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  UPA erred by letting Kalmadi control CWG: ex-CAG

  Other Sports | September 12, 2014 7:47 IST

  New Delhi: Former comptroller and auditor general Vinod Rai Thursday said the then UPA government's decision to let party leader Suresh Kalmadi chair the organising committee of the Commonwealth Games, rather than a minister accountable

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  Manmohan Singh can't shirk responsibility in 2G and coal scams: Former CAG Vinod Rai

  India | September 12, 2014 12:31 IST

  New Delhi:  Vinod Rai, who served as the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) in the previous UPA government, has criticised former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and claimed that Congress leaders had sought to apply pressure

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  CBI will eventually give Parakh a clean chit: ex-CAG

  India | April 14, 2014 21:35 IST

  New Delhi: Former CAG Vinod Rai today came out in support of ex-Coal Secretary P C Parakh, who has been named in an FIR registered by CBI in coal block allocation scam, claiming the investigating

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  Not only discoms all Public Private Partnership projects should also be audited: Ex-CAG

  India | January 14, 2014 16:43 IST

  New Delhi: Former CAG Vinod Rai today said financial accounts of not only private power distributors but also of all Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects in the country should be audited by the government auditor.Rai,

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  Allow CAG to audit PPPs, Panchyati Raj bodies: Vinod Rai

  India | May 21, 2013 18:31 IST

  New Delhi, May 21: Outgoing Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai favours bringing all private-public partnerships (PPPs), Panchayti Raj Institutions and societies getting government funds within the ambit of the CAG.  As he prepares to

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  CAG should have powers of punishment: Vinod Rai

  India | March 15, 2013 22:27 IST

  New Delhi, Mar 16 : CAG Vinod Rai, whose audit reports had exposed the scams in 2-G spectrum allocation and other issues, today appeared to suggest that the official auditor should have the powers of

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  UPA government question CAG over 2G

  Politics | November 16, 2012 16:43 IST

  New Delhi, Nov 16: A day after the much-hyped 2G spectrum auction turned out to be a damp squib, both the UPA government and the Congress Thursday questioned the Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai's

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  Undermining CAG would boomerang on Congress: BJP

  Politics | November 12, 2012 15:06 IST

  Chennai, Nov 12:  Attempts to undermine the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) would boomerang on the Congress and scams would not vanish if constitutional bodies like the CAG were painted black, a senior BJP leader

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  CAG should plug leaks from his office: Digvijay

  Politics | November 08, 2012 17:47 IST

  New Delhi, Nov 8: Congress leader Digvijay Singh Thursday took a dig at the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) for his "valuable advice" on providing constitutional backing for the CBI and the CVC but wondered

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  CAG Vinod Rai wants constitutional status for CBI, CVC

  India | November 07, 2012 17:33 IST

  Gurgaon, Nov 7: The government needs to accord constitutional status to agencies like Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) to make them effective instruments for fighting corruption, said CAG Vinod Rai

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  Digvijay says CAG Vinod Rai has a political agenda

  Politics | August 31, 2012 19:39 IST

  New Delhi, Aug 31: Congress leader Digvijay Singh today targeted CAG Vinod Rai suggesting he has a political agenda like one of his controversial predecessors T N Chaturvedi, who had given a report on Bofors

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  CAG Vinod Rai posts personal details on website

  India | August 23, 2012 18:22 IST

  New Delhi, Aug 23: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) today posted Vinod Rai's high school certificate showing his date of birth and the letter of his appointment as CAG on its official website.This comes

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  Service records of CAG Vinod Rai missing

  India | August 22, 2012 19:36 IST

  Lucknow,  Aug 21: A Lucknow-based RTI activist Arvind Shukla has found out that the service records of Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG) Vinod Rai are missing.The service records “are not traceable”, the Department of Personnel and

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  Taxpayer Has Right To Know How His Money Is Spent, Says CAG

  India | March 29, 2012 7:36 IST

  Mumbai, Mar 29: The Government auditor CAG on Wednesday sought more powers for the constitutional body and said the common man has all the right to know how his tax money is being spent.“The legislature

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  CAG Admits To Draft Report On Coal Blocks

  India | March 23, 2012 7:40 IST

  New Delhi, Mar 23: CAG Vinod Rai today admitted to the existence of a “draft report” which a newspaper published to claim that there was an estimated loss of over Rs 10.7 lakh crores in

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  Democracy At Crossroads, Time To Speak Up : CAG Vinod Rai

  India | January 13, 2012 23:03 IST

  New Delhi, Jan 13: Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai, who has won many foes after a number of scams were unearthed by his watchdog, on Friday said the democracy was at the "crossroads"

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  CAG Objects To JPC Members Charge On 'Batting For Corporates'

  December 20, 2011 23:29 IST

  New Delhi, Dec 20: Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai today strongly objected to the charge of a member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on 2G that the top auditor was “batting for selective corporate

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  CAG Vinod Rai Deposes Before JPC On 2G Scam

  India | November 15, 2011 21:16 IST

  New Delhi, Nov 15: Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai on Tuesday revealed that his former colleague R.P. Singh had given a presumptive loss of upto Rs. 4.19 lakh crore on account of 2G spectrum

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  Central Vigilance Commissioner Supports Anna Movement

  India | November 13, 2011 16:21 IST

  New Delhi, Nov 13: Hailing the anti-corruption movement spearheaded by Gandhian Anna Hazare, Central Vigilance Commissioner Pradeep Kumar has said it depicts government's failure to create a honest and transparent mechanism to check graft.“India is

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  2G Scam : CAG To Appear Before JPC

  India | October 31, 2011 17:38 IST

  New Delhi, Oct 31: With the figure of Rs 1.76 lakh crore loss in 2G spectrum allocation being disputed, CAG Vinod Rai and other officials of the government auditor will be asked to appear before