GOVT WANTS TO HIKE GAS PRICE, HELP RIL; MINISTRIES RESIST J Gopikrishnan / New Delhi May 30, 2013 As the countdown has started for the end of the UPA Government, a move is underway to sharply increase the price of the indigenously produced natural gas. A Cabinet note shows that a section of the Government…
J Gopikrishnan / New Delhi March 18, 2013 Union Petroleum Minister M Veerappa Moily could be in the dock for raising funds for his family controlled trust from a corporate giant when he was Corporate Affairs Minister. Moily faces another serious case of conflict of interest as a top official of Reliance Industries is advisor…
J Gopikrishnan / New Delhi Feb 15, 2013 Like the Bofors scam, the AgustaWestland chopper deal too has telltale signs of a Congress connection. According to the Italian newspaper ‘Lettera 43’, main commission agent Christian Michel’s late father was “close to the Congress party”, and the other middleman, Guido Ralph Haschke, was a Director of…
J Gopikrishnan [The Pioneer Op Ed article Dec 12, 2012] On December 3, Comptroller and Auditor-General Vinod Rai and his colleagues must have had a hearty laugh watching television channels flashing news of Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Manish Tewari’s live Press conference at the All India Congress Committee’s office. Mr Tewari, a frequent…
[The series published in “The Pioneer” from Sept 7, 10 & 11 – 2012 on land grabbing by Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram’s family and his blatant lies exposing discrepancies in several mandatory affidavits to Election Commission in 2004 & 2009 and to PM] Sept 7, 2012 Chidambaram hid wife’s land record J Gopikrishnan The…
[These series of articles on Chidambaram’s link in Aircel-Maxis deal appeared in ‘The Pioneer’ on April-May 2012] Swamy claims PC used clout to benefit son April 27, 2012 Janata Party president and 2G scam crusader Subramanian Swamy has alleged that Home Minister P Chidambaram used his office as Finance Minister in 2006 to help his…
[This Op-Ed article published in ‘The Pioneer’ on June 2, 2012] Being born and having lived in Kerala for 37 years, I often feel like laughing when home is described as “God’s own country”. This is how advertisement catch words infiltrate, invade and come to possess our minds. This decorative catch word was first used…
[These articles appeared on ‘The Pioneer on April 6 & 11, 2012] Tatra- tainted Rishi has lion’s share in Govt’s expo hub April 11, 2012 Controversial arms dealer Ravinder Kumar Rishi’s Vectra Investments is a major stakeholder in Central Government’s mega handicrafts hub and export venture, India Expo Centre and Mart. This project spread over…
[These two articles appeared on ‘The Pioneer’ on March 19 & 21, 2012] US loco giant pits Montek against planners March 19, 2012 In the midst of political turmoil over the railway fare hike, an intense fight is going on in higher echelons of bureaucracy over the selection of bidders for two locomotive factories that…
[This report published in ‘The Pioneer’ on December 7, 2011. Everybody talk on blackmoney stashed in foreign banks. But no action from India, even while foreign governments and courts fix such Indian illegal account holders] Indian investigating and enforcement agencies have not cracked down on a politically connected middleman even after the US counterparts provided…