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Blog: 'Source' Isn't A Dirty Word, It's How They're Handled
If we didn't have unnamed sources, would we have discovered scandals like Watergate, and the Adarsh and Coalgate scams closer home? I learnt my lesson early on in my career and then built more reliable sources in CBI and other parts of the government that I reported on. Question is, will everyone else?
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Highlights: Court To Sentence In Coal Scam Case On Saturday
A Delhi court on Thursday reserved order on sentence against ex-Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda and former coal secretary H C Gupta, convicted in a coal scam case. The sentencing will now be on Saturday. Mr Koda was convicted yesterday in the case of illegal allocation of a coal block in Jharkhand to a Kolkata-based firm.
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CBI Be Made Independent In Wake Of Coalgate Development: AAP
AAP today demanded that the matter of CBI's independence be immediately addressed by the Modi government in the wake of a Supreme Court-appointed panel indicting former CBI director Ranjit Sinha holding that prima facie there was an attempt to influence the probe into the coal block allocation scam.
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Court Orders Framing Charges Against Naveen Jindal, Others In Coal Allocation Case
A special court today ordered framing of charges against industrialist Naveen Jindal, former Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayan Rao and 13 others for criminal conspiracy, cheating and other offences in a coal block allocation scam case.
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Coal Scam: Court Dismisses Plea to Summon Ex-PM Manmohan Singh As Witness
A Special Court today rejected plea to summon former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as a defence witness by the director of a private company who is an accused in a coal scam case.
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Coal Scam: Court Grants Bail to Former Minister Santosh Bagrodia
Former Minister of State for Coal Santosh Bagrodia was today granted bail by a Special Court in connection with a coal scam case pertaining to alleged irregularities in allocation of Bander coal block in Maharashtra.
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Manmohan Singh Approved Coal Block for KSSPL: Ex-Coal Secretary
Former coal secretary H.C. Gupta today told a special court that then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gave the "final approval" for allocation of a coal block to Kamal Sponge Steel and Power Ltd (KSSPL).
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Panel Headed by ML Sharma To Begin Probe Against ex-CBI Director Ranjit Sinha
ML Sharma, former Special Director of the CBI, will head a panel to probe alleged misdemeanors by the agency's ex-director Ranjit Sinha, the Supreme Court has said.
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Coalgate: Essar Group was in Touch With Former Finance Minister Over Coal Block Allocations, NGO Alleges in Court
The Essar Group was allegedly in touch with the then Finance Minister over the issue of Group of Ministers (GoM) constituted by the erstwhile UPA government for clearances on coal allocation issues, a non-governmental organisation has said in a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court.
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'Coal Blocks Were Given Away Like Handkerchief', Says PM Narendra Modi, Slamming UPA
In a scathing attack on previous UPA government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that it had allocated coal blocks like one gives away a pen or a handkerchief, resulting in loss of lakhs of crores of rupees.
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CBI Submits Sealed Report on Former PM Manmohan Singh's Questioning in Coal Scam
The CBI has filed a sealed report in court giving details of former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's questioning about one of the cases linked to Coal-Gate, the alleged scam that saw mining rights being assigned without any transparency to private firms.
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Centre's Stand on CBI Chief Case Important, Says Supreme Court
Whether CBI director Ranjit Sinha will continue in the post may soon be decided by the Supreme Court, which today asked the Centre to submit a report that could establish a link between Mr Sinha and a controversial meat exporter investigated for tax fraud.
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CBI Shifts Officer Incharge of Probe in Coalgate Scam
The Central Bureau of Investigation CBI director, Ranjit Sinha, sent a letter to all the judges of the Supreme Court on Thursday mentioning that Joint Director OP Galhotra, a 1985 batch IPS officer, who is incharge of the probe into the coal block allocation scam would not be looking after any of the coal scam cases and Additional Director R K Dutt...
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Coal Scam: Enforcement Directorate Files Money Laundering Case Against Ex-Union Minister Dasari Narayana Rao, Naveen Jindal
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has slapped money laundering charges against former Minister of State in the Coal Ministry Dasari Narayana Rao and Congress MP Naveen Jindal in connection with its probe in the Coal blocks allocation case.
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Coal-Gate: First chargesheet today, likely against promoters of Navabharat Power Pvt Ltd
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will file the first chargesheet in the coal blocks allocation scam in a trial court in Delhi today.
