Bengal MGNREGA workers lost up to Rs 6,046 crore in wages during April-December 2022

 A study estimates that workers have lost income by 83%, compelling them to borrow money for survival 

Who can touch diesel?

India’s diesel vehicle industry is so powerful that even a Volkswagen-like exposé of the cover-up of diesel emissions is like water …

SC questions coal ministry’s power to allocate coal blocks

CBI opposes probe by a special investigation team

Divided colours of Maharashtra irrigation scam papers

Truth behind irrigation mess yet to unravel

Reservoir of corruption

How irrigation projects in Maharashtra harnessed money, not water

Coal scam: spare 46 coal blocks, Centre urges SC

BJP government seeks to protect 46 mines, already producing coal, from imminent cancellation by Supreme Court. Cites investments and a looming …

Cabinet committee approves auction method for coal blocks

Coal ministry directed to follow environment ministry guidelines on inviolate areas, forests and wildlife habitats

Granite mining scam: Tamil Nadu police raid Union fertiliser minister’s son’s company

He along with others grabbed the land of people belonging to backward caste and used it to store mined granite

Fodder scam: Lalu gets five years in jail

BJP leaders of Bihar say judgement will act as a corruption cleaner

Odisha mining scam: petition in SC seeks closure of illegal mines

As Shah Commission report gets tabled in Parliament, Delhi-based NGO, Common Cause, seeks Supreme Court's intervention for a macro environment …

All about mobile spectrum

India’s demand for mobile phones is almost insatiable. Telecom companies are falling over themselves to cash in on it, even if it means …

Maharashtra government's ATR on irrigation scam omits naming Ajit Pawar

Opposition threatens legal action unless deputy chief minister is punished

Coal scam: fait accompli no ground for not cancelling coal blocks, says SC

Apex court says companies which invested money on coal blocks without getting green clearances took the decision at their own risk

Corruption taint mattered little

People vote in politicians accused in illegal mining activities in Karnataka, Odisha

Solar street lights scam: Patna HC seeks explanation from state government

Petition demands CBI probe into purchase of substandard lights at inflated cost

AAP manifesto: decentralisation, the magic wand to tackle three 'Cs'

Free medicines, universal healthcare and a unique natural resources policy to check coal- and 2G-type scams find place in Aam Aadmi Party's list …

Demand for SIT probe into Centre's child nutrition scheme

Supreme Court commissioners report multi-crore scam involving private contractors and bureaucrats in food distribution under Integrated Child …

Maharashtra's white paper on irrigation projects fails to answer key questions

Activists, citizens groups enraged by silence on hyped water availability estimates, bad construction and corruption

Supreme Court terms coal block allocations 'illegal'

Bench headed by chief justice says Centre made the allocations in an arbitrary and unfair manner

Revival plan for whom?

Karnataka's ambitious plan to restore the ecology of illegal mining-hit Ballari has no representation from affected communities and environmentalists

People’s tribunal throws new light on Sister Valsa John’s murder

New report by tribunal comprising leading lawyers and researchers suggests the nun fighting for land rights of tribal people in Jharkhand was …

Lawyer cum RTI activist who exposed MGNREGA scam in Bihar shot dead

Police accused of not providing protection to victim Ram Kumar Thakur and helping village mukhiya, the prime accused in the murder

Water proved crucial for BJP’s victory in Maharashtra election

Chief ministerial candidate Devendra Fadnavis was instrumental in unearthing the irrigation scam; many candidates who worked on water …

Public hearing for Jindal coal project in Raigarh held amid protests

Will National Green Tribunal accept the second public hearing; it had dismissed the first one held five years ago as a ‘farce’

Supreme Court orders CBI probe against Yeddyurappa in mining scam

Jindal Steel Works and South West Mining will also be investigated for allegedly paying bribes to kin of former chief minister