Congress president Sonia Gandhi has asked for a detailed report on the alleged illegal iron ore mining scam in Goa that has the local Congress government on the backfoot.

After being sent for a four days judicial custody, former BJP leader and close aide of L.K. Advani, Sudheendra Kulkarni joined the league of VIP inmates in Tihar on Tuesday. 54-year-old Kulkarni, who was known for his contribution in the speeches of former Prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, was taken to the Tihar jail on Tuesday evening. Mr Kulkarni was sent for medical examination before being lodged in the jail.

A sharp conflict emerged between the Centre and the CBI in the Supreme Court on investigating the alleged role of home minister P. Chidambaram in the 2G scam as finance minister in UPA-I with the government stating that trial court could order the probe if required but the agency emphatically objecting to it

A Municipal Corporation of Delhi engineer, caught taking `20,000 as bribe from a contractor, was sentenced to four years in jail.

The joint parliamentary committee (JPC) on Tuesday decided to summon finance secretary R.S. Gujral on October 12 to explain why the ministry’s note on 2G spectrum issue to the Prime Minister’s Office, was not submitted before the panel.

The slapping of a sterner provision of criminal breach of trust by the CBI in the 2G case against former communications minister A. Raja and two senior officers serving under him has virtually given a new dimension to the entire matter: as the charge amounts to acknowledging a huge loss to the national exchequer.

The CBI has decided to register a “preliminary enquiry” (PE) to probe the alleged installation of 323 telephone lines at Chennai residence of Dayanidhi Maran during his tenure as communications minister between June 2004 and May 2007.

The crisis afflicting the Congress-led UPA government deepened Monday amid speculation that Union home minister P. Chidambaram had offered to resign during his meeting with Congress president Sonia Gandhi at her 10 Janpath residence following attempts to link him to the 2G spectrum scam.

Several senior lawyers having strong affiliation with DMK expressed surprise over the CBI’s latest move to add such a serious charge in the 2G spectrum scam at a stage when special judge O.P. Saini was all set to deliver his order on framing of the charge.

The Delhi high court on Monday asked the city government to file a status report detailing the number of poor patients given free treatment by private hospitals in last four years as per its earlier order.