Chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the 2G spectrum allocation issue, P.C. Chacko on Tuesday said all former telecom ministers since 1998, including A. Raja and Dayanidhi Maran, who are facing allegations in connection with the issue, will depose before the panel.

Acting on a plea of a private firm director who had alleged that certain officials of the State Bank of India (SBI) and Standard Chartered Bank were hand-in-glove for the sale of non-performing assets at throw-away prices to “builder mafias,” Justice Mukta Gupta of the Delhi high court has issued a notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) asking it to inquire into the matter.

Former BJP leader Kalyan Singh has said that the return of Uma Bharti to the BJP will not benefit the party in any way.

A Delhi court on Tuesday asked an additional DCP to appear before it and explain the withdrawal of a “look-out circular” (LOC) against two German directors of a multi-national company in a cheating case.

After the reinduction of Uma Bharti into the party BJP leaders were trying to woo Meena strongman and Dausa MP Kirodi Lal Meena,who had put a spanner in the party’s way in the last Assembly elections. The senior BJP leader and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley, had called on Mr Meena recently during his Jaipur visit.

There has been a spurt in aircraft landings after “go-around” of the aircraft over the New Delhi IGI airport in the past three months, prompting the state-run Airports Authority of India (AAI) to advise airlines to order their pilots to keep the speed of the aircraft within the requisite limit as the aircraft approaches the Delhi airport for landing. The advice

Two former chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh — Digvijay Singh and Uma Bharti — have emerged as key players in the impending Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh being the incharge of the Congress and the BJP for the state. The bitter rivals in Madhya Pradesh when in power and outside, would confront each other in the belt of Ganga-Yamuna in the fight for space against Mayawati and Mulayam Singh Yadav.

The Delhi police reiterated that the “provocative” speeches given by religious and political leaders, including Baba Ramdev and Sadhvi Ritambara, was the main reason which has forced it to cancel the permission for the yoga guru’s protest at Ramlila Maidan.

The Samajwadi Party on Tuesday mounted a blistering attack on the Congress-led UPA government on the issue of black money and corruption.

Union textiles minister Dayanidhi Maran on Monday denied allegations that he had forced NRI entrepreneur Sivasankaran to sell his stake in telecom firm Aircel to Malaysian company Maxis and sought to prove that Aircel was up for grabs even before he became communications minister.