The CBI, probing the 2G spectrum scam, on Tuesday questioned seven top officials of different private telecom companies and confronted them with the documents seized by the agency during its searches. Some of the representatives of the telecom companies were also confronted with former telecom minister A. Raja and Shahid Usman Balwa, promoter of Swan Telecom (now Etisalat-DB Telecom Private Limited). More arrests are likely in a day or two.

The Union Cabinet on Tuesday cleared the President’s speech, which will be delivered at the joint session of Parliament on the first day of the Budget Session. The speech is likely to set the government’s agenda and intent on how to tackle corruption.

In the season of scams for UPA-II, which has left the government in deeply troubled waters and fingers being pointed even at the PMO, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has decided to hold a press conference in the capital on Wednesday. He will be addressing editors belonging to the electronic media and undoubtedly be hoping to clear the air on the various scams it has found itself embroiled into.

While the Left has decided to raise the issue of railway safety to fix the Trinamul Congress chief and railway minister Mamata Banerjee during the Budget Session of Parliament, the AIADMK will intensify its attack on the UPA ally, the DMK, on the 2G spectrum scam. The main Opposition BJP plans to demand a discussion on corruption in Parliament.

Public Accounts Committee chairman, Murli Manohar Joshi is apparently not satisfied with the response to his letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar complaining against telecom minister Kapil Sibal for rubbishing the CAG report on 2G spectrum allocation issue.

Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan has decided to contest the state Legislative Council elections. Mr Chavan, who is currently the Rajya Sabha Member, wanted to contest an Assembly byelection from his home turf in Karad if someone in the Congress vacates his seat for him.

Intending to give fillip to the efforts made by the state government, the planning commission on Tuesday agreed to give a substantial 20 percent hike to Bihar’s annual plan outlay to `24,000 crore for 2011-12.

Paving the way for the trial of suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorist Shahzad Ahmed, allegedly involved in a gunbattle with a Delhi police team at Batla House in 2008, a Delhi court has framed charges against him under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) including murder and attempt to murder.

A businessman has been arrested by southwest Delhi police for allegedly killing his four-year-old son in an apparent bid to implicate his friends from whom he had borrowed money to the tune of `1.5 lakhs.

A new-born girl child’s body was found in toilet inside a train at Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station on Tuesday evening.
The police said the body was recovered from a toilet on Utkal Express after it chugged into the station at 7 pm. A passenger noticed the body and alerted rail officials