CAG should restrict itself to financial impropriety: PAC chief
AGENCY
NEW DELHI: In a veiled criticism of huge notional losses projected by CAG in the 2G and other scams, PAC Chairman K V Thomas on Monday said audits should be restricted to financial impropriety and not come out with "astronomical"…
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Blackmoney: Centre discloses more names to SC
agency
New Delhi: The government on Monday disclosed before the Supreme Court eight more names including that of Pradip Burman, one of Dabur India promoters, a bullion trader and Goa miners against whom it has started prosecution for…
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Baig likely to return to state politics
STATE TIMES NEWS
SRINAGAR: Senior Peoples Democratic Party (PDP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig is likely to return to state politics as the party is likely to field him from his home constituency Baramulla in…
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Battle lines drawn
With regional bias coming to the fore once again, it seems battle lines have been drawn for the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections. The first salvo was fired by none else than PHE Minister Sham Lal Sharma, who is from Congress, by…
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Kashmir obsession
Pakistan's Kashmir obsession has not come down and neither will it be going to diminish if the recent utterances of Adviser to the Pakistan Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz are to be taken into account. He…
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Nobel for whom: Getter or giver?
Swapan Dasgupta
The Nobel Peace Prize, awarded by a committee of Norwegian politicians, is no exception. Like the now-extinct Lenin Peace Prize or even our own Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace and what-not, its choice is out-and-out political…
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Prez, PM ask people to use technology to fight corruption
Agency
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday called for making optimum use of modern technology in tackling corruption.
In his message on the beginning of 'Vigilance week' starting today, the…
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Cross border Pak aggression: Genesis and fall out-1
M. M Khajooria
The 2003 Indo-Pak Cease-fire Agreement which facilitated the erection of border fencing along the IB and LoC in Jammu and Kashmir was easily the most significant Confidence Building Measure between the two neighbours in…
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Bus mishap; Six Baratis from Jammu killed
STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU/AMRITSAR: Six Baratis from Jammu, including a child and two women, all members of a marriage party, died while at least 16 others were injured when the bus they were travelling in lost control and overturned in a…
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