The Supreme Court appointed Central Empow-ered Committee has recommended a court-monitored investigation by the CBI into illegal mining in Bellary.

The CBI on Thursday finally concluded its two-and-half-days’ laborious arguments opposing any order from the Supreme Court for investigating the alleged role of P. Chidamabaram in fixing spectrum prices at lower level as finance minister in UPA-I, along with then telecommunications minister A. Raja.

BJP spokesman Rajiv Pratap Rudy here on Thursday alleged that Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi had overlooked the state’s interests while agreeing on the land swap deal with Bangladesh.

In the wake of recent controversy involving P. Chidambaram, the CBI on Thursday maintained that the agency has completed its probe from all possible angles and did not find union home minister’s complicity in the 2G spectrum scam case.

Governor H.R. Bhardwaj made it clear on Wednesday that the government could not reject former Lokayukta Justice Santosh Hegde’s report on illegal mining merely on advocate general (AG) B.V. Acharya’s advice.

Amidst the raging controversy over finance ministry’s note to the PMO on alleged role of P. Chidambaram in fixing the 2G spectrum price along with former telecommunications minister A. Raja, the Centre on Thursday opposed any order from the Supreme Court for CBI probe against him and further monitoring of the case by it.

The inquiry report — into the crash of a Pawan Hans helicopter in Arunachal Pradesh in May 2011 that killed the then Arunachal chief minister Dorjee Khandu and all others on board including the two pilots — has concluded that the probable cause of the crash was “inadvertent controlled flight into terrain in

The myth that environmental regulations were throttling the country’s growth was busted by the Centre for Science & Environment (CSE) which has found that an unprecedented number of environment and forest clearances have been granted to five key industry sectors during the 11th Five Year Plan.

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi here on Thursday reprimanded local media for advising him to take a lesson from Gujarat and Bihar chief ministers to bring in development to the state. Mr Gogoi told reporters, “Why should I look towards Modi and Nitish Kumar. My state has progressed better than Gujarat and Bihar.”

In a bid to boost coal production, several private companies have been granted coal mines by the ministry of coal but many of these have yet to start production.
CSE experts lists out how several companies were granted coal blocks in Rampia in 2008, but till December 2010 they had not developed them. In July