Guwahati: Dubbing the UPA government as a "national security risk", BJP leader Yashwant Sinha on Sunday said his party will not rest till Prime Minister Manmohan Singh resigned over the coal block allocations issue. "The BJP and NDA are determined to fight it out. We will not rest till we bring down this corrupt government. This government has to go because it has become a national security risk," Sinha said...
07:07 PM, Sep 02, 2012
Indore: Targeting Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Sunday alleged that he had violated the oath of secrecy. "After Rai assumed the office of CAG, its reports started leaking. Before him, CAG never made public the issues of confrontation with the government in this way," he alleged, saying that Rai had violated the oath of secrecy. The Congress general secretary had said on Friday...
06:21 PM, Sep 02, 2012
New Delhi: Amidst the storm over CAG report on coal block allocation, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has expressed displeasure over inaction by the Coal Ministry in cancelling blocks where mining has not taken place and asked it to expedite the matter by September 6. The PMO communication to the Coal Ministry came ahead of the Inter-Ministerial Group Meeting (IMG) on Monday to take a decision on the fate of...
03:56 AM, Sep 02, 2012
Raipur: Senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh on Saturday said the deadlock in Parliament over allocation of coal blocks will continue unless Prime Minister Manmohan Singh resigns from his post on "moral grounds". He, however, clarified that the party would not bring a no-trust motion against the UPA government. "The irregularities in allocation of coal blocks are part of the biggest-ever scam in the Independent India. BJP wants all the (coal...
11:14 PM, Sep 01, 2012
Ahmedabad: Alleging that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was directly responsible for the coal allocation scam, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley on Saturday asked BJP workers to take the fight against Congress's corruption to the streets. Addressing the party workers here, Jaitley said "the Prime Minister is saying that he will prefer to remain silent on the allegations against him but he is directly responsible for the coal...
10:27 PM, Sep 01, 2012
New Delhi: In order to break the deadlock in Parliament over the CAG report on alleged irregularities in the allocation of coal blocks, Congress President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi has called up Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, the BJP leader revealed in her tweet. "Mrs Gandhi spoke to me on phone. She wanted the Parliamentary impasse to end by our agreeing to a discussion. I...
09:27 PM, Sep 01, 2012
Kolkata: The BJP on Saturday once again sought the support of Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on the alleged coalgate scam and urged her to quit the UPA as she has a 'clear image'. "Mamataji's clear image which is known in the country does not match the corrupt image of the Congress. The UPA ship will sink in 2014," BJP spokesperson Syed Shahnawaz Hussain told a press conference in Kolkata....
08:43 PM, Sep 01, 2012
The Lok Sabha Speaker says that Parliament can only function when there are discussions and debates. Both the Houses could not function through the week due to the hard stands taken by the Government and the BJP over the CAG report on coal blocks allocations. ...
05:07 PM, Sep 01, 2012
Kapil Sibal on Friday said the government would not have over-ruled objections by Opposition chief ministers on coal blocks issue. ...
11:51 PM, Aug 31, 2012
New Delhi: Unfazed by Opposition protests in the wake of the CAG report, the government on Friday ruled out cancellation of allocation of coal blocks maintaining that no wrong has been done. "There is no question of cancellation. I personally would be opposed to it because it would mean you are accepting your guilt... No wrong has been done anywhere," Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal told reporters. Seeking to...
06:05 PM, Aug 31, 2012
New Delhi: Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Friday targeted CAG Vinod Rai suggesting he has a political agenda like one of his controversial predecessors TN Chaturvedi, who had given a report on Bofors issue and soon after joined the BJP. Hitting out at the national audit body for computing "imaginative losses" in coal blocks allocation and setting a precedent by going to press, he said, "I am reminded somewhat of...
05:20 PM, Aug 31, 2012
On-board Air India One: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday hit out at the BJP over the CAG coal block allocations report. Returning from Tehran after attending the NAM summit, the Prime Minister on board Air India One said that he does not want to go into war of words or slanging match with other political leaders. "I have to maintain the dignity of the office of the Prime Minister....
03:21 PM, Aug 31, 2012
New Delhi: A Deputy Comptroller Auditor General (CAG) had contested the Rs 1.86 lakh presumptive loss figure in the CAG report on coal blocks allocation. CNN-IBN has accessed the minutes of the exit meeting with the Coal Ministry to discuss the performance audit before the report was finalised. In the meeting held on March 9, 2012, Deputy CAG Saroj Punhani contested the Rs 1.86 lakh presumptive loss figure in the...
01:46 PM, Aug 31, 2012
IAF loses nine men as choppers collide mid-air. First FIR in coal blocks scam to be filed soon. ...
11:36 PM, Aug 30, 2012
New Delhi: An adamant BJP continued to disrupt Parliament for the seventh consecutive day on Thursday over coal block allocation but the government pushed through two bills amid growing isolation of NDA among non-UPA parties. The Chemical Weapons Convention (Amendment) Bill and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (Amendment) Bill were passed in the Lok Sabha by voice vote without any discussion within a few minutes amid din created by...
09:50 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Barmer: Congress President Sonia Gandhi took the coal war to the people on Thursday, slamming the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the deadlock in Parliament at a public rally. Sonia has dared the BJP for a debate on coal blocks allocation in Parliament. Taking on the BJP while speaking in Barmer, Sonia said, "Any difficult issue should be discussed in Parliament. It's sad that some political parties are disrupting the...
03:41 PM, Aug 30, 2012
New Delhi: 2.02 pm: Rajya Sabha adjourned for the day after uproar over coal block allocation and other issues. 12.14 pm: Lok Sabha adjourned till Friday. 12.12 pm: Rajya Sabha adjourned till 2 pm. 12.01 pm: Parliament resumes, uproar continues. 11.55 am: Congress leader Harish Rawat on Thursday said that the BJP is adamant not to run the Parliament on the coalgate issue. "We have tried to speak to the...
11:08 AM, Aug 30, 2012
New Delhi: Parliament will reconvene on Thursday after a day's recess, but it is unlikely to function given the continuing stalemate on the CAG report on coal block allocations. Both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress have refused to budge and are blaming each other. While the BJP is firm on demanding Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's resignation, the Congress has now slammed the BJP over the coal block allocations...
10:07 AM, Aug 30, 2012
New Delhi: Rebutting the criticism by the government and the Congress party on coal blocks allocation, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on Wednesday said it has the mandate to examine and scrutinise public policies. "...policies of a government do not emerge from vacuum but a culmination of a due diligence process that involves faithful examination and analysis of empirical evidence on the ground, higher values of governance, feasibility of...
07:05 PM, Aug 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Samajwadi Party, which is supporting UPA from outside, on Tuesday, saw "internal Congress politics" behind the disruptions by the BJP in Parliament wondering whether it was for replacing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with Rahul Gandhi. "Some people from inside Congress want to remove Manmohan Singh and bring in the Yuvraaj. I have my doubts if this politics (demand of PMs resignation by BJP) is being played out...
12:09 AM, Aug 29, 2012
