The Congress is confident that the arrest of former telecom minister A. Raja and CBI’s search of Kalaigner TV office in Chennai in connection with the 2G spectrum scam, would not have a bearing on its alliance with the DMK.

All aspirants of Rajya Sabha membership from the Maharashtra Congress, who were eyeing a seat vacated by Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan, are all pretty disappointed. The Congress high command is in favour of giving Mr Chavan’s Rajya Sabha seat to Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Suresh Pachouri. The exercise has now begun in the state Congress to create pressure on the top leaders by using the local versus outsider card.

Jarina Bibi, Mairag Begum, Amiran Bibi, Ibrahim Ali, Fatima Bibi, Isad Ali, Amir Ali, Gulban Bibi and Halima Bibi, all residents of a village Haligaon, were quite oblivious to the fact that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited them on Saturday to see if Central government’s flagship scheme, the Multi-Sectoral Development Programme (MsDP) has really reached them.

The CPI(M) has criticised recent indications by the government that it will give immunity to tax evaders who has money stashed away illegally either in India or abroad and allow them to pay tax plus the penalty on it.

In what may have serious implication over the law and order situation of the state, the anti-talk faction of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) here on Saturday warned the ruling Congress Party of serious consequences for their “arrogant policies” and called upon the people to boycott the meeting of the ruling party.

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Saturday played down the Delhi high court rap to the city government for its direction to Delhi Electricity Regulat-ory Commission (DERC) on tariff policy. She was inaugurating a power sub-station in the city. Replying to a query on high court’s displeasure over use of some words in the Delhi government’s

The Greater Noida district administration on Saturday secured the release of two Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority officers who were allegedly abducted by agitating farmers protesting for higher compensations for their land acquired by the UP government. The farmers had also demanded the release of their leader and other arrested farmers.

The Delhi high court on Saturday deferred to March 8, the decision on the date of the DNA test for Congress leader N.D. Tiwari on a paternity suit by a youth claiming to be his biological son. The court issued notice to the Centre for Cellular Microbiology, Hyderabad, seeking an explanation for not discussing the test procedure with the court. The court has asked the centre to reply before March 8.

A 30-year-old property dealer was shot dead late on Friday in north Delhi by four unidentified men riding motorcycles. Police officers said that the initial investigations in the case point out to a possibility of personal rivalry. The deceased has been identified as Zubair, a resident of Indira Enclave, north-Delhi.

A student of medicine allegedly stabbed his former girlfriend and her companion in the Gautam Nagar area of Hauz Khas in south Delhi after he was asked to leave the apartment that he was sharing with the two women.