The efforts of the environment and forests ministry declare Kaziranga national park, which has the world’s highest density of tigers, as a Project Tiger reserve appear to have backfired.

The differences between his mother Maneka Gandhi and Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi notwithstanding, young BJP MP Varun Gandhi on Wednesday called on his aunt to invite her for his wedding that is to be solemnised on March 6.

After in-principle agreeing to concede to the demands for a JPC probe into the alleged 2G spectrum scam, the government on Wednesday made a fresh bid to break the logjam in Parliament.

It is more bad news from Isro. The Indian hope of watching a desi space traveller orbiting the earth in an indigenous capsule before 2020 may remain a dream with the project making little progress in recent times.

Senior leader and Rajya Sabha MP from Andhra Pradesh Hanumantha Rao on Wednesday came down heavily on Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader Chandrababu Naidu, BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu and former Congress MP Jagan Mohan Reddy for accusing the Congress-led UPA government of being corrupt.

Almost all the law enforcement agencies have been put on the dock by country’s second largest telecom service provider Reliance Communications in an affidavit to the Supreme Court on the telephone tapping controversy as the company accused them of flouting the rules laid down by the department of telecom on the interception of telephonic messages.

An embarrassed government is all set to annul the controversial Antrix-Devas contract with the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) slated to meet on Friday in which a decision to scrap the agreement is likely to be taken. The ministries concerned have recommended annulling the deal and sought additional probe into the award of the contract, sources said.

Accusing the government for “loot” of public money through the 2G spectrum allocation and other scams, the Left parties on Wednesday attacked Dr Manmohan Singh for equating the loss with subsidising foodgrains to the poor.

Terming Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s charge that the BJP was attacking the government to vent its anger over the action taken against a Gujarat minister (Amit Shah) “laughable”, the main Opposition on Wednesday accused him of trying to “cover up” the various scams. The saffron party also said that “coalition dharma” did not mean supporting corruption.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said the internal security scenario continues to be a matter of great concern but asserted that the government is better prepared now to deal with any terror threat. “Internal security of the country has been a great concern. I would not like to say we did not worry about terror acts, (but) we are better prepared to deal with acts of terror and prevent many potential terrorist acts,” he said in an interaction with television editors.