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Vinod Rai, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India till May and probably the most talked-about government official in the last few years, participated in a Live Chat with readers of Rediff.com on Friday. During the chat, the man who unearthed scams like coal-gate and the 2G spectrum case, answered a range of queries. Here is the transcript of the chat: Ashish Rajput: Hello Sir, I hold great respect for you for the work done by you during your stint as CAG of India. You have revamped the ...

Manish Tewari may be firing salvos at Vinod Rai but it would do him good to read the CAG report on coal block allocation carefully. But will he do it since he's busy defending the Congress and the PM?

New Delhi, May 31 (PTI) Former CAG Vinod Rai, who faced intense attack from government over 2G spectrum report which pegged the presumptive loss at Rs 1.76 lakh crore, has said the audit had been conducted as per the global norms and insisted he ...

To be fair to Rai, his 2G spectrum report made several calculations of presumptive loss, but it was the highest number that the media went to town over, thus making it appear as though this was the final authoritative figure. It wasn't. Prices and ...

NEW DELHI: Telecom and Law Minister Kapil Sibal has slammed the national auditor for alleging that mobile phone companies had formed a cartel and destroyed the recently concluded auctions, and said the ( CAG) could not take a position on the sale of ...

Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai has said that Constitution has adequately empowered the public auditor to exercise its functions and ensure unfettered audits.In an exclusive interview to All India radio News, Rai said, the government or other ...

Former Comptroller and Auditor General of India Vinod Rai spoke to CNN-IBN's Karan Thapar, in his first TV interview two, on two reports that attracted great public interest - 2G and Coalgate report. Karan Thapar:Hello and welcome to Devil's Advocate and the ...

CAG is disallowed by the Constitution from holding an official position post-retirement, so Rai is contemplating a happy retirement of speaking engagements and some private financial work. Perhaps he should run classes for bureaucrats looking for a spine on ...

NEW DELHI: Defending the decision to calculate presumptive loss in the 2G spectrum case former CAG Vinod Rai has said that no fault had been found in the auditing framework in a peer review conducted by the Auditor General of