Only a week before the commencement of the Budget Session, senior BJP leader L.K. Advani added to the worries of the Congress-led UPA government by announcing that his party will not be content with just a JPC on 2G spectrum allocation scam. Claiming that in the last meeting of the Opposition leaders with Union finance minister

Public Accounts Committee chairman, Murli Manohar Joshi is apparently not satisfied with the response to his letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar complaining against telecom minister Kapil Sibal for rubbishing the CAG report on 2G spectrum allocation issue.

CBI director A.P. Singh on Tuesday told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), headed by senior BJP leader M.M. Joshi, that to say 2G spectrum allocation caused “zero loss” to the national exchequer is “wrong”. Telecom minister Kapil Sibal had recently said that the 2G spectrum allocation had caused “zero loss” to the national exchequer and also rubbished as “utterly erroneous” the CAG’s calculation that the presumptive loss was to the tune of `1.76 lakh crores.

Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan has decided to contest the state Legislative Council elections. Mr Chavan, who is currently the Rajya Sabha Member, wanted to contest an Assembly byelection from his home turf in Karad if someone in the Congress vacates his seat for him.

After his miserable failure in Bihar’s political arena, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav’s son and budding cricketer Tejaswi Yadav got a much-needed chance to begin his new innings in the stadium when he was secured by a team for the first Jharkhand Premier League (JPL) tournament in an auction.

Army on Tuesday ruled out any confrontation with Maoists, if the proposed training centre of the army comes up in Chhattisgarh’s Abujhmad forest, considered the Naxal headquarters.

In a Taliban-style act of moral policing, the Maoists in Bihar forced a dance show to stop midway because they thought the girls dancing on stage were scantily dressed and that their gestures to the tunes of film songs were vulgar.

Intending to give fillip to the efforts made by the state government, the planning commission on Tuesday agreed to give a substantial 20 percent hike to Bihar’s annual plan outlay to `24,000 crore for 2011-12.

The Kerala police on Tuesday registered a case against the Kannur Congress MP, Mr K. Sudhakaran, over his allegation that a Supreme Court judge had taken a bribe of `21 lakh for restoring annulled bar licences in the early 1990s. It was in the midst of a heated speech the other day that the Congress strongman said that he witnessed

The minister for agriculture, Mr Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy, and his son-in-law, Mr Narreddy Rajasekhar Reddy, have left for Delhi to meet the central leadership of the Congress in a bid to finalise their candidatures for the Pulivendula Assembly and the Kadapa Lok Sabha byelections respectively. Though they claim they were in Delhi to