Friday roundup, March 23, 2012

Indian laborers load coal onto trucks at a coal depot on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Friday, March 23, 2012. India’s scandal-plagued government lost hundreds of billions of dollars by selling coalfields to companies without competitive bidding, according to a leaked audit report that the auditor itself called misleading. Angry lawmakers blocked proceedings in Parliament on Thursday, March 22, 2012, after the findings by India’s Comptroller and Auditor General were printed by The Times of India newspaper. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

There’s a fascinating story this week out of India, summarized this way by The Associated Press:

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