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Sep 14, 2012 ‘Diesel price hike a fallout of scams’: "it a deliberate punishment to the citizens of the country for raising their voice against the Congress party for looting the exchequer through multi-crore scams."
Sep 14, 2012 Coalgate: Action against small players in a big scam?: "Government on Thursday accepted the Inter-Ministerial Group's recommendations to cancel allocations to 4 companies for 8 coal blocks."
Sep 14, 2012 Jaiswal, Sahai to be sacked?: "After the Coal Minister admissed his links to mining baron Manoj Jayaswal, the government is now preparing tself for a Cabinet reshuffle. Sources tell TIMES NOW that Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal and Tourism Minister Subodh Kant Sahai will not be retained post the reshuffle."
Sep 14, 2012 Direct: Sri Prakash Jaiswal: "Union Coal Minister Sri Prakash Jaiswal, speaks exclusively to TIMES NOW's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami on the Newshour Direct and takes direct questions on his relationship with mining baron Manoj Jayswal whose companies were found to be among those named in the CBI's FIR on Coalgate."
Sep 14, 2012 Coalgate: The Jaiswal-Jayaswal link: "TIMES NOW has accessed fresh documents which prove the link between Coal Minister Sri Prakash Jaiswal and mining baron Manoj Jayswal. Initially, the Coal Minister had distanced himself from Manoj, but evidence with the TIMES NOW forced him to admit that he has been named as an arbitrator by Manoj. But the defiant minister says that the explosive documents are utter trash."
Sep 14, 2012 Narendra Modi calls Congress 'coal thief': "The Gujarat Chief Minister said the AICC means All India Coal Congress."
Sep 14, 2012 Kalmadi cannot contest IOA chief election: HC: "The court has ordered the IOA polls to be held on the basis of the sports code that doesn't allow more than three terms for the IOA chief."
Sep 12, 2012 Wikipedia: Indian Coal Allocation Scam
Sep 12, 2012 Mulayam dubs Congress as scam-tainted: "Every day a new scam unfolds."
Sep 12, 2012 HC order highlights scam in Haryana jobs: "quashing the recruitment of 1983 physical training instructors in schools"
Sep 12, 2012 देखिए कोयला घोटाले का सबसे बड़ा सच...: "आजतक के हाथ लगी है सीबीआई की एफआईआर. इस एफआईआर के मुताबिक, कोल ब्लॉक के आवंटन में दर्डा और उनकी कंपनियों ने झूठ और फर्जी दस्तावेजों का सहारा लिया. सबसे चौंकानेवाली बात तो यह है कि तत्कालीन कोयला राज्यमंत्री संतोष बागरोड़िया को इन सबके बारे में पता था, फिर भी उन्होंने कोयला खदान का आवंटन इन्हें होने दिया."
Sep 12, 2012 Coalgate: Another Jindal company under scanner: "Congress MP Naveen Jindal has claimed that he has nothing to do with the company that was served a notice."
Sep 12, 2012 Coal controller says de-allocate Jindal's block: "The coal controller report recommends the IMG to de-allocate coal blocks to Jindal Steel and Bhushan Steel."
Sep 12, 2012 Coalgate: Criminal proceedings underway, probe gathers pace: "The coal controller report recommended the Inter Ministerial Group (IMG) to de-allocate coal blocks to Jindal Steel and Bhushan Steel."
Sep 12, 2012 FTN: Are benami transactions bedrock of electoral politics?: "An exhaustive survey done by association for democratic reforms which shows how political parties are consistently increasing their wealth."
Sep 12, 2012 Can drawing a cartoon be seen as an anti-national act?: "Cartoonist Aseem Trivedi refuses bail till the sedition law is repealed, sent to jail till the September 24."
Sep 12, 2012 Watch: IAC members try to storm Scindia's meet: "The IAC members were denied intro into the venue of Jyotiraditya Scindia's press conference, following which they shouted slogans."
