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Adani's Controversial Australia Mine Will Be Used For Electricity In India
Billionaire Gautam Adani's coal mine in Australia, a project that's become a global emblem for opposition to fossil fuels, is preparing to begin exports after more than a decade of bitter dispute over its development.
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Row Over 2 Environment Clearances In Protected Wildlife Areas In Assam
There is a controversy brewing in Assam over environment clearances given for two separate projects. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has given clearance for hydrocarbon drilling to Oil India Limited at seven locations under the Dibru Saikhowa National Park in Assam's Tinsukia district at time when there is already a lot of cr...
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Adani, Targeted By Greta Thunberg, Undeterred By Protests For Australia
The Adani conglomerate coming under increasing pressure over its controversial coal mine in Australia said it won't let protests dissuade it from completing the project. The group, controlled by Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, is responding to an uptick in scrutiny over the Carmichael development, including from high-profile teen activist Greta Th...
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Australian PM Turnbull Backs Adani's Mine Project In Queensland
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has strongly supported energy giant Adani's controversial 16.5 billion dollar coal mine in Queensland, saying the project has gone through extensive environmental permitting and should go ahead.
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Sushma Swaraj Tweets About Big Reveal in Parliament on Congress Leader
Union Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted this morning that she would reveal in Parliament the name of a senior Congress leader who lobbied with her for a diplomatic passport for a coal scam accused leader.
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Government's Bills Face Great Wall of Rajya Sabha
On Tuesday, when the Lok Sabha passed the controversial land bill, the Congress and some other opposition parties were not present in the House. They had walked out, signalling to the government that they are united in their resolve to not let its key reforms pass the Rajya Sabha test.
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Coal-Gate: Without Naming Him, Court Asks Why Former PM Wasn't Examined
A court in Delhi today asked the country's premier investigating agency why it had not questioned former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about the controversial and allegedly illegal allocation in 2005 of a coal block to a firm owned by billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla. Dr Singh held direct charge of the Coal Ministry at the time.
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Coal Case Against Birla, Parakh: Special Public Prosecutor Challenges CBI's Closure Report
The controversial case against industrialist Kumaramangalam Birla and former coal secretary PC Parakh has again taken a strange turn. The Special Public Prosecutor appointed recently in the case seems to have taken a stand contrary to that of the investigating agency.
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Centre's Stand on CBI Chief Case Important, Says Supreme Court
Whether CBI director Ranjit Sinha will continue in the post may soon be decided by the Supreme Court, which today asked the Centre to submit a report that could establish a link between Mr Sinha and a controversial meat exporter investigated for tax fraud.
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CBI Drops Coal Scam Case Against Industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla
The CBI has said it would like to end its investigation into one of the most controversial episodes of the scandal known as "Coal-gate" - as it has found "no evidence of criminality" in the allegation that one of the country's most-respected industrialists, Kumar Mangalam Birla, colluded with a former top coal ministry bureaucrat, PC Parkah, to ill...
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Coal Gas Boom in China Holds Climate Change Risks
Deep in the hilly grasslands of remote Inner Mongolia, twin smoke stacks rise more than 200 feet into the sky, their steam and sulfur billowing over herds of sheep and cattle. Both day and night, the rumble of this power plant echoes across the ancient steppe, and its acrid stench travels dozens of miles away.
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Coal-Gate: CBI shares details of Birla case with Supreme Court, say sources
The CBI has shared details with the Supreme Court about its controversial case against industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and the government's former coal secretary PC Parakh. The agency has said the men conspired to ensure "undue favour" to Mr Birla's firm, Hindalco, which landed two coal blocks in Odisha in 2005. The allocation has been defended...
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Coal scam: CBI files status report on probe after controversy over PM's role
The CBI today filed a status report briefing the Supreme Court on its progress in the coal block allocation scam case or 'Coal-Gate'.
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PM's Office defends coal block allocation to Kumar Mangalam Birla's Hindalco: Full statement
Breaking its silence, the Prime Minister's Office today rejected any criminality in the controversial allocation of coal block to Hindalco, saying Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had approved it on the basis of "merits" of the case placed before him.
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Manmohan Singh cannot be kept out of CBI probe: Arun Jaitley
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh cannot be kept out of the CBI probe into the controversial coal block allocation as he was the "competent authority" when the decision was taken, senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley said today.
