Coal Fields

Coal-Gate: PM reportedly asked law officers if he is an accused in the coal case

Reported by Sunil Prabhu, Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Wednesday May 1, 2013

In a meeting with the government's top law officers, the Prime Minister reportedly asked if he is an accused in a case that searches why coal fields were given to private players without transparency, allegedly losing the government vast amounts of m...

Coal-Gate: Attorney General GE Vahanvati's rebuttal appears thin in substance

Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Wednesday May 1, 2013

The CBI's investigation into how coal fields were allocated to private players has turned into a rip tide for the government, with some if its A-listers trying to stay afloat despite charges of brazen misconduct.

Coal-Gate: Supreme Court hearing tomorrow, PM Manmohan Singh meets Attorney General GE Vahanvati

Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Monday April 29, 2013

Amid a controversy that the opposition cites as grounds for his resignation, the Prime Minister met Attorney General GE Vahanvati to discuss the government's strategy on the scandal nick-named "Coal-Gate," centred around coal fields that were allocat...

Opposition agrees that Finance Bill can be taken up tomorrow in Parliament

Edited by Amit Chaturvedi | Monday April 29, 2013

As expected, there was total chaos in both Houses of Parliament this morning, with the Opposition shouting angry slogans against the government and demanding the resignation of Law Minister Ashwani Kumar for trying to influence the CBI's inquiry into...

Coal scam: Prime Minister must quit, says BJP after CBI's disclosures

Edited by Amit Chaturvedi | Friday April 26, 2013

The CBI has admitted to the Supreme Court that a version of its report on how the government mishandled the allocation of coal fields to private firms was seen before it was shared with judges last month by Law Minister Ashwani Kumar, and bureaucrats...

Cancel all coal field allocations since 1993: parliamentary report

Edited by Mala Das | Tuesday April 23, 2013

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has, last month, indicted the government for costing the country thousands of crores by allocating coal fields from 2004 to 2009 without checking the financial and other records of private firms who applied f...

Coal scam report: PM must resign, demands opposition; let them ask, retorts Sonia Gandhi

Edited by Surabhi Malik | Tuesday April 23, 2013

There was chaos in Parliament today as the BJP demanded that the Prime Minister should resign for his government's alleged attempt to influence the CBI's report on its investigation into how coal fields were allotted.

Govt allegedly vetted coal report: who said what

NDTV.com | Saturday April 13, 2013

The government is under attack from the opposition over allegations that the Law Minister and senior officials in the Prime Minister's Office may have reviewed and altered a report submitted by the CBI to the Supreme Court on how coal fields were all...

Coal field allocation was arbitary, says CBI; BJP says PM was in charge

Reported by A Vaidyanathan, edited by Samira Shaikh | Tuesday March 12, 2013

The government faces new controversy over how it chose private players for coal blocks, a process indicted by the CBI as "arbitary and flawed" in a report shared in the Supreme Court today.

Coal fields were allocated without scrutiny and arbitrarily, says CBI

Edited by Surabhi Malik | Tuesday March 12, 2013

A report by the CBI has informed the Supreme Court that valuable coal fields were assigned to private firms via "a flawed and arbitrary process." The findings will further embarrass the government, which has been on the defensive since its auditor s...

Essar Energy gets environmental clearance for Raniganj gas block

Monday March 4, 2013

Essar Energy Plc said it has received environmental clearance for a coal bed methane gas field in Raniganj that will allow it to increase production to 3 million standard cubic metres of gas per day (scmd) from 60,000 scmd there.

CAG is not a munim (accountant), says Supreme Court

Edited by Prasad Sanyal | Monday October 1, 2012

The comment was made as the judges rejected a Public Interest Litigation or PIL challenging the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on coal, which said that by allocating coal fields without transparency the government has allowed private firms...

Congress strikes back. CBI to investigate coal blocks allocated by NDA too

Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Monday September 24, 2012

The coal scam, centred on companies faking papers and expertise to corner under-priced coal fields, has so far offered corroborative proof of crony capitalism and circumstantial evidence of corruption. The CBI has so far filed seven cases against com...

Coal-gate: Did companies hire bureaucrats who helped them get coal fields?

Reported by Alok Pandey | Friday September 14, 2012

The investigation into the coal scam has the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) looking at whether bureaucrats colluded with private companies to get coal blocks despite being ineligible. What is clear already is that several senior bureaucrats wh...

Coal scandal: Why the Sancheti deal weakens the BJP's attack

Edited by Surabhi Malik | Thursday September 6, 2012

Investigations into the coal scandal have led to charges of criminal conspiracy and cheating against a Congress parliamentarian and his brother, a Maharashtra minister. But as the party is pointing out, the opposition BJP has its own share of explai...