Manmohan Singh cleared Suresh Kalmadi as chief of CWG committee: Official documentsThis was at variance with the original bid document for the Games that said the chair of the organising committee would be a government app...
14 Nov, 2016, 12.16 PM IST
Arms deal whistleblower claims Varun Gandhi was honey-trapped, blackmailedIn a September 16 letter sent to the PMO, the whistleblower alleged Gandhi was being blackmailed. He has provided a CD with several picture...
20 Oct, 2016, 05.46 PM IST
No records to confirm birth date of ex-PM Chandrashekhar: PMOWhile the PMO website claimed that the date of birth of the former Prime Minister was July 1, 1927, the Uttar Pradesh government had declar...
06 Oct, 2016, 05.02 PM IST
Congress governments destroyed Netaji files: Declassified papersThe commission had sought photocopies of orders regarding destruction of filesdocuments concerning Netaji as also photocopies of the lists ...
30 Mar, 2016, 12.11 PM IST
Document on judges appointment reaches PMO for final approvalThe NDA government wants both the Centre and state governments to have say in recommending candidates for appointment to the higher judicia...
21 Mar, 2016, 04.40 PM IST
CPIO told to furnish Vyapam information, documents sought under RTIThe PMO had also directed to seek specific information regarding documents which were required by the applicant.
27 Oct, 2015, 03.57 PM IST
Modi government takes UPA line; won't disclose Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose filesThe Right to Information Act allows for a public authority to disclose records which are otherwise exempt from disclosure if public interes...
06 Feb, 2015, 07.44 PM IST
PM Narendra Modi pushes for self-attestation of documentsIn a bid to save the common man from hassles, Modi pushed for shifting to self-certification of documents and pitched for minimum use of af...
02 Aug, 2014, 11.41 AM IST
Process for Sachin Tendulkar's Bharat Ratna initiated on 1st day of farewell testThe process of conferring the country's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna on batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar was initiated on the first...
02 Feb, 2014, 08.44 PM IST
CBI seeks files and correspondence from PMO on coal block allocation to HindalcoApart from govt, the corporate world too could be in for more trouble as CBI revealed that nearly 85 pvt cos are under its scanner in the c...
23 Oct, 2013, 05.54 AM IST
- Check existence of information before seeking exemption: CIC to PMO
CIC has directed the Prime Minister's Office to first ensure existence of info within the department before seeking exemption under the RTI...
15 Oct, 2012, 02.53 PM IST
Power producers take on CIL over lopsided fuel supply pactsFrustrated by uncertainty over fuel supply despite a presidential decree, power firms have adopted a confrontational approach towards Coal ...
14 May, 2012, 08.20 AM IST
Rail Budget 2012: Railway Ministry ignores PMO's repeated pleas to speed up key PPP projectsNumerous requests from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) asking the railway ministry to invite or rework financial bids on two ambitious pr...
12 Mar, 2012, 01.11 PM IST
- 2G scam: 2G note an inter-department affair, says finance minister Pranab Mukherjee
Mukherjee has formally told that 'Office Memorandum' from Finance Ministry to PMO on 2G spectrum allocation was an inter-dept exercise.
29 Sep, 2011, 03.19 AM IST
- Army Chief had approached PMO for intervention in age issue
At a time when the Defence Ministry was considering his date of birth issue, Army Chief General V K Singh had approached the PMO seeking it...
02 Sep, 2011, 09.19 PM IST
- Make assets of ministers public: CIC
CIC directed PMO to declare assets of the Union ministers.
08 Jun, 2010, 05.00 AM IST
- Assets of ministers, kin exempt from RTI: PMO
At a time when pressure is mounting on the judiciary to disclose its assets, the executive wing of the government has come into the limelig...
02 Feb, 2009, 11.31 AM IST