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Blog: 'Source' Isn't A Dirty Word, It's How They're Handled
If we didn't have unnamed sources, would we have discovered scandals like Watergate, and the Adarsh and Coalgate scams closer home? I learnt my lesson early on in my career and then built more reliable sources in CBI and other parts of the government that I reported on. Question is, will everyone else?
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Highlights: Court To Sentence In Coal Scam Case On Saturday
A Delhi court on Thursday reserved order on sentence against ex-Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda and former coal secretary H C Gupta, convicted in a coal scam case. The sentencing will now be on Saturday. Mr Koda was convicted yesterday in the case of illegal allocation of a coal block in Jharkhand to a Kolkata-based firm.
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CBI Be Made Independent In Wake Of Coalgate Development: AAP
AAP today demanded that the matter of CBI's independence be immediately addressed by the Modi government in the wake of a Supreme Court-appointed panel indicting former CBI director Ranjit Sinha holding that prima facie there was an attempt to influence the probe into the coal block allocation scam.
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Court Orders Framing Charges Against Naveen Jindal, Others In Coal Allocation Case
A special court today ordered framing of charges against industrialist Naveen Jindal, former Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayan Rao and 13 others for criminal conspiracy, cheating and other offences in a coal block allocation scam case.
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Coal Scam: Court Dismisses Plea to Summon Ex-PM Manmohan Singh As Witness
A Special Court today rejected plea to summon former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as a defence witness by the director of a private company who is an accused in a coal scam case.
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Coal Scam: Court Grants Bail to Former Minister Santosh Bagrodia
Former Minister of State for Coal Santosh Bagrodia was today granted bail by a Special Court in connection with a coal scam case pertaining to alleged irregularities in allocation of Bander coal block in Maharashtra.
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Manmohan Singh Approved Coal Block for KSSPL: Ex-Coal Secretary
Former coal secretary H.C. Gupta today told a special court that then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gave the "final approval" for allocation of a coal block to Kamal Sponge Steel and Power Ltd (KSSPL).
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Panel Headed by ML Sharma To Begin Probe Against ex-CBI Director Ranjit Sinha
ML Sharma, former Special Director of the CBI, will head a panel to probe alleged misdemeanors by the agency's ex-director Ranjit Sinha, the Supreme Court has said.
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Coalgate: Essar Group was in Touch With Former Finance Minister Over Coal Block Allocations, NGO Alleges in Court
The Essar Group was allegedly in touch with the then Finance Minister over the issue of Group of Ministers (GoM) constituted by the erstwhile UPA government for clearances on coal allocation issues, a non-governmental organisation has said in a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court.
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'Coal Blocks Were Given Away Like Handkerchief', Says PM Narendra Modi, Slamming UPA
In a scathing attack on previous UPA government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that it had allocated coal blocks like one gives away a pen or a handkerchief, resulting in loss of lakhs of crores of rupees.
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CBI Submits Sealed Report on Former PM Manmohan Singh's Questioning in Coal Scam
The CBI has filed a sealed report in court giving details of former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's questioning about one of the cases linked to Coal-Gate, the alleged scam that saw mining rights being assigned without any transparency to private firms.
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Centre's Stand on CBI Chief Case Important, Says Supreme Court
Whether CBI director Ranjit Sinha will continue in the post may soon be decided by the Supreme Court, which today asked the Centre to submit a report that could establish a link between Mr Sinha and a controversial meat exporter investigated for tax fraud.
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CBI Shifts Officer Incharge of Probe in Coalgate Scam
The Central Bureau of Investigation CBI director, Ranjit Sinha, sent a letter to all the judges of the Supreme Court on Thursday mentioning that Joint Director OP Galhotra, a 1985 batch IPS officer, who is incharge of the probe into the coal block allocation scam would not be looking after any of the coal scam cases and Additional Director R K Dutt...
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Coal Scam: Enforcement Directorate Files Money Laundering Case Against Ex-Union Minister Dasari Narayana Rao, Naveen Jindal
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has slapped money laundering charges against former Minister of State in the Coal Ministry Dasari Narayana Rao and Congress MP Naveen Jindal in connection with its probe in the Coal blocks allocation case.
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Coal-Gate: First chargesheet today, likely against promoters of Navabharat Power Pvt Ltd
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will file the first chargesheet in the coal blocks allocation scam in a trial court in Delhi today.
