In a telling comment on the performance of government and growing corruption, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said at a function to commemorate Indira Gandhi's birth anniversary last month: “Our econo

Talk of a possible mid-term Lok Sabha election has begun in UPA circles as its senior leaders fear that if the stalemate between the government and the Opposition over the latter’s demand for a JPC pr

Talk of a possible mid-term Lok Sabha election has begun in UPA circles as its leaders fear that if the stalemate between the government and the Opposition over a JPC probe into the 2G spectrum scam p

Corruption seems to have become the flavour of this political season.

A guessing game has begun in the Congress about who could find place in its working committee ahead of the party plenary session in Delhi.

The battle between the government and the Opposition on the setting up of a joint parliamentary committee on the 2G spectrum allocation scam is likely to intensify further with the Opposition on Sunday rejecting outright all government suggestions on other ways to break the impasse in Parliament.

The Congress is shell-shocked by its worst ever performance, since Independence, in the Bihar Assembly polls.

The government is in a fix over the Opposition’s demand that a joint parliamentary committee be constituted to probe the 2G spectrum allocation scam. The demand has brought Parliament to a virtual standstill from day one of the Winter Session with the government neither rejecting nor accepting it even after two rounds of meetings with floor leaders.

The Opposition is planning to take this issue to the people by organising joint meetings of leaders in major cities if the government refuses to constitute a JPC. The government wants to confine this issue to the CAG report on 2G spectrum allocation while the Opposition is pressing on broadening its scope and will not mind if the government brings decisions taken on spectrum allocation during the NDA regime under the purview of a new committee.

At least three southern states — Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu — are becoming politically “unstable”.