Atul Chaturvedi takes over as Steel Secretary

November 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Atul Chaturvedi has taken over as steel secretary from P.K. Rastogi, a ministry statement said Tuesday.

October 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In a bid to introduce competitive bidding for allocation of coal blocks and benefit consuming industries, the government will soon replace the Mines and Minerals Development Regulation Act, 1957, a senior official said Wednesday. "The new draft bill would be placed before the cabinet soon.

September 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A man and his three associates were arrested in the national capital for stabbing his 36-year-old businessman brother for property, police said Wednesday. Atul Jain and three others, including a minor, were held for murdering Sandeep Jain in Vikaspuri in west Delhi, a police officer said.

August 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Steel Secretary P R Rastogi on Tuesday said that the growth in steel demand in the country would soon cross 10 percent, as soon as the effects of global economic slowdown would be over. Rastogi said this while addressing the third meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Group on Steel in the national capital.

August 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Steel Ministry has identified two Public Sector Units (PSUs) for disinvestment, and is going to send its recommendations to the cabinet later this month, Union Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh said on Friday. "We have identified two steel PSU's for disinvestment.

May 2nd, 2009 LUCKNOW - As many as 48 Congress workers were arrested for showing black flags to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Firozabad district in Uttar Pradesh, an official said Saturday. 'The Congress activists Friday waived black flags at the Gujarat chief minister and shouted slogans against him as he landed in Firozabad for an election rally,' district police chief Chandra Prakash told IANS by phone.

April 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh could be headed for legal trouble over his reported Rs.43 crore ($8.6 million) donation to the US-based Clinton Foundation. The Reserve Bank of India has suggested a probe by the Enforcement Directorate to ascertain possible violation of the country's financial laws in the alleged donation by Singh, for which he apparently did not seek the central bank's approval.

March 31st, 2009 LUCKNOW - Umesh Shukla, a leader of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), has been shot dead in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad district by two unidentified assailants, police said Tuesday. 'Umesh Shukla, who was a village head in Allahabad district, was shot dead by two men in Naini locality of Allahabad,' police inspector Indrajeet Chaturvedi told IANS over telephone.

March 21st, 2009 GHAZIABAD - Gandhigiri has landed a 65-year-old man, who claimed to have contested the presidential elections in 2007, in police custody. Attired as Mahatma Gandhi, Mahesh Chaturvedi had been distributing pamphlets and pasting posters here asking people to boycott elections, till he was arrested Friday.

March 3rd, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Two most wanted Maoist leaders, including an alleged mastermind in the killing of Hindu leader Laxmanananda Saraswati, were arrested in Orissa Monday, the police said. The two leftist militant leaders, Atul and Ashutosh, were arrested near steel city of Rourkela, some 470 km from here, Orissa Director General of Police Manmohan Praharaj told IANS Atul was allegedly involved in the killing of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader and four of his associates Aug 23 last year in Kandhamal district.

February 8th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh has been accused of having used 'hawala' channels to transfer illegal money to the Clinton Foundation in the US, according to a petition filed with the Election Commission Monday. Vishwanath Chaturvedi, who had earlier moved a public suit on Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's alleged disproportionate assets, filed this petition before the Chief Election Commissioner in New Delhi Monday.

February 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Senior Congress MP Satyavrat Chaturvedi said Monday that any pre-poll alliance in Uttar Pradesh with the Samajwadi Party would harm the party, a view that was immediately opposed by the Congress as his 'personal opinion'. 'The Congress should contest alone and if it enters into an alliance (with Samajwadi Party) it will definitely lose the votes of the minority and secular minded people,' Chaturvedi said here.

February 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Senior Congress MP Satyavrat Chaturvedi said Monday that any pre-poll alliance in Uttar Pradesh with the Samajwadi Party would harm the party, a view that was immediately opposed by the Congress as his 'personal opinion'. 'The Congress should contest alone and if it enters into an alliance (with Samajwadi Party) it will definitely lose the votes of the minority and secular minded people,' Chaturvedi said here.

January 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Taking a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the controversy over its prime ministerial candidate, the Congress party Friday suggested that the BJP and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) should conduct an internal election to finalise a consensual name. 'Their (BJP and NDA) list of PMs-in-waiting is increasing day by day.

January 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress MP Satyavrat Chaturvedi was Thursday removed as a spokesperson of the party, a day after he asked Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh to go for 'physical and mental check up'. 'Chaturvedi has been removed from the panel of the Congress spokespersons,' a Congress leader told IANS.