Ashwani Kumar Cbi Scandal

• Coal-gate: don't share information with government, Supreme Court warns CBI

  Coal scam: The Supreme Court today made it clear that the CBI should not share any information with the government on its investigation into alleged irregularities in how coal mining licenses were issued to private companies, a scandal dubbed "Coal-gate."

• Coal scam: Supreme Court to examine CBI's status report today

  The Supreme Court will examine the status report filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on the coal scam today. The top court will also consider the Centre's affidavit on autonomy for the CBI - a directive issued by the court last month after revelations by the agency that its probe report on the coal scandal had been shared with the go...

• Sonia Gandhi meets PM as action against ministers Pawan Kumar Bansal, Ashwani Kumar imminent

  New details emerging from the CBI's investigation of a bribery scandal have made it increasingly untenable for Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal to continue in office and there is much speculation that he might resign soon.

• Congress core group meets tomorrow; decision on Pawan Kumar Bansal, Ashwani Kumar likely

  New details emerging from the CBI's investigation of a bribery scandal have made it increasingly untenable for Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal to continue in office and there is much speculation that he might resign soon.

• Action against tainted ministers: Pawan Kumar Bansal may be dropped, Ashwani Kumar shifted, say sources

  The Congress's top leadership, called the core group, will meet tomorrow to decide how to solve its problem of two ministers caught in controversy. Details now emerging fast in a CBI investigation into a bribery scandal in the Railways make the case of Rail Minister Pawan Bansal the graver matter and, sources said, a Cabinet reshuffle might be effe...

• Law Minister Ashwani Kumar attends Cabinet meet; Railway Minister Pawan Bansal skips it

  Both the Congress leaders have been smeared by scandal and there is much speculation that their continuing in the government is now untenable. But a distinction seems to be made between the two. Mr Kumar is in the dock for an act of impropriety in asking to vet a CBI report on its coal investigation before it was submitted to the Supreme Court.

• Government not asking Law and Railways Ministers to quit yet

  The Law and Railways Ministers, who have been smeared by scandal, are not being asked to quit the government yet. The Congress core group met on Sunday evening, the second time in two days, to discuss the growing calls for the ministers' resignations. Pawan Bansal and Ashwani Kumar will stay for now.

• Coal-Gate: am collateral damage, says Law Minister, to unimpressed Congress

  Law Minister Ashwani Kumar, who has led the government into a Godzilla-sized scandal, has reportedly told his party that it must defend him because he has been made "collateral damage."

• Law Minister Ashwani Kumar in trouble over CBI report

  Law Minister Ashwani Kumar, in trouble over having vetted a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) report on its coal investigation in March, has been asked by his party the Congress, to make a statement in Parliament. It is not known yet when he will do so. The Budget session of Parliament ends next week.

• Harin Raval resigns as Additional Solicitor General after Coal-Gate letter bomb

  After scripting a mega scandal for the government, Harin Raval has resigned as Additional Solicitor General. Sources say that his exit may soon be followed by that of Attorney General GE Vahanvati, who Mr Raval accuses of lying to the Supreme Court.