IMAGE: BCCI president Anurag Thakur, right, with ICC CEO Shashank Manohar. Photograph: PTI Board of Control for Cricket in India president Anurag Thakur on Monday said in Supreme Court that he had not asked International Cricket Council's CEO Dave Richardson to state that the appointment of Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha committee would "tantamount to government interference" in the functioning of BCCI.
Modi said the House did not witness any earthquake, an apparent reference to claims of Rahul Gandhi that his revelation on Rafale would create tremors.
Rewarding those who had supported them and refused to pay their power bills during AAP's agitation, the Delhi government on Wednesday decided to give them a 50 per cent relief on their pending bills and also waived the penalty.
Having cut off the "umbilical cord" that tied him to the Board, the former Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) spoke to PTI on a range of issues from "giving a free hand" to the Virat Kohli-Ravi Shastri duo, Anil Kumble's exit as national coach, his frosty relationship with colleague Diana Edulji, sexual harassment allegations against BCCI CEO Rahul Johri and difficulties in implementing the Supreme Court-mandated Lodha recommendations.
Saurabh Patel, energy minister, Gujarat, who has handled the energy portfolio since 2002, speaks to Archis Mohan on GPSC's investment in the KG basin and says the criticism is politically motivated.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday promised to take steps to address "some of the discomforting aspects" relating to the divestment of the Centaur Hotel in Mumbai
RIL, Videocon A/c mistakes cause over Rs 500 cr tax loss: CAG.
Faulty laws helped oil majors IOC, HPCL and BPCL -- to avoid excise payment of Rs 713 crore (Rs 7.13 billion) to the government during April-December 2002, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India has said.
The resistance to Lodha panel reforms remains deep rooted in the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
The cacophony of uninformed voices should not impact decision making process of bank executives.
The Shunglu committee, which went into the financial needs of the Indian Institutes of Management, is understood to have backed the drastic fee reduction mooted by Human Resources Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi.
CAG said that Reliance Infocomm and Tata Tele Services Ltd have caused a loss of Rs 184 crore to 3 state-run insurance firms between 2002-05 on risk cover for mobile handsets and default payments.
Food to be cooked in base kitchens instead of trains; private players to be involved
The electricity board lost Rs 1,111.35 crore owing to irregularities.
Indian-American Raja Krishnamoorthi has registered a big win in the Democratic Congressional primary in the US state of Illinois by defeating the state senator.
The examination was scheduled to start at 1400 IST at 50 centres all over the country.
Lack of sanitation is leading to avoidable deaths of infants, and underweight and stunted children.
Comptroller and Auditor General of India V N Kaul said on Monday that there was a need to review government accounting system for bringing in transparency
An RTI plea reveals that Rashtrapati Bhavan employs 545 people, and incurs a monthly wage bill of Rs 1,34,68,927.
Indian Railways to bring on board ready-to-eat food companies
The court is hearing a PIL which charges that the country suffered a loss of Rs 2,000 crore because norms and procedures were not followed in procurement of arms and ammunitions.
The defence minister said it could not be given to the Public Accounts Committee.
The AG said the country needs the Rafale jet to defend itself 'from F-16 fighter planes that recently bombed us'.
Centre objected to the review petition and said that the basic grounds for seeking review of the verdict are the same as they were in the main petition.
Raja said he had, in fact, brought a 'revolution' in the telecom sector.
The CAG report, tabled in Parliament, states the interest on the short payment stood at Rs 1,052.13 crore for the period up to March 2016.
The government had also appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers as consultant to come up with a road map to upgrade base kitchens and service on trains.
The Comptroller and Auditor General has pulled up leading public sector undertakings for glaring lapses in balance sheets, saying assets were overstated by Rs 377.43 crore (Rs 3.77 billion) in four Navratna companies including SAIL.
Krishnamoorthi, 43, won the Chicago-area US House of Representatives seat, the 8th Congressional District, vacated by Tammy Duckworth who won Illinois's US Senate seat.
Under attack over his remarks that official auditor should not "sensationalise" its audit findings, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said media did not accurately reflect the spirit of his speech at the CAG conference.
The government had last year excluded those with an annual income of more than Rs 10 lakh from LPG subsidy
The Comptroller and Auditor General said on Thursday that inventory assets of public sector undertakings had become a "vulnerable" area for divestment as these were not complete and not verified systematically.\n\n\n\n
'No sovereign guarantee, no bank guarantee, no escrow account, yet a huge amount was paid as advance'
