Legal tangles in investigation

'We seem to be reliving the sleaziest days of the 1980s,' says T V R Shenoy. 'Defence purchases are made under controversial circumstances, and nobody is held accountable.' 'Shoddy staffwork leads to suspects leaving India, and it is virtually impossible to lay hands on them again once they are out.' 'The same shabby acts of commission and omission. The same stale excuses...' Does anything link the ongoing scandal over the purchase of the AgustaWestland AW 101s and the escape of Massimiliano ...

This mess is not limited to Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan, but has spread to include other, more famous and better connected names, both cricketers and non-cricketers. If so, we may never unearth all the facts. But in all seriousness we have to ask if match-fixing in cricket truly deserves this level of attention, asks T V R Shenoy. August-September is traditionally the 'Silly Season' for the English media. With parliament and the courts fleeing from London's wretched summers there ...

The Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy has announced the names of the achievers, who will be honoured with the prestigious 'Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy Awards 2012.' Briefing media persons here on Saturday, Academy Chairman Kasargod Chinna said that the ...

Did the principal secretary to the prime minister authorise the controversial meeting a joint secretary at the PMO had at the CBI headquarters to discuss the coal scam report, asks T V R Shenoy. 'The heart of the report was changed on the suggestion of government officials,' the Supreme Court observed on May 8, 2013, referring to the CBI report on the Coal Allotment Scam. Three questions arise. Who was the surgeon? In which hospital was the heart transplanted? And when was the operation carried ...

'If the BJP government in Karnataka's activities fostered dissidence, the Gadkari era saw the same sin crop up elsewhere, notably in Uttarakhand.' 'Gadkari's leadership saw the BJP drift away from its moral moorings,' argues T V R Shenoy. 2013 is my 48th straight year as a journalist in Delhi. But right now my memory is rolling back the decades, back to when I had been working in the capital for 'just' ten years, specifically to June 12, 1975.May 8, 2013 started with the results of the ...

'On April 30, the Supreme Court spoke on the need to further insulate the CBI from political interference.' 'Come May 8, perhaps their Lordships could also extend protection to the law officers too -- simultaneously sending out the message that the Attorney General is much more than a professional doing his duty to the ministry of the day, that he owes a higher duty as an officer of the court,' says T V R Shenoy. The Bar Council of India's Web site lays out the professional standards expected ...

Mamata Banerjee has announced a Rs 500 crore relief package to assuage those who lost their money to the Saradha chit fund. As West Bengal is dancing on the edge of bankruptcy, this money will be raised from taxes on tobacco. Having already seen their savings go up in smoke the people of West Bengal must now puff away whatever is left, says T V R Shenoy. Was Nalini Chidambaram, wife of Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram, paid one crore rupees (Rs 10 million) in a Rs 42 crore (Rs 4210 million) ...

NRI News: Almost all the returnees had been engaged in sales and other labour jobs such as cleaning. The number of returnees from other districts was 306 from Kozhikode, 115 from Kannur, 36 from Wayanad, 74 from Palakkad, 13 from Kasaragod, four ...

Top seed Prajwal Dev S D entered the quarterfinals in the boys under-18 section of the Innerwheel AITA Talent Series tennis tournament with a win over Surya Prasad here on Tuesday. In the pre-quarterfinal encounter, Prajwal won 9-4 to set up a clash with ...