Coal Gate Controversy

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  Coal-Gate: Without Naming Him, Court Asks Why Former PM Wasn't Examined

  A court in Delhi today asked the country's premier investigating agency why it had not questioned former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about the controversial and allegedly illegal allocation in 2005 of a coal block to a firm owned by billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla. Dr Singh held direct charge of the Coal Ministry at the time.

• Coal-Gate: Law Minister Ashwani Kumar called meeting, now tries to blame Attorney General

  A day after the Supreme Court's lacerating criticism of the CBI allowing the government to access its report on its coal investigation, Law Minister Ashwani Kumar, the lead player in the controversy, tried to deflect the blame.

• Coal-Gate: Supreme Court hearing tomorrow, PM Manmohan Singh meets Attorney General GE Vahanvati

  Amid a controversy that the opposition cites as grounds for his resignation, the Prime Minister met Attorney General GE Vahanvati to discuss the government's strategy on the scandal nick-named "Coal-Gate," centred around coal fields that were allocated to private firms without a transparent bidding process.

• BJP hits out at Prime Minister on coal controversy: Highlights

  The BJP continued its offensive against the government by refusing to allow the Prime Minister to speak in either of houses of Parliament on the controversy of the CAG report on coal block allocations. This forced the Dr Manmohan Singh to step out of Parliament and issue a small statement. However the media was handed out his complete statement an...

• Prime Minister's statement in Parliament on CAG report on coal block allocations: Full text

  The Prime Minister was not allowed to speak in Parliament to clarify his and the government's stand on the auditor's report on the Coal block allocations. The BJP shouted loudly, demanding his resignation, extending the strategy that it adopted all of last week to paralyze parliament. Dr Manmohan Singh then stepped out and spoke to TV cameras sayi...