Amid Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati’s demand for inclusion of a Dalit in the Lokpal Bill drafting committee, justice Santosh Hegde said if someone from the community should be included in the panel, then it should be one of the Dalit ministers.

UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Saturday said she was greatly pained over the death of Sathya Sai Baba.
"The news of the death of Sai Baba of Puttaparthi has greatly pained me.

Former telecom minister A. Raja and two corporate honchos, who have been chargesheeted in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case, on Saturday complained to a Delhi court that documents supplied to them by the CBI were incomplete.

The Congress and the Bahujan Samaj Party are now preparing for another face-off on the Bundelkhand issue. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi will jointly address a rally in Banda district in Bundelkhand and will announce a developmental package for the region.

Director General of Civil Aviation E.K. Bharat Bhushan said on Friday that the Pawan Hans helicopter that crashed at Tawang earlier this week had the requisite certificate of air-worthiness and added that there did not seem to be anything wrong with the chopper.

After going through details of over 15,000 phone calls made in connection with the 2G spectrum scam, the CAG is likely to get access to the Department of Telecom’s answers to a questionnaire sent by various agencies investigating the 2G scam. Sources said that the CAG is likely to receive the answers on Monday. However, the senior CAG officials were not available for comments.

The Central Bureau of Investigation, which is probing several cases of corruption in the conduct of the Commonwealth Games (CWG), is likely to make significant arrests in connection with the alleged irregularities committed in awarding broadcast contract (worth `246 crores) for the Games to the UK-based SIS Live by Prasar Bharti very soon.

Hinting at social activist Anna Hazare, Congress on Friday said those who praise Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi should introspect their comments in the light of latest affidavit by an IPS officer in the Supreme Court implicating the Saffron leader in the 2002 communal riots in the state.

In the midst of allegations and accusations against Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on the 2002 communal carnage in the state, a debate is raging within the BJP to project him as the party’s prime ministerial candidate for the forthcoming general elections.

Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Friday said that she will release all political prisoners who had been arrested on false charges, after she came to power. “As soon as this (Left Front) government is dislodged from power, we will review all cases where people had been put behind bars vindictively on false charges.