Sep 11, 2012 The Vancouver Sun: Political cartoonist who criticized Indian gov't corruption jailed in sedition investigation
Sep 10, 2012 Ex-coal minister Bagrodia’s brother got hefty mining contract: "PSU power giant National Thermal Power Corporation awarded a coal mine contract worth over Rs 23,000 crore to a joint venture company in which 10% shares are held by the family of former coal minister Santosh Bagrodia."
Sep 10, 2012 Pressure on Naveen Jindal grows: "The government auditor CAG in its recent report statedthat undue benefits to the tune of Rs 1.86 lakh crore were extended to private firms on account of allocation of 57 mines to them without auction."
Sep 9, 2012 A Raja is still telecom minister, says DoT website: "A Raja, the disgraced DMK member of Parliament, may have been divested of the communications portfolio as far back as November 2010 and spent more than a year -- from February 2011 to May 2012 -- in jail for his role in the infamous 2G spectrum scam. He may have been out on bail since May 2012. His trusted aide and personal assistant, RK Chandolia, too may have spent time in jail at the same time for having been hand in glove with him. By any yardstick, the duo should be persona non grata in anything to do with the government, but not with the department that they brought infamy to."
Sep 9, 2012 Textbook case of crony capitalism: "Mail Today has been at the forefront of cracking the code on the Manoj Jayaswal-Darda extended family working in cahoots to grab coal blocks"
Sep 9, 2012  Hyde And Seek Dabbu-dabbu-dabbu. That’s Hyderabad talk for how the city’s become the scam capital.: "going by the number of VIPs currently lodged in Chanchalguda jail in Hyderabad, the joke is the police will soon be placing orders for gilded plates of biriyani. There are at least 10 “special” prisoners, all accused in various scams—Jaganmohan Reddy, of course, remains the star visitor, followed closely by industrialists, bureaucrats, a former minister and now judges as well."
Sep 9, 2012 जेल में हैं तो क्या हुआ, हम वीआईपी हैं...: "वकीलों ने उन्हें अदालत से विशेष कैदी का दर्जा दिलवाया है जिसके चलते वो अलग कमरों में मनपसंद खाना बनवाने की सुविधा सहित रहते हैं, मानो अपने घर में हों."
Sep 9, 2012 CBI probe points to criminal conspiracy by Coal Ministry officials: "a criminal conspiracy hatched by Coal Ministry officials along with certain functionaries of the Power Ministry and State governments in accepting and pursuing forged documents from tainted companies, including that of Congress MP Vijay Darda-linked JLD Yavatmal Energy Limited, for fraudulent allocation of coal blocks."
Sep 7, 2012 Ministers’ kin landing coal blocks adds to UPA woes: "Documents show that besides the kin of Union tourism minister Subodh Kant Sahai and Congress MP Vijay Darda, relatives of Union minister of state Jagatrakshakan (of the DMK) and RJD's Prem Gupta, corporate affairs minister in UPA-1, were also allotted coal blocks"
Sep 7, 2012 PSU promised TN mantri’s firm coal at Rs 25 per tonne: "The state-owned Puducherry Industrial Promotion Development Corporation (PIPDIC) entered into a memorandum of understanding with J R Power Gen Private Limited, owned by Union minister S Jagathrakshakan's family, to sell coal at a throwaway price of Rs 25 per tonne even before it was allotted a coal block"
Sep 7, 2012 Explained: All you wanted to know about the coal scam: "Between 1993 and 2011, the government of India gave away 206 coal blocks for free to government and private companies."
Sep 7, 2012 Plugging the Leaks: "How to shield your investments from insider-trading scams"
Sep 7, 2012 One Bofors got Rajiv. But will UPA’s bag of scams hurt Cong?
Sep 7, 2012 BJP CMs involved in coal scam: Hariprasad: "alleged that the Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh were involved in the coal block allocation scams."
