Uncertainties grip the forthcoming Budget Session as the Opposition led by the BJP appears to be in no mood to relent over its demand for a JPC probe in the 2G scam. Speaking exclusively to this newspaper, Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and BJP’s master strategist, Mr Arun Jaitley, made it categorically clear that there

With reports pouring in of the CPI(M) arming its cadres, speculation is rife that a section of Marxists leaders in West Bengal are forcing the state administration to set up a unit along the lines of the state-sponsored salwa judum in Chhattisgarh. The Union home ministry has been informed that 95 camps of armed Marxists cadres have already been set up in West Midnapore.

It’s been over three decades that the reds have been ruling West Bengal. In any democracy, such a long stint in power for any political outfit is unprecedented. Since 1977, West Bengal has been a Marxist citadel. Challenging the red dragon on its own turf is Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee. If things go as predicted by

Mounting pressure on the UPA, a Trinamul Congress delegation that including ministers, MPs and MLAs on Thursday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and demanded the immediate withdrawal of Central security forces from West Bengal.

When the leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Mr Arun Jaitley takes a pot shot at the Prime Minister, ‘Dr Manmohan Singh by saying he is “losing the will to rule ” there is a subliminal message h

Time might be running out for Congress MP and CWG Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi, who was snubbed by both President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday.

It’s the big fat wedding in the BJP.

It now transpires that while the CPI(M) has been shouting itself hoarse over the Nira Radia tapes, demanding an investigation into “crony capitalism” and the “politician-bureaucrat-media nexus”, its own government in West Bengal had been dealing with Ms Radia’s public relations and lobbying outfit Vaishnavi Corporate Communi-cations.

The unprecedented electoral victory of the JD(U) in association with its BJP ally is certain to boost the national profile of Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar.

Even before the Karnataka crisis can die down, the BJP has been hit by another crisis in Uttarakhand. Top Uttarakhand saffron leaders and functionaries are now demanding the immediate removal of chief minister Ramesh Pokhriya Nishank, who is mired in a spate of scandals.