Monday, July 13, 1998
TN Government moves HC to lift stay on Jaya's cases
The Tamil Nadu government has filed a petition in the Madras High Court seeking to vacate the interim order restraining the three special courts set up to investigate the corruption cases against former CM J Jayalalitha. The state government alleged that the accused were delaying the proceedings by protracted arguments and maintained that the interim stay order will only further the delay.
Karnataka Government to chuck Bhadra; to go for Tunga project instead
The Karnataka Government decided on Saturday to drop the controversial Upper Bhadra irrigation project and instead take up the Rs 2,024-crore Tunga diversion project, so as to utilise the 20 TMC water conserved by modernising the Vijayanagar, Bhadra and Godavari canals. A decision in this regard was taken at a meeting convened by Irrigation Minister K N Nage Gowda.
Goa Power Minister in new scandal
Goa's controversial Power Minister Mauvin Godinho, in the centre of a power rebate scandal, now finds the Science and Technology Department also headed by him in another mess. A contract given by this department to an Australian company, Studio C, to construct an oceanarium at Miramar has resulted in controversy, with Studio C unable to commence work on time.
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