Former NALCO chairman & MD Abhay Srivastava, his former colleague BL Bajaj & their wives were convicted in money laundering case stemming from a 2011 bribery case.
5 yrs after approving CBI request to prosecute KC Samria in 4 cases, DoPT backtracked on 5 others after learning KC Samria wasn’t in the coal allocation section when companies applied.
Probe agency accuses multiple Congress leaders & state officials of being involved in two syndicates that extorted money from coal transporters and through illegal liquor supply.
The 2010-13 season of scandal-mongering still casts a shadow on Indian politics, and the victims are those at the lowest end of the decision-making chain.
Former coal secretary H.C. Gupta, a 1971-batch IAS officer, was this week given 3-year jail term in the latest among a string of ‘Coalgate' cases dating back to UPA era.
As state opposition alleges involvement of more police officers in case, Trinamool announces state-wide protests Friday claiming central agencies targeting opposition-led states.
A scheme guaranteeing subsidised coal for MSMEs was formulated in 2007-08 under the Manmohan Singh govt. Its implementation in Gujarat has spawned allegations of corruption.
Top politicians like Mamata’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee have been grilled in connection with the coal mining scam. At the centre of it is a man called Anup Maji.
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee slams BJP for summons to her nephew in ED's coal scam probe, comments come on a day Congress decides to not field candidate in Bhabanipur bypoll.
For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
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