Sep 7, 2012 Orchestrated scam in merchant power projects, captive coal blocks and PSU bank loans?: "There seemed to be an orchestrated move towards benefitting a few influential private companies backed by individuals to exploit land and coal resources with the help of the public moneys raised by PSU banks, alleged EAS Sarma, the former secretary with the GoI"
Sep 7, 2012 Sunanda K Datta-Ray: City of dreadful scams: "Both were worrying long before the CNNGo finding that Delhi is the world’s third worst “scam city” and “full of cons”."
Sep 7, 2012 Coalgate: Whole world is discussing your corrupt practices, BJP tells PM Manmohan Singh: ""Tere Bhrashtachar ke charche har zubaan par, sabko maalum hai, aur sabko khabar ho gayi"."
Sep 7, 2012 Cash-for-bail scam: Second chargesheet filed by Anti-Corruption Bureau: "The Andhra Pradesh Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) today filed a second chargesheet in the cash-for-bail scam case against seven persons including former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, two Karnataka MLAs and two suspended judges."
Sep 7, 2012 PM's involvement proved: Jaitley: "Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley, on Friday (September 7) spoke exclusively to TIMES NOW, and said the Prime Minister's direct involvement in the decision making has been proved and the new revelations will take the scandal to the next level."
Sep 7, 2012 One month, 5 explosive disclosures: "We began with exposing the delay in the tabling the CAG report in Parliament, and then went to the root on Coalgate, bringing you the screening commitee papers. The more we investigated, the deeper the links of nepotism and impropreity ran. And today, TIMES NOW brings you the biggest expose on Coalgate- the PMO internal note."
Sep 6, 2012 After inaction, an outrageous defence: ""Just because the whole country says trip must be cancelled. It cannot be cancelled." If the inaction wasn't infuriating enough, there now comes this outrageous justification for the Karnataka Government's refusal to act."
Sep 6, 2012 Gadkari aide was alloted a coal block: Jairam Ramesh: "Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has now dragged BJP president Nitin Gadkari into the coal block allocation scam."
Sep 6, 2012 Question over DMK's Jagathrakshakan: "Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting & DMK leader, S Jagathrakshkan, is in the dock over Coalgate. TIMES NOW exposes the central minister's link to coal block allocations. The minister is alleged to have helped his company get coal block allocations in Odisha."
Sep 6, 2012 Coalgate: Norm violated by govt to favour Jindal: "Documents show how Congress MP Naveen Jindal was given a coal block while the government Navratna Coal India Ltd was refused."
Sep 6, 2012 CAG nails power mess, loss up to Rs 14,000 crore: "According to the CAG, due to the inefficiency of the NHPC, only two of 16 planned projects have been completed."
Sep 6, 2012 The Washington Post: India’s ‘silent’ prime minister becomes a tragic figure: "Attendees at meetings and conferences were jokingly urged to put their phones into “Manmohan Singh mode,” while one joke cited a dentist urging the seated prime minister, “At least in my clinic, please open your mouth.”"
Sep 5, 2012 Ministry delaying action on coal de-allocation: "According to documents accessed by CNN-IBN, the Coal Ministry found reasons for not acting on it for eight months."
Sep 5, 2012 US paper calls Manmohan Singh a 'tragic figure': "Taking a potshot at the PM, the Opposition said that Manmohan Singh's image has demolished badly."
Sep 5, 2012 Shettar pulls up MLAs holidaying abroad: "Jagadish Shettar has asked a dozen legislators who were holidaying abroad to return home immediately."
Sep 5, 2012 Cong MP named in coal FIR, denies charges: "In its FIR on JLD Yavatmal Energy Limited, CBI has named Darda along with his son Devendra."
Sep 5, 2012 नाकाम प्रधानमंत्री कहलाए जाएँगे मनमोहन?: "ये छवि है एक ऐसे प्रभावहीन नौकरशाह की जो भ्रष्टाचार से डूबी सरकार का नेतृत्व कर रहा है."
