at the very Core of it all … is Content!
Many years ago, I wrote a ‘story’, as we journalists describe newspaper reports, about an Indian company planning to sell solar powered inverter kits, good enough to run a TV, to Afghanistan. This was soon after the US invaded the frontier country and established a Taliban-free Hamid Karzai government. The war ravaged country was devoid …
Was P C Parekh, the coal secretary of India during 2004-2005, a party to Rs. 1,85,591.34 crore coal block allotment scam – popularly referred as “Coalgate” – unearthed by the Comptroller an Auditor General (CAG)? On Tuesday, October 15, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) accused Parekh of indulging in corruption in granting Hindalco participatory …
Chara Ghotala or Fodder Scam made it to the headlines in mid 1990’s, when I was a cub reporter. Initially the news did not make much resonance to me, except that a popular Chief Minister, Lalu Prasad Yadav, is involved in it. There was no reason either. I grew up in the days of Bofors …
Having failed miserably in its attempt to push up coal production through the much hyped captive assets allocation route, the government has now shifted focus on the State-owned coal miners. Tenders are floated at great haste either to learn new mining techniques or appoint mining contractors with a specific focus to step up investments in …