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  Kapil Sibal Claims "Centre's Collusion" After Top Court Verdict On PM CARES

  Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Wednesday accused the Centre of collusion after the Supreme Court said a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) audit of PM CARES fund is not necessary.

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  "Finance Secretary Not Involved In Rafale": Arun Jaitley Defends Auditor

  Union minister Arun Jaitley today rubbished Congress accusations of the Comptroller and Auditor General being "complicit in the irregularities" of the Rafale deal, saying Rajeev Mehrishi was in no way associated with the decision-making process on the fighter jets.

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  How Can Top Auditor Probe His Own Role In Rafale Deal, Asks Kapil Sibal

  Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Sunday accused the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of being "complicit in the irregularities'' in the Rafale fighter jets deal and alleged "the bungling was happening at the highest level with his direct or indirect complicity and consent".

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  Vinod Rai, BJP Must Apologise To The Nation: Congress' Kapil Sibal After 2G Verdict

  Demanding apology from former Comptroller And Auditor General or CAG Vinod Rai and the BJP, Congress MP and former telecom minister Kapil Sibal said today that his stand on loss from 2G spectrum allocation stands vindicated.

• 2G row: I called the CAG, not CAG officials, says Murli Manohar Joshi

  Senior BJP leader and Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman Murli Manohar Joshi has refuted allegations made by former Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) official RP Singh, saying that he has the authority to call any official to get information. Mr Singh had accused the PAC Chairman of unethical behaviour by getting in touch with the CAG whi...

• 2G row: Sonia Gandhi says BJP 'exposed'; Murli Manohar Joshi challenges her to prove charges

  Former auditor RP Singh's claims that he never put the Rs 1.76 lakh crore loss figure in national auditor CAG's report on the 2G scam have finally given the government a chance to go on the offensive. After a meeting of the Congress core group today, Sonia Gandhi remarked that she thought the BJP has been "exposed".

• Hen that laid golden egg destroyed: Telecom Minister Sibal on flop 2G auction

  The gist of the government's response to the flop auction of second-generation or 2G airwaves: "I told you so." Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal emphasised that policy must remain the prerogative of the government and that an "environment of sensationalism" is to blame for the poor response by telecoms to the auction.

• After flop 2G auction, government challenges its auditor (CAG)

  The government may have raised just over 9,000 cores from its auction of second-generation (2G) mobile phone airwaves, but the poor sales help to make a politically expedient point - the revenue raised now is at par with what the government earned in 2008, when licenses were sold to cellphone operators in a process allegedly manipulated by corrupti...

• Coal was not sold, so nobody benefitted: Sibal

  The government on Wednesday said there was no question of anyone benefiting from coal block allocation as the mineral was never sold and accused the BJP of raking up the issue for no reason because of its desperation to come to power at the Centre before 2014.

• 2G spectrum scam: Raja, aides to be produced in court today

  A day after their arrest, former Telecom Minister A Raja and two of his close aides will be produced in the Patiala House court in New Delhi today by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The agency is planning to seek Mr Raja's custody for detailed questioning. It has also invited Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials for a joint probe. The ...

• 2G scam: War of words between MM Joshi and Kapil Sibal on CAG report

  The scrap over Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal's comments on the CAG report keeps getting more intense. Today he was rapped by both the Supreme Court, and by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), after which Mr Sibal clarified that he had meant no disrespect to the CAG."I never meant to disrespect any institution and I have the greatest respect for CAG...

• 2G spectrum scam: Sibal's criticism of CAG report 'unfortunate', says Supreme Court

  The Supreme Court today pulled up Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal for criticising the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on the 2G spectrum scam. Sibal had called the CAG report 'erroneous', saying there was no loss to the government in the 2G spectrum allocation.The report by CAG, the government's auditor, said losses from the allocation of...

• 2G scam: Sibal's remarks have hurt the CAG

  Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal's attempt to defend the government on the 2G spectrum allocation by calling the CAG report "erroneous" now faces an offensive from Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG).First, at the PAC meet on Wednesday, Opposition members attacked Sibal."The minister's rem...

• Making public statements on 2G spectrum report improper, says CAG

  Hitting out at Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal and others, the government auditor CAG today said that public statements on its report on 2G spectrum are "highly improper" as the matter is under consideration of a Parliamentary Committee.     "Making public comments on the matter which is being considered by a Parliamentary Committe...

• Sibal's remarks have hurt the prestige of PAC, says Joshi

  Hitting out at Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal, Parliament's Public Accounts Committee today said his "improper" remarks against the CAG on the 2G spectrum issue had hurt the dignity of the government auditor.    Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Chairman Murli Manohar Joshi also said that the committee members had asked him to take appro...