Sep 5, 2012 Washington Post calls Manmohan as a 'tragic figure': "Even as the Time magazine termed him as an ‘underachiever’, the Washington Post targeted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday quoting his dramatic fall from grace in his second term in the office following the slow but steady tarnishing of his reputation. The magazine further quoted “the image of the scrupulously honorable, humble and intellectual technocrat has slowly given way to a completely different one: a dithering, ineffectual bureaucrat presiding over a deeply corrupt government.”"
Sep 5, 2012 Government to seek apology from Washington Post for calling Manmohan a 'tragic figure': "US daily that published an article calling Prime Minister Manmohan Singh a "tragic figure".", "He has been described as "a dithering, ineffectual bureaucrat presiding over a deeply corrupt government"."
Sep 5, 2012 CVC examining ex-IA chief's letter alleging scam in civil aviation ministry: "the former chairman-and-managing director of Indian Airlines, to the then cabinet secretary alleging that the national carrier was arm-twisted into taking several decisions that led to the financial crisis in the company."
Sep 4, 2012 CM comes clean on 'corrupt' colleagues: "Seven out of 15 politicians, who served as ministers and were chargesheeted for corruption, have been acquitted during the past 12 years"
Sep 4, 2012 CBI raids Cong, BJP-linked firms, files 5 coal FIRs: "The CBI conducted raids at 30 locations in 11 cities, including Nagpur, Kolkata, Bhilai, Ranchi, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Delhi-NCR"
Sep 4, 2012 TN: Court to hear bail plea of Alagiri's son: "The police had issued a look out notice against him and several others for their alleged roles in the multi-crore granite mining scam."
Sep 4, 2012 Now Cong MP linked to Coalgate: "The CBI today carried out raids in 30 locations across the country after filing cases against five companies for alleged criminal conspiracy to get coal blocks by fudging their net worth figures and misrepresentation of facts and named Congress MP Vijay Darda in one of the FIRs."
Sep 4, 2012 Mining baron's cos named in CBI FIR: "There are shockwaves after mining baron Manoj Jaiswal's companies were found to be among those named in the CBI FIR on Coalgate today (September 4). However, the Coal Minister Shriprakash Jaiswal distanced himself from Manoj Jaiswal after CBI filed the FIR."
Sep 4, 2012 Karnataka CM cancels MLAs' study tour: "Facing public outcry over legislators undertaking a foreign trip when the state is hit by drought, Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar today ordered the cancellation of an overseas "study" tour by a legislature committee and asked them to return."
Sep 4, 2012 Coalgate CBI raids: The big questions: "CBI raids were on at 31 locations in 10 cities including Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Hyderabad."
Sep 4, 2012 Coalgate: Mining firms with Cong, BJP links raided: "CBI raids were on at 30 locations in ten cities including Kolkata, Patna, Hyderabad, Dhanbad, Nagpur and Mumbai."
Sep 4, 2012 Coalgate: CBI files FIR against five companies: "CBI raids were on at 30 locations in ten cities including Kolkata, Patna, Hyderabad, Dhanbad, Nagpur, Mumbai and Delhi."
Sep 4, 2012 Coalgate: Who was the real beneficiary?: "In the battle between the UPA and the BJP, the role of the private companies who misused their coal allotments has been lost."
Sep 4, 2012 BBC: 'Coalgate' row: India police raid coal firms: "Government officials and company employees are also under investigation. State auditors say India lost $33bn (£20bn) allotting coalfields at below market rates in the years up to 2009."
Sep 4, 2012 Akhilesh govt transfers over 400 engineers on party leaders’ orders: "In a move considered unprecedented even by the political benchmarks of Uttar Pradesh, more than 400 junior engineers in the state’s Public Works Department were transferred last month in violation of the Akhilesh Yadav government’s new transfer policy, a majority of them on the recommendation of Samajwadi Party politicians."
Sep 4, 2012 CBI names Cong MP Vijay Darda in coal FIRs: "The Central Bureau of Investigation Tuesday filed its first set of cases in the coal blocks allotment scandal, accusing Congress MP Vijay Darda and his brother Rajendra Darda, who is a minister in Maharashtra, among others, of criminal conspiracy, cheating and misrepresentation of facts."
