The Congress on Monday described as a “masterstroke” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s “brave and extraordinary” offer to appear before the Public Accounts Committee in connection with the parliamentary body’s probe into the 2G spectrum allocation. “I congratulate the Prime Minister for making the unprecedented brave and

Terming naxalism as a serious challenge for the country, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked for support from all political parties to tackle the menace.
Speaking at the Congress plenary session, the Prime Minister said “to face the challenge of naxalism we need to rise above partisan politics and the Centre and the states have to work together”.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh committed to bringing in the proposed National Food Security Act and said the government’s emphasis would be on increasing agricultural production and productivity.

Union home minister and senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Monday dismissed the BJP as a party that stands no chance of coming to power for a decade and even thereafter. He was addressing the 83rd Congress plenary on the concluding day of the two-day event.

Asking party workers to be ready to confront political opponents aggressively, the Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Monday directed the Pradesh Congress Committees to hold “at least one public meeting in every constituency”.

Highlighting the extent of “corruption” in police recruitments across the country, home secretary G.K. Pillai on Monday said that police recruitment is “mired in corruption” in most states and aspirants do not get recruited as constables or sub-inspectors unless “money is paid”.

The noose around the chairman of the organising committee (OC) of the Commonwealth Games, Suresh Kalmadi, tightened further with CBI inducting three more officers of the level of deputy inspector of general (DIG) into the probe related to CWG corruption issues.

The Supreme Court’s pressure seems to be working on the investigating agencies in the 2G scam case with the latest visible actions regarding the questioning of some key figures as the investigators exactly have 52 days in hand to show some real results in the status reports to the top court, which was very critical of the Delhi high court for not giving the 2G spectrum issue a serious consideration it deserved.

A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team Tuesday reached corporate lobbyist Niira Radia's house in Delhi to question her further in the 2G spectrum scam.

"Start afresh" is the message of Congress President Sonia Gandhi to partymen from Bihar in the wake of the party's drubbing in the recently-concluded Bihar assembly polls.