Speculations about Cabinet reshuffle has begun in the Congress circles following a meeting between the party chief Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday. Though, highly-placed sources made it clear that they have no idea about it, insiders said Cabinet reshuffle will take place before Mrs Gandhi reconstitute her team in the AICC and nominate members to the working committee.

The CBI is set to register an FIR to probe the role of certain officials of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) who allegedly signed bank loan papers of some private telecom companies, who were in the race of 2G allotment, in connection with its probe into the allocation of unified access service licences.

The CBI, which is investigating various cases of alleged corruption in the conduct of the Commonwealth games (CWG), is likely to question chairman of the Organising Committee (OC) Mr Suresh Kalmadi again on Monday.

Insisting that the health of every institution in the country is at stake in the light leaked Niira Radia tapes, senior BJP leader and leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley has said, only a JPC probe can unravel the various facets of alleged 2G spectrum allocation scam, including the “role of power brokers” in allocation of telecom portfolio.

The Indian corporate remains unconvinced about Clean Development mechanisms (CDM) with only seven per cent of PSUs convinced about its efficacy. ONGC, SAIL and IOC have emerged as the front-runners in using CDM but the majority of PSUs have stee-red clear of adopting these emission reduction techniques. CDM allows emission reduction projects in developing countries to earn certified emission reduction (CER) credits (where reduction costs are lower) by selling these to

Denying any role of her outfit in terror activities, Himani Savarkar, chief of the radical Hindu outfit Abhinav Bharat, on Sunday said that the leaders of her organisation remained in touch with top brass of several right wing organisations.

Despite a strong clamour by several state leaders for a change of alliance partner in Tamil Nadu, sources say the central leadership of the Congress is all set to be guided only by the comfort level of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)-2. Besieged as it is on several fronts, the party can ill-afford at this juncture to take a daring step.

The confrontation between the two national parties — the Congress and the BJP — is expected to intensify, with the main Opposition seeking to take the Bofors payoffs trail “directly to the doorstep” of the Congress chief.

Three persons were injured in separate fire incidents in the capital in the last 24 hours. Three labourers suffered minor injuries when a fire broke out in a shoe factory at Ashok Vihar in northwest Delhi on Sunday morning.

A 22-year-old student allegedly committed suicide at his Mandawali residence on Saturday evening. The deceased, identified as Mani Shankar, a resident of Sonebhadra district in Uttar Pradesh, was pursuing a diploma course in computer networking from a private institute.