After General VK Singh had taken over as Chief of Army Staff in 2010, a retired Lieutenant General, whose name figures in the Adarsh Society Housing scandal called on him at the office ostensibly to discuss developments in Kashmir. Read more

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Posted by Shishir Gupta on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 3:23 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Adarsh Society Housing, AK Antony, Avadesh Prakash, Booze Brigadier, CBI, corruption, Deepak Kapoor, General VK Singh, hindustan times, Ketchup Colonel, news, Rao Inderjit Singh, Ration General, Thamburaj
A day before Prithviraj Chavan was sworn in as Maharashtra chief minister, he was with Ahmed Patel, the political secretary to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, at his residence in Mumbai at 3 am waiting for word from party-designated central observers Pranab Mukherjee and A K Antony. Read more

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Posted by Shishir Gupta on Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 2:45 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Ahmed Patel, AK Antony, ashok chavan, hindustantimes, inside story, Lavasa, Maharashtra, Manmohan Singh, mumbai, NCP, Pranab Mukherjee, Prithviraj Chavan, Rahul Gandhi, Shishir Gupta, Sonia Gandhi, sushil kumar shinde, Vilasrao Deshmukh
Embedded in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s get-well-soon message to Anna Hazare, who is recuperating in a Gurgaon hospital, was a tacit admission by the UPA government that Gandhians should be won over with flowers, not force. Read more

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Posted by Shishir Gupta on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 9:53 am
Filed under India · Tagged AK Antony, Anna Hazare, Azhagiri, Cabinet Committee of Political Affairs, Congress, Congress Core Group meeting, corruption, Farooq Abdullah, Jan Lokpal Bill, Manmohan Singh, Mayur Vihar, New Delhi, P Chidambaram, Pranab Mukherjee, Prithviraj Chauhan, Ramlila Maidan, Sharad Pawar, Shishir Gupta, Team Anna, UPA