Sep 3, 2012 Coal Scam Blackening Country's Face: Modi
Sep 3, 2012 Why was the delay for 5 years?: "TIMES NOW unearths former MoS Coal Dasari Naryana Rao's reply in the Lok Sabha in 2007, revealing how the government had rejected the state government's objections against the allocation procedure in 2007. It has raised fresh questions on the Coal Ministry's role and the reasons for the delay."
Sep 3, 2012 Two ex-ministers convicted in corruption cases in Odisha: CM: "Two former ministers have been convicted in disproportionate assets and corruption cases during last 12 years in Odisha even as the anti-corruption vigilance wing filed chargesheets against 13 ex-ministers and incumbent panchayati raj minister."
Sep 3, 2012 Tango dances vs drought hit citizens: "After TIMES NOW exposed that the Karnataka MLAs' 'study trip' to South America is nothing but an all expense-paid holiday funded by the tax payers' money, the chorus has grown to call back the MLAs from their trip."
Sep 3, 2012 देश की मुंह पर कालिख पोत रहा कोयला घोटाला: मोदी
Sep 3, 2012 TIMES NOW accesses original coal note: "Eight years back, a 6-page note written by the Coal Secretary to the Minister had called for competitive bidding, warning the government of windfall gains to private companies, lack of transperancy and objectivity in the allocation process. It also mentioned that the process could lead to different kinds of pressure in allocation of the blocks."
Sep 2, 2012 Coal scam: UPA govt is a national security risk, says Yashwant Sinha
Sep 2, 2012 BJP calls Congress multinational company of scams: ""The history-sheeter party of corruption, is now converted into a multi national company of Scams" whose chairperson is Sonia Gandhi and the CEO is Manmohan Singh."
Sep 2, 2012 Bangalore Mayor, wife 'landless labourers': "The duo were implicated in a land scam after they filed false affidavits to get 8 acres of govt land meant for landless workers."
Sep 2, 2012 Subodh Kant Sahai remains defiant: "Tourism minister Subodh Kant Sahai has been exposed repeatedly by TIMES NOW over the 'coalgate' scam, but he remains defiant"
Sep 2, 2012 Documents nail Alagiri's son: "how son of Union Minister MK Alagiri, Durai Dhayanidhi Alagiri, is involved in a 16,000 Cr illegal quarrying scam."
Sep 2, 2012 Clash outside Jaiswal's residence: "At least a dozen activists of BJP and Congress were on Sunday (September 2) injured in a clash which broke out during the main opposition party's protest outside Union Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal's residence here over the coal block allocation issue."
Sep 2, 2012 ‘Neither BJP nor Congress wants a discussion (on coal allocation). Because many skeletons from many cupboards are going to tumble out’
Sep 2, 2012 Manmohan first PM who is 'proud of his silence': Swaraj: "The BJP leader demanded that Singh should clarify why some of the 'biggest scams since Independence' like the financial irregularities in Commonwealth Games projects, 2G spectrum allocation, land scam in the airport privatisation and the alleged irregularities in coal block allocation have happened with "alarming regularity" during his Prime Ministership."
Sep 2, 2012 MLAs study tour excuse exposed: "Seen here are Karnataka MLAs enjoying the splendors of the Argentinean Presidential Palace and posing outside the gigantic may pyramid along with family members like any tourist would. The bus load of 14 MLAs of drought stricken Karnataka along with their family members are spending their first day in Buenos Aries visiting all the prominent tourist destinations in the City."
Sep 1, 2012 Coalgate: BJP plans Bofors-like campaign
Sep 1, 2012 PM Directly Responsible for Coal Scam: Jaitley
Sep 1, 2012 Public-Private Perplexity: "Touted as a panacea for all ills in infrastructure projects, many PPPs are now being questioned for scam potential"
Sep 1, 2012 Excl: 58 coal blocks under scanner: "the Government is adamant on defending the allocation of 142 coal blocks, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) says led to a presumptive loss of Rs 1.86 lakh crore even boasting of the policy adopted."
