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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
TopicComptroller of Auditor General

Topic: Comptroller of Auditor General

House panel recommends CAG audit of consultants’ work in Centre’s flagship Bharatmala project

Bharatmala Pariyojana, conceived by Centre in 2017 to develop 74,942 km of national highways, has overrun its costs and is well past its deadline.

CAG audit into renovation of Kejriwal’s residence: L-G office takes credit, AAP calls it drama

L-G's secretariat says Ministry of Home Affairs ordered CAG audit on the basis of its recommendation. AAP slams central govt for 'interfering in affairs od Delhi govt'.

Rawat push not enough. Military & bureaucracy must set aside rivalry for defence university

The idea of a national defence university, which India has been waiting to see for over 50 years now, was first mooted by the Chief of Staff Committee in 1967.

Has CAG Siachen report exposed Modi govt’s muscular national security pitch as hollow?

The CAG has flagged acute shortage and inadequate reserve of equipment and rations for Army troops in high-altitude areas of Siachen, Ladakh and Doklam.

ESIC health insurance scheme is flush with funds but that isn’t helping low-wage workers

ESIC has been battling several wars on different fronts — jump in subscriber base, poor infrastructure and bureaucratic processes.

On Camera

From ‘Jai Kisan’ to CVC, Shastri walked the talk. But corruption proved harder to root out

Set up by Lal bahadur Shastri, the Santhanam Committee's key concern was that corruption, once limited to the lower rungs of the bureaucracy, had now infected the All India Services and political leadership.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.