J Gopikrishnan / June 16, 2013 Nearly 500 Indians and Indian companies have bank accounts in tax havens like British Virgin, Cayman and Cook Islands and Singapore. They are among the 10,000 account holders worldwide whose comprehensive list was released by the US-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) on Saturday. Interestingly, the official residential…
“The Pioneer – November 26, 2013 | J Gopikrishnan | New Delhi Even as the nation observes the fifth anniversary of the 26/11 terror attack on Tuesday, a paralysed NSG Commando is fighting a legal battle against the Indian Army for justice. Havildar PV Manesh who got the Shaurya Chakra has been transferred from his…
FIRST THE SCAM, THEN THE SHAM J Gopikrishnan – October 17, 2013 – The Pioneer OpEd As expected, the Congress-dominated Joint Parliamentary Committee has given a report on the 2G Spectrum scam that clears Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Minister for Finance P Chidambaram, and puts all the blame on former Minister of Communication…
J Gopikrishnan | New Delhi July 01, 2013 While the Indian and Italian probe agencies are still uncertain about his whereabouts, the fugitive Christian Michel, a major beneficiary of the AgustaWestland chopper scam, has put out an advertisement for sale of his plush home in London . According to the advertisement, Michel wants 4,75,000 British…
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…