Rajendra Darda

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  "Time To Introspect": Congress Leader As Urmila Matondkar Joins Shiv Sena

  Former Maharashtra minister and Congress leader Rajendra Darda has said actress Urmila Matondkar's move to switch over to the Shiv Sena is a loss for the Congress, and it is high time that his party does an introspection.

• Sachin Tendulkar Now a Part of Maharashtra Textbooks

  The Maharashtra government has added a chapter on Sachin Tendulkar in the school syllabus so that children are inspired by the iconic cricketer.

• Coal-gate: CBI questions key accused Arvind Jayaswal

  The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is investigating the giant coal scam, today questioned entrepreneur Arvind Jayaswal, Director AMR Iron and Steel Private Limited, whose company is co-promoted by Congress MP Vijay Darda and his brother, Rajendra, currently the education minister of Maharashtra.

• Controversial Jayaswal was recommended for coal block by BJP's Munda

  As part of its investigation on the coal scam, the CBI has filed a case of conspiracy and cheating against an entrepreneur named Manoj Jayaswal, a well-connected businessman from Nagpur. Two of his firms that were given coal blocks were partly-owned Congress politicians Vijay and Rajendra Darda, who have also been named in the CBI's chargesheets, b...

• Exclusive: Coal scandal - Did Dardas make 100 crores from a single coal block?

  Until now, the CBI's investigation into the coal scandal has focused on charges that companies with inadequate expertise and finances managed to land captive coal blocks with millions of tonnes of deposits.

• Coal-gate: Raided coal firms had been tipped off, claims Arvind Kejriwal; incorrect, says CBI

  Anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal has alleged that companies who were raided earlier this week for landing coal fields by misreporting facts were secretly warned that CBI investigators would soon be arriving at the homes and offices of executives. Irregularities in the allocation process are an important charge in the coal scandal that has ...

• Coal scam: Haven't been asked to quit, says Maharashtra minister Rajendra Darda

  A day after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) booked Congress MP Vijay Darda and his brother Rajendra, who is Maharashtra's Education Minister, in the coal block allocation scam, NDTV has learnt that the minister may be asked to quit. Top Congress sources have told NDTV that the party's leadership was unhappy that the Dardas hid facts.

• Coal scam: Congress MP Vijay Darda denies wrongdoing, says he didn't lobby for coal blocks

  Congress MP Vijay Darda has denied that he used his position to influence the coal allocation process followed by the government. Mr Darda and his brother Rajendra, who is a minister in the Maharashtra government, have been named in cases registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against five companies and their directors for delibera...

• Coal scandal: CBI case against Congress MP and minister brother

  A Congress MP, Vijay Darda, and his brother, Rajendra, who is a minister in the Maharashtra government have been named in cases registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today against five companies and their directors for deliberately misreporting financial and technical abilities in order to corner coal fields.

• HSC results: Girls fare better than boys in Maharashtra

  School Education Minister Rajendra Darda told reporters that 79.60 per cent girls and 70.32 per cent boys passed the examination.

• Coming Soon: the '3 idiots' formula for SSC schools

  It was a scene straight out of the Bollywood movie 3 Idiots. And the protagonist this time was state Education Minister Rajendra Darda. In the city to meet officials from the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) entrusted with the task of revising the curriculum for SSC schools, Darda insisted that practical...