Coalgate: Ex-coal secy, other officials sentenced to 3-yr jail term

IMAGE: Former coal secretary HC Gupta. Photograph: PTI photo A Delhi court on Wednesday sentenced former coal secretary H C Gupta to 3-year imprisonment in a coal block allocation scam case which......

Coalgate: Court to award punishment to ex-coal secy, others on Dec 5

A Delhi court on Monday reserved for December 5 its order on sentencing of former coal secretary H C Gupta, convicted in a corruption case relating to allotment of coal blocks in West Bengal during......

Coalgate: Ex-secretary, 5 others convicted

A Delhi court on Friday convicted ex-coal secretary H C Gupta in a corruption case relating to allotment of coal blocks in West Bengal during the previous United Progressive Alliance regime at the......

Ex-CBI chief attempted to influence coal scam probe, says SC panel

Former Central Bureau of Investigation Director Ranjit Sinha has been indicted by a Supreme Court-appointed panel which has held that prima facie there was an attempt to influence investigation......

Court refuses to let off Hindalco in coal block case

A court asked for further investigation into an illegal coalfield allocation case involving Hindalco Industries on Tuesday, rejecting an earlier report from the CBI that said the probe was likely......

Coalgate verdict: What affected firms have to say

The Supreme Court’s order to cancel all the 214 captive coal blocks allotments since 1993 is being described by the companies in question as a body blow.   Their chiefs say......

Commercial mining should be permitted: Former coal secretary

On a day the Supreme Court cancelled coal block allocations done through the screening committee and government dispensation routes, P C Parakh (below left), former coal secretary and author of......

Coal block auction: How govt can avoid a severe crisis

The government should give the first right of refusal in the ensuing coal mine auction to the companies which lost the blocks in the mass cancellation by the Supreme Court on Wednesday, former Coal......