The National Election Watch has said that several companies make political donations, which makes it necessary to probe if the donations have led to any favours. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
Manmohan said he will get a chance to put forward his case with all the facts and expressed confidence that the truth will prevail.
Natural calamities, breakdown in law and order, bandh calls, coal scam and attacks on journalists and media houses marked the year 2012 in Arunachal Pradesh.
Banerjee, the 34-year-old nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, is stated to have sent an email to the investigating officer of the case citing some personal reasons for his non-appearance.
Corrective action on the coal scam must not be such as to impose further obstructions to production of coal from the blocks allotted.
The Communist Party of Indi today demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reply to charges of irregularities in allocation of coal blocks instead of evading an answer over the issue.
Additional Solicitor General Harin Rawal, in a tersely-written letter to his boss and Attorney General G E Vahanvati, accusing him of messy handling of the CBI in the coal scam investigation, and sparking speculation that the latter may recuse himself from the case. Sheela Bhatt reports.
Even as the government prepared the ground for a fruitful session by reaching out to main opposition BJP on the Land Acquisition Bill, new disclosures in the media might play a spoiler for it.
The agency had in October arrested Sameer Vishnoi, an IAS officer of the state, and two others, after conducting several raids in the case.
The Supreme Court will on Monday examine allegations that Central Bureau of Investigation Director Ranjit Sinha compromised investigations into the spectrum and coal scams.
With the case of missing files into the coal block allocation turning murkier, the CBI is mulling filing FIR on the issue for which officials of the agency and the coal ministry are likely to meet soon.
Senior Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Friday said he will participate in the party's protest programme in New Delhi on October 3, a day after he was summoned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for questioning in connection with the school jobs scam in Kolkata on the same day.
Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Thursday demanded resignation of Nitin Gadkari as Bharatiya Janata Party President in the wake of a letter written by him to Centre seeking release of funds for an irrigation project in Maharashtra, in which an associate of his is said to be a contractor.
Under attack for sharing the Central Bureau of Investigation probe report on coal blocks allocation scam with the government, agency Director Ranjit Sinha on Tuesday admitted that changes were made in the draft report and he has given full details of this to the Supreme Court.
The Bharatiya Janata Party would vocally raise coal scam, the alleged misuse of the Central Bureau of Investigation and Intelligence Bureau, among other issues during the winter session of Parliament beginning Thursday, senior party leader M Venkaiah Naidu said on Tuesday.
Zee News on Tuesday demanded the immediate release of its two senior journalists arrested in an extortion case filed by Congress MP Naveen Jindal, alleging that the police action was "illegal" and "designed for something else".
Two senior journalists of Zee news channel were arrested in New Delhi on Tuesday on charges of trying to extort Rs 100 crore from Congress MP Naveen Jindal's group for not doing news reports on coal scam linking his firm.
Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday registered a fresh case against a Nagpur-based company for alleged irregularities in the allocation of coal block during the NDA regime in 2003.
Mulayam Singh's bid to get a third front on his side is to get into a position where he can barter for the prime minister's job with the support of either the BJP or the Congress, says Seema Mustafa.
Stepping up attack after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh rejected CAG's observations on coal block allocation, BJP on Monday alleged that he was directly responsible for causing delay in amending laws on auction with the aim of bringing financial benefit to Congress.
Polling is scheduled in all 13 seats of Punjab and four of Himachal Pradesh, 13 constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, nine in West Bengal, eight in Bihar, six in Odisha and three seats in Jharkhand besides Chandigarh.
The Bharatiya Janata Partuy on Monday decided to aggressively demand the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the Comptroller and Auditor General report on the allocation of coal blocks and stall both Houses of Parliament on the issue on Tuesday.
The Central Bureau of Investigation may record statement of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's advisor T K A Nair in the coal block allocation scam though the agency denied any such move officially.
The Supreme Court Wednesday said the new system of mentioning cases for urgent hearing before apex court officials instead of its benches directly has been put in place to ensure that senior lawyers are not given "special priority" over their junior colleagues.
CBI sleuths conducted raids at three houses of Ghatak in Asansol in Paschim Bardhaman district and one in Lake Gardens area of Kolkata.
Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday registered two enquiries to look into the issue of missing files on coal block allocations from the Coal Ministry.
A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha allowed Banerjee to avail available remedies under the law but refused to interfere with the May 18 order of the Calcutta high court.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday alleged that Congress is "defending the indefensible" in Coalgate and posed seven questions on the reported anomalies in coal blocks allocations, claiming each allotment has the "stamp of approval" by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Kejriwal and others had held a demonstration against coal scam in front of the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's house in 2012.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday said it will continue to mount pressure to demand resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the government on the issue of CAG report on coal block allocation, in an indication that Parliament is likely to be stalled for the second successive day.
The police on Thursday claimed to have gathered some key evidence in the Mehrauli murder case, saying the DNA samples extracted from the bones recovered from a forest area and from the blood traces found at the house where Shraddha Walkar was murdered have matched with samples of her father.
Recent spate of scams like Satyam, 2G and coal allocation scam to name a few have robbed retail investors of the confidence to invest continually.
If the PM had just chosen to behave as if there wasn't anything wrong about existing systems, he wouldn't have been in such trouble today, says Mihir S Sharma
Central Bureau of Investigation has booked former Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayan Rao and Congress MP and industrialist Naveen Jindal for alleged cheating, graft and criminal misconduct in its 12th FIR in the coal blocks allocation scam, causing embarrassment to the ruling Congress.
Stepping up pressure, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday demanded Prime Minister Manmohan's Singh resignation after the Centre admitted before the Supreme Court that something went wrong with coal blocks allocations.
The Supreme Court, which is hearing Central Burea of Investigation director's affidavit in the coal scam on Tuesday, observed that a massive breach of trust has taken place in sharing of information with the executive, which has shaken the entire process.
Members of the civil society including former chief election commissioner N Gopalaswami, ex-navy chief L Ramdas and former cabinet secretary T S R Subramanian on Thursday approached the Supreme Court seeking a court-monitored Special Investigation Team probe into the coal block allocation scam.
The Congress on Friday alleged that the electoral bonds data has exposed 'corrupt tactics' of the Bharatiya Janata Party such as quid pro quo, seeking donations for the company's protection, kickbacks and money laundering through shell companies.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday said a letter to Team Anna on the coal mining issue is not the need of the hour and the government should order a full-fledged probe into the scam to bring out the truth. "We feel that just a letter from the PMO to Team Anna on Coalgate is not enough. A thorough probe is required. Even when the 2G spectrum scam took place, the PMO and Cabinet ministers said there was zero loss," BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain said.
In a swift operation, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday arrested its own Superintendent of Police, who was heading the Coalgate probe team, and an inspector for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 7 lakh from a businessman outside its headquarters in New Delhi to settle a land dispute.
© 2026 Rediff.com - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Sitemap - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances