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Rajiv Gandhi once said that out of every rupee spent by the government on poor people only 10 paise actually reach their intended beneficiaries. In case you have not heard, the Garib Kalyan Melas that were held recently across Gujarat have changed this reality for better.

Fifty such Melas were held all across Gujarat within just 2 months. A whopping Rs. 1500 crore of funds (in the form of checks, auto and cycle repairing kits, cycles, sewing machines, cycles for the disabled, etc.) were distributed directly to 25 lakh poor people without the involvement of any middlemen.

To blame Saudi only for the resisting to acknowledge and fight climate change may be unfair – there are other oil producing countries and companies that align with Saudi .

But the sooner the Saudis and their ilk discover that when the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned and the last fish is dead, we can’t eat money, the better it will be for all of civilization

By RC

DoCoMo picked up an 26% chunk of Tata Teleservices for USD 2.7 Bn. Another multi billion dollar company created with cheap spectrum. Article in a foreign magazine Comm.Ae – Valuations in India continue to remain fluid, in particular with respect to greenfield opportunities. For example, the GSM licences that the likes of Telenor and Etisalat have participated in were offered at a fraction of the price that they were deemed to have been worth.

By RC

Its great to see Sunil Jain with more :
But there’s a far more serious problem the CBI has to deal with. Let’s assume the CBI gets all the proof it needs — where does it go after this to check how solid its legal case is? To Attorney General (AG) GE Vahanvati, India’s highest law officer. Well, when he was Solicitor General (SG), Vahanvati had opined in favour of much of what Raja’s done — how is the AG going to say …

By RC

The CBI raided some offices of the DoT seeking evidence about the 2G spectrum allocation irregularities. The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday raided top Department of Telecommunications (DoT) officials on allegations that they had colluded with private companies in issuing licences and allotting spectrum to new players on a first come, first served basis last year.

by Kanchan Gupta

Twenty-five years ago yesterday, Mrs Indira Gandhi was assassinated. She was walking towards a wicket gate in the garden of 1, Safdarjung Road, which used to be the Prime Minister’s residence, for an interview with Peter Ustinov who was shooting a documentary. As she reached the gate, two guards posted there, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, shot her with their service weapons.