Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Nitin Gadkari Monday filed a defamation case against Congress leader Digvijay Singh for dragging his name into alleged irregularities in coal block allocation.
Gadkari appeared in the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Sudhesh Kumar to file the case.
According to the complaint, Digvijay Singh named him in the allocation of coal blocks to a company belonging to BJP’s Rajya Sabha member Ajay Sancheti. Sancheti has been alleged to be Gadkari’s close associate.
The government is committed to enacting the National Food Security Bill, which legally entitles poor families to five kilograms of subsidised grain per person per month, an official document said Thursday.
To commemorate the fourth anniversary of Sonia Gandhi’s led UPA – 2 governments a section of Main stream Media conducted surveys to evaluate the performance and also as a pointer for the next general elections which is due in 8 – 10 months time.
As the UPA got down to celebrating its fourth anniversary, the BJP Wednesday trained its guns on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and said he was neither leader of his party nor the country.
US Ambassador Nancy Powell Tuesday called for greater economic opening and more foreign investments for India's higher economic growth, saying "there is more yet to do" in the area of reforms to return to 10 percent growth.
