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SC gives govt free hand to allocate natural resources UPA
allies warn govt on economic reform fallout
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Policy lacuna fetched Punjab BJP ex-minister 31 kanals Vigilance
probe holds Patiala ex-DC guilty
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Valley, Pranab exhorts youth to usher in a new dawn Fake
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Centre, a five-judge Bench of the Supreme Court today virtually gave it a free hand in the allocation of natural resources, clarifying that the judgment mandating auction was restricted to the 122 telecom licences the SC had cancelled in February this year.
Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram today put up
a strong defence of the government’s recent reform measures to UPA
allies, who expressed their concern over the Centre’s move to hike
diesel prices, cap subsidised LPG cylinders and allow FDI into
multi-brand retail.
Bharatiya Janata Party’s former minister Swarna Ram showed himself to be in unauthorised occupation of government land in order to get it allotted to himself for “peanuts”. The strategy came to the fore today, with the Punjab and Haryana High Court passing strictures against Swarna Ram and setting aside the land allotment in his favour.
Holding
Patiala former Deputy Commissioner Vikas Garg guilty of causing a loss
of crores of rupees to the state exchequer for being instrumental in the
sale of prime government property in the heart of Patiala, the Economic
Offences Wing of Punjab Vigilance Bureau has recommended registration of
a case against him under Sections pertaining to fraud and the Prevention
of Corruption Act.
The
Supreme Court today shifted to Mumbai the trial of former Gujarat Home
Minister Amit Shah in a case relating to the killing of Sohrabuddin
Sheikh in a fake encounter near Gandhinagar in November 2005.
Bureaucratic wrangling on Thursday forced Indian social
activists to cancel their visit to Lahore to take part in the
105th birth anniversary celebrations of legendary revolutionary
Bhagat Singh. Bhagat Singh was born at Jaranwala village in
Pakistan’s Lyallpur (now Faislabad) on September 28, 1907.