The Congress is mounting pressure on DMK chief M. Karunanidhi to agree to drop controversial Union telecom minister A. Raja from the Union Cabinet on the 2G spectrum allocation issue. The controversy has united the Opposition and isolated the DMK at the Centre.

On the occasion of Children’s Day, Punjab National Bank launches the PNB Bal Vikas deposit scheme exclusively for children.

The 13th annual India International Trade Fair will begin on Sunday. This year the theme of the fair will be “energytech and envirotech” to address the global concerns on climate change and every crisis.

R.K. Sharma, the former Haryana IPS officer convicted in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, has pleaded before the Delhi high court that there were several missing links in the chain of circumstances in the murder case, as claimed by the prosecution.

Delhi high court judge Ajit Bharihoke has directed parents of a 22-year-old girl, who apprehends honour killing as she refused to go back to her husband’s house after being forcibly married, to appear before the court on March 13.

In the wake of the alleged terror threat of US-bound parcel bombs from Yemen, the civil aviation ministry has intensified security at cargo terminals across the country, including setting up of 15 feet-high barbed wire fences within the cargo terminals for segregation of cargo subjected to security screening and cargo yet to be screened.

The CBI is likely to arrest some more officials of the Gujrat police in connection with probe into the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, in which former Gujarat’s minister of state (home) Amit Shah is also an accused.

The Enforcement Directorate will soon starts its probe into the alleged financial irregularities in awarding contracts related to the overlays for the Commonwealth Games (CWG). Contracts for overlays amounted to a total of nearly Rs 700 crores.

Continuing its demand of sacking of telecom minister A. Raja, the main Opposition BJP on Saturday said reports that a law ministry official facilitated a meeting between Mr Raja’s lawyer, CBI official and solicitor-general to chalk out a “unified strategy” on the 2G spectrum case was a “clear proof” of the government’s cover-up plan and “tantamount to contempt” of the Supreme Court.

BJP chief Nitin Gadkari on Saturday said though he wants former party leader Uma Bharti’s back in the party fold, the saffron sanyasin has asked for more time for contemplation and to recuperate from ill health.