Veteran director, ex-minister Dasari Narayana Rao dies

Veteran Telugu filmmaker and former Union minister Dasari Narayana Rao, who directed superhit movies with legendary actors like N T Rama Rao and Akkineni Nageswara Rao, passed away......

CBI's action was planned, alleges tainted ex-coal minister

A day after Central Bureau of Investigation searches, former Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayana Rao, who has been accused of alleged cheating and graft by the probe agency in its fresh FIR......

'Coal loot took place under PM's nose, he looked away'

Hansraj Ahir, the man who wrote more than 15 letters to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, one of the most learned Indians, to alert him about the glaring irregularities in allotment of coal......

AP: No fireworks at Congress meeting

The emergency meeting of the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee executive, the Congress Legislature Party and Party members from the state ended on a peaceful and cordial note. No fireworks were......

Coal no longer 'essential commodity'

The government has agreed to remove coal from the list of essential commodities in the Essential Commodities Act, the Lok Sabha was informed on Thursday."The Tenth plan envisaged removing coal from......

Coal scam: Jharkhand govt went against its own recommendations

It took just 40 days for the Jharkhand government to change its mind on the allocation of the Amarkonda Murgadangal coal block. On June 20, 2007, the government had recommended to allocate 40 per......

40-mt coal shortage worries PM

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reviewed the performance of the infrastructure sectors at a ministerial meeting on Thursday and expressed concern over the 40 million-tonne coal shortage facing the......

The unholy nexus between business and politics

Earlier this month, the Central Bureau of Investigation, or CBI, registered a first information report against Naveen Jindal and Dasari Narayana Rao, the former minister of state for coal. The......