New Delhi: The BJP on Wednesday on met President Pranab Mukherjee and sought his intervention to stop attacks on constitutional bodies. Senior BJP leaders LK Advani, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and Murli Manohar Joshi met the President in the hope of putting more pressure on the UPA government over the coal block allocation controversy. Advani said that he was disappointed the way Prime Minister Manmohan Singh questioned the CAG report...
01:24 PM, Sep 12, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday defended itself over the CAG report on coal block allocation saying there was no scam in it. Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh claimed the Congress made no money out of the allocation of coal blocks and said that the CBI was only investigating whether some companies were eligible for getting coal blocks. The party also defended Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying he made no...
01:02 PM, Sep 12, 2012
Kolkata: Samajawadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday warned the UPA as well as the NDA that they would not be able to form the next government at the Centre without the support of smaller parties which are not part of their alliances. Making a pitch for a non-UPA, non-NDA Third Front, Mulayam urged his party workers to get ready for a larger role at the national level....
11:59 AM, Sep 12, 2012
New Delhi: A group of senior BJP leaders is expected to meet President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday. Leaders like LK Advani, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and Murli Manohar Joshi are likely to build pressure on the UPA government over its demands related to coal block allocation. The BJP has been defiantly demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and an impartial probe into the matter. The Congress on Tuesday...
08:22 AM, Sep 12, 2012
Coal controller recommends de-allocation of Naveen Jindal's company. Former Goa CMs Digambar Kamat and Pratapsingh Rane face arrest. ...
11:50 PM, Sep 11, 2012
The coal controller report recommended the Inter Ministerial Group (IMG) to de-allocate coal blocks to Jindal Steel and Bhushan Steel. ...
11:34 PM, Sep 11, 2012
New Delhi: Terming coalgate as a "bigger scam" than 2G, the Samajwadi Party on Tuesday demanded cancellation of coal block allocations and accused Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal of taking arbitrary decisions. "When the entire truth comes out, people will be surprised that it is a much bigger scam than 2G scam...the Prime Minister should take initiative in ordering a probe and cancel all coal block allocations," Samajwadi Party general secretary...
10:30 PM, Sep 11, 2012
New Delhi: In a major development in connection with the coal blocks allocation controversy, the coal controller report recommended the Inter Ministerial Group (IMG) to de-allocate coal blocks to Jindal Steel and Bhushan Steel. The coal controller report accessed by CNN-IBN covers as many as 18 companies and will give its final recommendations to the Coal Minister by September 15. In its report, the CCO has also recommended extension of...
09:26 PM, Sep 11, 2012
New Delhi: Demanding a probe into fresh reports in the allocation of 142 coal blocks by the UPA government, the BJP on Tuesday said it is "truly amazing" that relatives and associates of union ministers have gained soon after the latter occupied the high offices. "It is truly amazing that the enterprenuerial skills of the kith and kin of UPA ministers shine only when the brothers are ministers," BJP Chief...
06:34 PM, Sep 11, 2012
New Delhi: In a stinging attack on the CAG, the Congress on Monday alleged that the government auditor was as much responsible as the BJP for the disruption of the just-concluded monsoon session of Parliament on the coal mine allocation issue. Party spokesperson Manish Tewari also sought to make a major issue out of a telephone call by a senior BJP leader to the CAG on a yet-to-be-tabled report by...
09:43 PM, Sep 10, 2012
New Delhi: Congress MP Naveen Jindal on Monday denied that his company was allotted a coal block in violation of government norms, saying his company had the technology to convert coal into liquid fuel. Jindal said that the government had invited 28 companies, of which only two had the experience to convert coal to liquid fuel and according to him, his company, Jindal Steel and Power Limited, had the best...
07:30 PM, Sep 10, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI has shortlisted the people who are likely to be called for recording their statements in connection with five cases registered by it for alleged irregularities in allocation of captive coal blocks. Agency sources said in the first batch, the accused named in the FIRs against JLD Yavatmal Energy Limited, JAS Infrastructure Capital Private Limited and AMR Iron and Steel are likely to be called at its...
07:14 PM, Sep 10, 2012
New Delhi: In the latest on the coal blocks controversy, the Inter Ministerial Group (IMG) is likely to investigate as many as 31 government entities starting next week. According to sources, the IMG will look into the coal blocks allotted to the PSUs. Sources further told CNN-IBN that the group will prepare its report on 27 blocks, of which 19 have been mentioned in the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG)...
05:41 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Bangalore: With Bangalores environs getting more and more disturbed, thanks to the numerous construction works and digging activity in the name of development and drainage, there are one set of minority adventurists within and abroad, who are a worried lot. They are known as Geocachers. And their passion is to hunt for treasures hidden by people in their community, the Geocaching community. With most places seeing more and more activity,...
04:52 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Around 200 protesters on Monday were taken into custody for picketing near government offices, torching an empty college bus and pelting stones at a few vehicles during a state-wide bandh which disrupted train and road traffic and hit normal life. The bandh has been called by Congress against alleged police crackdown on partymen during a rally on September 6. More than a dozen trains were stopped at several railway...
11:54 AM, Sep 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) on coal blocks allocations will submit its report to the Coal Ministry of India on Monday as its three-day review of 29 private sector allottees, including Jindal Steel and Power and others in which relatives of politicians held positions, have concluded. "All the coal blocks on agenda for three days (September 6-8) have been reviewed," Zohra Chatterji, Additional Secretary in the Coal Ministry who...
10:44 AM, Sep 10, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Life came to a standstill in Odisha on Monday as Congress called for a statewide bandh to protest against the police action against partymen on Thursday when they protested over coalgate outside the state Assembly. According to reports, most schools and colleges are shut. Trains and other modes of public transport have been disrupted. A college bus was torched by a few protesters and a few vehicles were pelted...
09:01 AM, Sep 10, 2012
New Delhi: Key 26/11 attacks handler Abu Jundal's police custody ends on Monday and the matter is set to come up for hearing at a Mumbai court. The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) was given the custody of Jundal for their investigations into the 2006 arms haul case and the 26/11 attacks. In May 2006, the ATS chased down two vehicles on the Chandwad-Manmad Highway in Aurangabad, one of which was...
08:04 AM, Sep 10, 2012
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said Muslims are outnumbering Hindus in Assam not because of the increase in illegal migration from Bangladesh but because Muslims are illiterate and bear more children. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, the Chief Minister took full responsibility for the communal riots and said that there were multiple reasons behind it. Here is an excerpt from the interview: Speaking on Devil's Advocate with Karan...
11:07 PM, Sep 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Chairman of the National Commission for Minorities (NCM), Wajahat Habibullah on Sunday took on Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi for his remarks against Muslims in the state in an interview. Gogoi, in an interview to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, blamed illiteracy amongst Muslims for their population growth. Saying that the reason for the growth of Muslim population in the state was more local than external, the...
10:51 AM, Sep 09, 2012
