Cag Report On Coal

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  Don't Look to Make Headlines, Says Finance Minister to State Auditor

  On Wednesday, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley cautioned the Comptroller and Auditor General of India or CAG not to sensationalise its findings.

• Don't Look to Make Headlines, Says Finance Minister to State Auditor

  Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday asked the CAG not to sensationalise its findings to get into headlines, a view the Congress party had voiced in the past after huge notional losses were projected in reports on 2G and coal allocation scams.

• No Comment, Says Manmohan Singh on Former CAG Vinod Rai's Criticism

  Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is sticking to his famous silence regarding former national auditor Vinod Rai's remarks on him over 2G scam and Coalgate. Asked about Mr Rai's criticism, Dr Singh today said, "I don't want to comment on what other people say".

• Congress Slams Vinod Rai, Calls His Remarks 'Latest Bout of Sensationalism'

  The Congress has hit out at former Comptroller and Auditor General of India Vinod Rai for his comments in a national daily that quotes him as saying that he was "pressured" by the UPA to drop certain names from his reports on the coal block allocation and the Commonwealth Games scam.

• The government's auditor (CAG) does not leak reports: Vinod Rai

  The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India, Vinod Rai, who retires tomorrow, dismissed charges that he was behind the leak of controversial audit reports on 2G spectrum and coal block allocations.

• Placing reports in Parliament can't be CAG's only role: Vinod Rai

  Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai, whose reports on losses from 2G spectrum and coal block allocations sparked allegations of massive corruption in the government, has said that the role of a public auditor cannot be confined to merely placing reports in Parliament.

• Police register case of forgery against Zee in Naveen Jindal extortion case

  Delhi Police has registered a case against Zee News for allegedly showing forged annexure of a CAG report on coal block allocation, a charge dismissed by the channel as a "figment of imagination, mala fide and oppressive".

• Government wants to make national auditor CAG its private agent, says Arvind Kejriwal

  The opposition and anti-corruption campaigner Arvind Kejriwal has accused the government of conspiring to undermine the office of the national auditor or CAG, whose reports on telecom and coal have led to embarrassing controversies and allegations of graft for the government.

• Examining the CAG report is not our domain, says Supreme Court

  Reiterating its position, the Supreme Court on Friday said that it cannot examine a challenge to the Comptroller and Auditor's (CAG) report.

• CAG is not a munim (accountant), says Supreme Court

  The comment was made as the judges rejected a Public Interest Litigation or PIL challenging the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on coal, which said that by allocating coal fields without transparency the government has allowed private firms to benefit by upto 1.86 lakh crores.

• Coal Ministry likely to counter CAG report tomorrow in writing

  Refuting allegations of a coal scam enabled by a weak government policy, the Coal Ministry is expected to submit its defence to a parliamentary committee on Friday.

• Congress attacks national auditor (CAG), blames it for the wasted Monsoon session of Parliament

  Escalating its attack on the Comptroller and Auditor General, the Congress on Monday virtually accused CAG Vinod Rai of working for the BJP. This was the strongest attack yet on the CAG and marks a shift of strategy by the party, which had so far been attacking the auditor on facts and figures. Party spokesperson Manish Tiwari had also said that th...

• Prime Minister's message on Monsoon Session

  We have just ended a wasted session of Parliament when both Houses were not allowed to function. The cause of the repeated disruption was that we had received a report of the CAG on the allocation of coal blocks which alleged some infirmities in the process. Instead of discussing this report in the PAC, which is the normal procedure, or even discus...

• Coal licences to be scrapped for non-performance, say sources: 10 big developments

  As the controversy over 'Coal-gate' heats up, sources have told NDTV that the licences for more than 50 coal blocks have been reviewed, and several of these could soon be cancelled. The companies who got these licences have allegedly failed to live upto their end of the deal.

• Coal controversy: Won't resign, BJP should wait till 2014, says PM

  The Prime Minister, who is on his way to Delhi from Iran, has said there is no question of resigning over the alleged "coal-gate" affair. "I have to maintain the dignity of the office of the Prime Minister," he said, when asked about his response to the BJP's unrelenting demand for him to quit. "If I were resigning, I would not be here," he said o...