Aug 31, 2012 Cong Alleges Scam in Coal Mine Allocation in Chhattisgarh
Aug 31, 2012 India to USA: 'Coal-Gate' is Everywhere: "A $33 billion 'Coal-Gate' scandal is rocking the Indian government. This 'mother of all scams' created a windfall for private developers who secured public resources at rock bottom prices."
Aug 31, 2012 Trouble for Alagiri's son: "A lookout notice has been issued against Union Minister MK Alagiri's son, Durai Dhayanidhi Alagiri, for his alleged involvement in a multi-crore granite mining scam. TIMES NOW has accessed the initial probe report into what is estimated to be a Rs. 16000 crore scam, clearly showing that one such company that was allegedly drawing benefits from the illegal mining was headed by Alagiri's son till 2010."
Aug 31, 2012 Will Sahai resign on propriety?: "A day after Tourism Minister Subodh Kant Sahai was forced to admit that he infact lobbied for his brother with the Prime Minister for coal block allocation"
Aug 30, 2012 Another Day, Another Scam: How the CAG Report Impacts India's Overall Outlook
Aug 30, 2012 Coalgate: Who is Sudhir K Sahay?: "TIMES NOW reveal a mystery man who attended Coal screening committee meetings as a SKS director. Who is Sudhir K Sahay and why was he part of meetings where coal block allocations were being decided?"
Aug 30, 2012 Coalgate: People with Cong, BJP links got mines: "Details of the first FIR to be filed by the CBI show how those with political connections were favoured in the coal mine allocations."
Aug 30, 2012 Coalgate: '25 firms under scanner': "a number of private firms and government officials are likely to be named in the FIR. According to the CBI source, the agency found irregularities in nearly 25 companies. CBI sources confirmed that steel and cement ministries too are under scanner."
Aug 30, 2012 Congress treasurer lobbied with BJP CM?: "In the first clear indication that the Congress and BJP actually co-operated on these questionable allotments we reveal the letter written by Congress's national treasurer Motilal Vora to the BJP chief minister in Chhattisgarh, Raman Singh."
Aug 30, 2012 FTN: A classroom on coal scam: "The CAG in its report on coal blocks allocation had suggested that there was a lost of Rs 1.86 lakh crore due to lack of bidding."
Aug 30, 2012 The Last Word: Could the CAG report on coal develop into a bofors?: "With the paralysis in Parliament, could the CAG report on an alleged coal scam develop into a second bofors?"
Aug 30, 2012 Reddy brothers paid huge bribe to BJP: Lalu: "Most of the mines owned by Reddy’s are in Andhra Pradesh."
Aug 30, 2012 Why Coal Minister Jaiswal’s heart isn’t in auctions: "If politics is the last refuge of the scoundrel, consumer interest is the last justification for flawed policies."
Aug 30, 2012 BJP's fresh salvo, takes on Tourism Minister: "alleged that Prime Minister's Office had favoured Union Minister Subodh Kant Sahay by allotting two coal blocks on his request to a company."
Aug 30, 2012 Coalgate: How PMO cut red tape to favour minister: "Crony capitalism in the coal block allocations was not limited to private companies with right connections only, it extended to at least one of the ministers of the government."
Aug 30, 2012 Coalgate: The screening commitee papers: "TIMES NOW has unearthed more startling revelations on the 1.86 lakh crore scam. Documents of the screening committee meetings on coal block allocations from 2003 to 2008 in exclusive possession of TIMES NOW raise a number of questions."
Aug 30, 2012 BJP alleges PMO favoured Sahay on coal blocks allotment: "BJP today alleged that Prime Minister's Office had favoured Union Minister Subodh Kant Sahay by allotting two coal blocks on his request to a company."

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