings for the recovery of bad loans.
On a day Ashok Lavasa's decision to recuse from model code of conduct complaints became public, the EC said the 'full commission' would meet on May 21 to discuss the issue of dissent and 'related matters'.
Upping the ante on the Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition issue, Congress and its allies on Monday said they will write to Speaker Sumitra Mahajan seeking an immediate decision in the matter.
Green signal from Jaitley; CVC okays Hemant Contractor for head of PFRDA
Subramanian was the Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Global Development in the US before joining the ministry.
Bankers said the mammoth task of cleaning up the PSBs and improving their health will be a mammoth task for any chief executive.
Struggling smaller F1 teams like Sauber and Force India have long argued that the distribution is skewed in favour of leading manufacturers, who receive special payments regardless of how they perform on the track.
Central Administrative Tribunal says orders unjustified and against principles of natural justice. Nitin Sethi reports
CEA offers three compelling arguments in his case for privatisation of government-owned banks.
The investigative agency wanted four weeks, arguing some more investigation has to be carried out in the case.
A bill to provide for setting up a regular mechanism to encourage persons to disclose information on corruption or wilful misuse of power by public servants, including ministers, was passed by Parliament on Friday.
'At no point did Shri Rijiju recommend that payment be released but only requested that 'kindly get this petition considered in your ministry sympathetically on priority',' it said making public the copy of the letter.
RBI has identified about 50 cases for NPA resolution after it was empowered by the government to ask banks to initiate insolvency proceedings.
Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has taken legal action against British tax officials after facing a demand for payment of more than 1 billion pounds ($1.57 billion) in relation to a family trust.
'Public sector banks are like an extended arm of the government.' 'They rush to rescue certain sectors or they rush to invest in certain sectors to prop up the economy which the private banks don't.'
Decades apart, but the drama linked to the two appears similar, says Nivedita Mookerji.
Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan feels the House can change the rules regarding recognising the Leader of Opposition in the absence of any party getting the minimum ten per cent of the total strength for the purpose.
Advice to the new finance minister from former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan: 1. Clean up banks by reviving projects that can be revived after restructuring debt. 2. Improve governance and management at public sector banks. 3. De-risk banking by encouraging risk transfers to non-banks and the market. 4. Reduce the number and weight of government mandates for public sector banks, and for banks more generally.
The priority of Central Information Commission will be to check vexatious petitions and mounting backlog of cases, its new chief Vijai Sharma said in New Delhi on Wednesday.
The alleged meetings of former Director of CBI Ranjit Kumar Sinha with the accused in coalgate and 2G cases were'inappropriate', said SC.
More Formula One teams could follow Caterham and Marussia into administration or failure, the former head of the sport's governing body Max Mosley warned on Monday.
A Parliamentary panel examining the Lokpal bill may recommend that the proposed anti-corruption watchdog be a single window stop for probing all corruption complaints against government functionaries by ending multiplicity of investigating agencies to investigate graft cases.
Besides PESB selected chairman designate B Ashok (currently Executive Director retail sales in IOC) having no board experience, the case for extending Butola's service is more compelling because all the other six directors on board of the nation's largest oil firm are retiring in next one year.
Senior IPS officer Archana Ramasundaram on Thursday took over as the Central Bureau of Investigation's first woman Additional Director but was suspended by Tamil Nadu government late in the night for allegedly not following rules before joining the central probe agency.
Force India co-owner Vijay Mallya has rejected speculation about his Formula One team's finances, saying they will be racing for years to come.
The agency has so far seized diamonds, gold jewellery and other precious stones worth Rs 5,716 crore in the case and summoned Modi and Choksi, the promoter of Gitanjali Gems, to appear before it on February 23 at its Mubai zonal office.
"Political will can reform but bureaucracy performs and public participation transforms. We have to bring them on one wavelength," Prime Minister Narendra Modi told bureaucrats on civil services day.
'The autonomy of essential institutions is clearly under question as the Modi government seeks to influence them politically.' 'The credibility of institutions such as the EC, the CBI, the CVC, the UPSC, the RBI, media, and universities, has been compromised,' notes Zoya Hasan, the distinguished political thinker.
Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has dismissed talk of a new chairman trying to 'rein him in' and says he plans to continue running the company as if he owned it.
Raising concern about over-dependence of Indian capital markets on foreign institutional investors, eminent banker Deepak Parekh has said that something needs to be done to change this pattern.
Over 40,000 complaints and appeals are pending in the Central Information Commission which is working without its chief for more than nine months.
Bankers said fear of loan losses impairing their careers could make officers wary of sanctioning new loan proposals on their own.
Anil Kumar Sinha, a 1979-batch Indian Police Service officer, on Wednesday took over the reins of the Central Bureau of Investigation at a time when the agency is facing criticism from courts over its handling of probe in coal allocation and 2G scams.
One of the urgent tasks ahead for the new government should be to improve public trust in the executive.
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