Corporate affairs minister Salman Khurshid on Tuesday said that lobbying and public relations are part of the democratic set-up but cautioned against their use to subvert corporate governance.

Scoffing speculations in political circles about a possible rift between Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the backdrop of 2G spectrum controversy, the Congress on Tuesday emphatically denied any such misgivings. The party asserted that the understanding between the two “can never be better than as it exists today”.

BJP parliamentary party chief and NDA working chairman L.K. Advani on Tuesday alleged that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appeared to be more concerned about the leakage of tapes (taped conversation between corporate lobbyist Niira Radia and senior journalists) than credibility of his Cabinet. Mr Advani said government even

Taking suo motu cognisance of reports that night shelters have been razed in the city in the midst of winter, the Supreme Court on Wednesday restrained the Delhi government from demolishing any such shelter, temporary or permanent, in the capital.

Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday filed a petition in a Delhi court seeking his inclusion as a public prosecutor in the 2G spectrum case. In his petition filed before special CBI judge Pradeep Chaddah, Swamy pleaded that the court should take cognisance of his plea.

Defence minister A.K. Antony on Wednesday said the government and the armed forces will not spare any person found guilty of wrongdoing in the Adarsh Housing Society scam in Mumbai.

The Supreme Court Monday sought a copy of the complaint from the government against corporate lobbyist Niira Radia, referred to in the I-T department’s affidavit alleging she was an “agent” of a forei

Two days before Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao arrives here on a three-day visit, Beijing’s ambassador to Delhi Zhang Yan warned Monday that his country’s relations with India were “very fragile”, and needed “special care”.

Stirring a hornet’s nest, Union home minister P. Chidambaram on Monday sought put the blame on migrants in the national capital for most crimes in the city, including rape. But he was soon forced to retract as he came under severe criticism from both Congress and Opposition leaders.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi declared on Monday that the government had “nothing to hide, nothing to fear” on the 2G spectrum allocation issue, and firmly rejected once again the Opposition’s demand for a JPC to probe the scam.