The process of forming a joint parliamentary committee to probe the 2G spectrum scam was completed Tuesday with the Rajya Sabha nominating 10 of its members to the panel. The committee has 20 Lok Sabha members who were nominated last week. Under attack over the 2G scam, telecom minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday sought

A Delhi court on Tuesday remanded the former top Commonwealth Games Organising Committee officials Lalit Bhanot and V.K. Verma to Tihar Jail under 14-day judicial custody till March 15 for their alleged involvement in an `107 crores deal with a Swiss firm to provide various logistic supports for the sports extravaganza.

Many in the Congress feel that the inclusion of the two BJP leaders in the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) would be a conflict of interests and wonder how can a person associated with the telecom policy examine the same policy in the JPC.

While the CBI in a fresh status report to the Supreme Court indicated that 63 persons, including CEOs of at least 10 telecom companies, have come under its probe into the 2G scam case, the attorney-general countered the charge that he had in his legal opinion cleared the allotment of 2G spectrum by former communications minister A. Raja.

The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to stay the Karnataka high court order disqualifying five Independent MLAs withdrawing the support to the Yeddyurappa government and their plea for allowing to cast their votes in the Rajya Sabha election on March 4 and keep the same in the “sealed cover” till final decision by the top court on the disqualification issue.

A day after finance minister Pranab Mukherjee tabled the Union Budget, the main Opposition BJP dubbed it a “status quoist” exercise. The party on Tuesday said the proposals made in it lacked vision and has failed to boost the confidence of the people. “We had hoped that it would be a brave Budget. A Budget with big thoughts. But it is a status quoist Budget,” Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj said.

With the Bahujan Samaj Party, Samajwadi party and the Bhartiya Janata Party mounting an offensive against the UPA government on the union budget, the Congress in Uttar Pradesh is now apprehensive that the angst of the salaried and middle-class may prove to be its undoing in the next Assembly elections in the state.

The infighting within the rank and file of the ruling Congress has come to open with PCC chief Bhuwneswar Kalita revoking the suspension of former education minister Ripun Bora, a week after Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi announced that former education minister Bora, who was caught red-handed in his attempt to bribe a CBI officer in New Delhi, would not be given party ticket.

The fate of the Congress’ chintan shivir which the party proposed to hold before the coming summer appears uncertain following the announcement of the poll schedule in five state Assemblies by the Election Commission.

In a bid to get the elections to the revived Tamil Nadu Legislative Council held before the Assembly polls fixed for April 13 by the Election Commission, the DMK-led coalition in the state on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court seeking the recall of its February 21 order staying the LC polls till July.