Missing Coal Files

• CBI registers two enquiries on missing coal files

  The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today registered two preliminary enquiries to look into the issue of missing files on coal block allocations from the Coal Ministry.

• Coal-Gate: all files aren't missing, some never existed, says government

  Sources say that at a meeting with the CBI today, they will argue that the government is being wrongly accused of allowing important documents to disappear; instead, the government will claim that some of these files never existed.

• Missing coal files: PM uses silence as a weapon, says BJP leader Arun Jaitley

  In a no-holds barred attack on the Prime Minister in connection with missing coal allocation files, senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley has slammed Dr Manmohan Singh for using silence as a weapon of concealment.

• Coal-gate: PM must volunteer for CBI questioning, says Sushma Swaraj

  The Opposition today took on the government over the missing coal files issue, with BJP leader Sushma Swaraj leading the attack. Below are the highlights from the debate in Parliament:

• Parliament deadlock over 'coal-gate': PM's dinner diplomacy fails, BJP to continue offensive

  The Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP will decide this morning whether it will continue to disrupt Parliament over missing coal files in the last three days of the monsoon session, which ends on Friday. Top BJP leaders who dined with the Prime Minister last night, gave him no assurance that they would facilitate the clearance of at least five crucial B...

• Prime Minister's statement in the Lok Sabha on missing coal files

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today made a statement in both the houses on the missing coal files.

• Missing coal files: PM speaks in Parliament

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today spoke in the Rajya Sabha on the missing coal files relating to the allocation of coal blocks.

• Missing coal files: the government has nothing to hide, says Prime Minister

  Targeted by the opposition on missing coal allocation files in Parliament, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the government had nothing to hide.

• Food Bill in Rajya Sabha today; discuss missing coal files first says BJP

  Protests over missing coal allocation and a proposal to check fuel demand by shutting petrol pumps early may stall the government's plan to debate and pass its ambitious Food Security Bill in the Rajya Sabha today, a critical step before it can become law.

• 'Is it an attempt to destroy records?' Supreme Court slams govt on missing coal files

  The Supreme Court today slammed the CBI for the 'slow pace' of its probe into the allegedly illegal allocation of coal blocks to private parties at throwaway prices.

• Coal-Gate: seven files still missing, government tells Supreme Court

  Under attack for losing important documents that explain how coal fields were allocated to private firms, the government today told the Supreme Court that seven files remain missing and that it is trying to locate them.

• Missing coal files: Govt to firefight in Parliament, Supreme Court

  The government is likely to give an explanation to the Supreme Court today on missing files related to the allocation of coal mining blocks to private parties at throwaway prices at a huge loss to the government - the scandal known as 'coal-gate'.

• Food Bill to be debated in Parliament today, PM may speak on missing coal files

  The Food Bill, repeatedly stalled due to disruptions over the past two weeks, is scheduled to come up again in the Lok Sabha today. Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi is expected to lead the debate if it happens.

• How many files missing? Only seven says Coal Minister, 225 says CBI

  After days of government-opposition war that ended with a carefully worked out compromise, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh came to the Rajya Sabha on Friday ready to speak on missing coal allocation files. But the House adjourned in a chaos of protests by anti-Telangana MPs.

• PM to speak after coal compromise, now Telangana protests block House

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to speak on the missing coal allocation files in Parliament today after the government, desperate to pass key legislation including the Food Security Bill, gave in to the Opposition's demand.