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Adani's Controversial Australia Mine Will Be Used For Electricity In India
Billionaire Gautam Adani's coal mine in Australia, a project that's become a global emblem for opposition to fossil fuels, is preparing to begin exports after more than a decade of bitter dispute over its development.
-
Row Over 2 Environment Clearances In Protected Wildlife Areas In Assam
There is a controversy brewing in Assam over environment clearances given for two separate projects. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has given clearance for hydrocarbon drilling to Oil India Limited at seven locations under the Dibru Saikhowa National Park in Assam's Tinsukia district at time when there is already a lot of cr...
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Adani, Targeted By Greta Thunberg, Undeterred By Protests For Australia
The Adani conglomerate coming under increasing pressure over its controversial coal mine in Australia said it won't let protests dissuade it from completing the project. The group, controlled by Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, is responding to an uptick in scrutiny over the Carmichael development, including from high-profile teen activist Greta Th...
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Australian PM Turnbull Backs Adani's Mine Project In Queensland
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has strongly supported energy giant Adani's controversial 16.5 billion dollar coal mine in Queensland, saying the project has gone through extensive environmental permitting and should go ahead.
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Sushma Swaraj Tweets About Big Reveal in Parliament on Congress Leader
Union Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted this morning that she would reveal in Parliament the name of a senior Congress leader who lobbied with her for a diplomatic passport for a coal scam accused leader.
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Government's Bills Face Great Wall of Rajya Sabha
On Tuesday, when the Lok Sabha passed the controversial land bill, the Congress and some other opposition parties were not present in the House. They had walked out, signalling to the government that they are united in their resolve to not let its key reforms pass the Rajya Sabha test.
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Coal-Gate: Without Naming Him, Court Asks Why Former PM Wasn't Examined
A court in Delhi today asked the country's premier investigating agency why it had not questioned former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about the controversial and allegedly illegal allocation in 2005 of a coal block to a firm owned by billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla. Dr Singh held direct charge of the Coal Ministry at the time.
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Coal Case Against Birla, Parakh: Special Public Prosecutor Challenges CBI's Closure Report
The controversial case against industrialist Kumaramangalam Birla and former coal secretary PC Parakh has again taken a strange turn. The Special Public Prosecutor appointed recently in the case seems to have taken a stand contrary to that of the investigating agency.
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Centre's Stand on CBI Chief Case Important, Says Supreme Court
Whether CBI director Ranjit Sinha will continue in the post may soon be decided by the Supreme Court, which today asked the Centre to submit a report that could establish a link between Mr Sinha and a controversial meat exporter investigated for tax fraud.
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CBI Drops Coal Scam Case Against Industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla
The CBI has said it would like to end its investigation into one of the most controversial episodes of the scandal known as "Coal-gate" - as it has found "no evidence of criminality" in the allegation that one of the country's most-respected industrialists, Kumar Mangalam Birla, colluded with a former top coal ministry bureaucrat, PC Parkah, to ill...
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Coal Gas Boom in China Holds Climate Change Risks
Deep in the hilly grasslands of remote Inner Mongolia, twin smoke stacks rise more than 200 feet into the sky, their steam and sulfur billowing over herds of sheep and cattle. Both day and night, the rumble of this power plant echoes across the ancient steppe, and its acrid stench travels dozens of miles away.
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Coal-Gate: CBI shares details of Birla case with Supreme Court, say sources
The CBI has shared details with the Supreme Court about its controversial case against industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and the government's former coal secretary PC Parakh. The agency has said the men conspired to ensure "undue favour" to Mr Birla's firm, Hindalco, which landed two coal blocks in Odisha in 2005. The allocation has been defended...
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Coal scam: CBI files status report on probe after controversy over PM's role
The CBI today filed a status report briefing the Supreme Court on its progress in the coal block allocation scam case or 'Coal-Gate'.
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PM's Office defends coal block allocation to Kumar Mangalam Birla's Hindalco: Full statement
Breaking its silence, the Prime Minister's Office today rejected any criminality in the controversial allocation of coal block to Hindalco, saying Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had approved it on the basis of "merits" of the case placed before him.
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Manmohan Singh cannot be kept out of CBI probe: Arun Jaitley
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh cannot be kept out of the CBI probe into the controversial coal block allocation as he was the "competent authority" when the decision was taken, senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley said today.
