Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has not taken any view on the controversy over jurisdiction of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament (PAC) and the joint parliamentary committee constituted to probe the 2G spectrum allocation scam.

Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare has threatened to fast unto death from Tuesday, till the government decided to enact the contentious Jan Lokpal Bill. While the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) took up the controversial Jan Lokpal Bill, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, on Monday appealed Anna Hazare to call off his proposed hunger strike.

Differences have surfaced in the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) over continuance of the probe by the committee into the 2G spectrum allocation scam. Also, head of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) P.C. Chacko, who was in Thrissur, said that it would be “desirable” if the Public Accounts Committee, headed by senior BJP

The Jama’at-e-Islami has decided to extend support to the left democratic front in the Assembly elections expecting a quid pro quo from the CPM when it floats its own political party.

The Trinamul Congress chief, Ms Mamata Banerjee, has asked the sons and daughters of party leaders to campaign for party candidates, not willing to give even an inch to the CPM. On Sunday, offsprings of the important CPM leader, late Anil Biswas, Mr Gautam Deb, Mr Shyamal Chakraborty and Mr Suryakanta Mishra, extensively

The Congress MP, Mr P.T. Thomas, on Monday released copies of a letter which he claimed that the Chief Minister, Mr V.S. Achuthanandan, had written to the CPM general secretary, Mr Prakash Karat, in 2005 accusing the party state secretary, Mr Pinarayi Vijayan, of flouting all rules in the SNC Lavalin deal signed by him in 1996.

The Congress party has left no stone unturned to reverse the anti-incumbency factors that party was facing in Upper Assam’s Tinsukia and Dibrugarh district as in the last leg of elections the party roped in its former ministers to drum up support for the candidate.

Years ago, when the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) was facing a political crisis of sorts, the legendary leader, Seethi Haji, thundered, “We don't need to go after ministerial berth; ministership will be brought to the Panakkad house on a silver platter.”

At least 16 dead foetuses and underdeveloped infants — 14 of them female — were found dumped in the open in Bihar’s Kishanganj on Sunday, indicating rampant female foeticide and female infanticide taking place in a state where the latest census noted an alarming fall in the sex ratio.

In a bid to cut regional party bosses to size and also to give room for young leaders in states to take centrestage in states, the top Congress leadership is considering a proposal to cap the tenure of its chief ministers to only two terms.