The Pioneer, November 16, 2010 Chandan Mitra For a long time, I did not even know that J Gopikrishnan was a stringer based in Thiruvananthapuram working for The Pioneer’s now-aborted Kochi edition. So when he came to Delhi pleading for a job at the headquarters once the Kochi edition shut in 2007, I was rather…
5 dodgy firms received Rs 26,000-cr bank loan The Pioneer November 29, 2010 The loans provided by public sector banks to 2G scam-tainted companies are not limited to Unitech and STel. Investigations carried out by The Pioneer show that many more companies were liberally funded by these banks even when the Central Bureau of Investigation…
NAFED’s crores used on Husains, beauty pageants The Pioneer – August 9, 2010 The Centre is sitting over a shocking inquiry report, submitted 20 months ago, on the blatant corruption in the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd (NAFED). The inquiry committee headed by Justice RR Misra has exposed allotment of more than…
TAPPED and TRAPPED (Published in Pioneer on April 28, 2010) Govt taps PR honcho’s phone, gets clinching evidence against Raja The cat is finally out of the bag. The CBI has acquired clinching evidence showing that a high-profile woman public relations lobbyist acted as powerbroker in the mutli-crore 2G spectrum scam and that she was…
(Published in Pioneer on Feb 1, 2010) In shortlisting WiMax franchisees, the BSNL has violated its own guidelines which make it mandatory for the eligible bidder to have Rs 100-crore turnover per year for two consecutive years. Neither the shortlisted company, Ampoules & Auto Pvt Ltd, nor its re-born entity Starnet communication Pvt Ltd meets…