Amid the ongoing 2G note crisis, a high level meeting is presently underway at Congress President Sonia Gandhi's residence. Senior Congress leaders AK Antony and Ahmed Patel are attending the meeting. According to media reports, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee also joined them at 10 Janpath some time later.
The reports said that the home minister P Chidambaram and finance minister Pranab Mukherjee may address the media later in the day to clarify the situation.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to hold a meeting of ministers this evening to defuse the crisis arising out of the controversial finance ministry for more details....

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The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption today carried out raids at the residence of former Tamil Nadu Minister T M Anbarasan at Kundrathur near here in connection with a disproportionate assets complaint, police said.
Anbarasan was the Labour Minister in the previous DMK government.
The DVAC had on September 27 raided the premises of K Ponmudi, now for more details....

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Amid the raging row over the controversial 2G note, three ministers last night met Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee at his residence to find a way out to end the political storm.
PK Bansal, V Narayanaswamy and Rajiv Shukla met Mukherjee after 11 pm when the Finance Minister drove in from his North Block office.
There was no official word on what transpired at the meeting.
The meeting took place hours after Mukherjee wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan for more details....

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The CBI on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that an FIR against former communications minister and DMK leader Dayanidhi Maran in the 2G case would be filed by the end of this month.
The CBI told the apex court that the preliminary inquiry in respect of Maran in the 2G scam has been completed.
The probe agency's senior counsel KK Venugopal told the apex court bench of Justice GS Singhvi and Justice AK Ganguly that the conclusions drawn on the basis of the initial inquiry were being looked into by CBI officials and the decision on the filing of an FIR against for more details....

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The BJP on Wednesday slammed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his defence of home minster P Chidambaram in the 2G spectrum issue.
Talking to media, BJP leader Sushma Swaraj said that the PM had, a few months back, expressed his commitment to fight corruption but he is not keeping his promise by defending Chidambaram.
Swaraj said that Chidambaram had committed the same crime as jailed former telecom minister A Raja. She further said that the CBI was also trying to protect Chidambaram as it had recorded the statements of BJP leaders Arun Shourie and Jaswant Singh but not for more details....

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As a huge victory for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act was today upheld by the Calcutta High Court.
The Act was constitutional and valid, said the High Court.
Banerjee in October 2006 launched an agitation against the construction of the Singur plant of Tata Motors. On December 4 2006, she went on for more details....

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A Delhi court will on Wednesday decide on former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh's bail plea in the 2008 cash-for-votes scam.
The Rajya Sabha MP's interim bail in 2008 scam was extended for a day on Tuesday by special judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal.
Arguing for Singh's bail, his counsel Hariharan said that as per the medical report received from AIIMS, his client is still not well and his vital parameters are above normal limit.
"I (Amar Singh) have amply demonstrated before the court that I am a sick and infirm person and the court could grant me bail on this ground alone,"he said.
He also said the prosecution has no evidence against his client to show his involvement in the alleged conspiracy of bribing BJP MPs to win their votes in the for more details....

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Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday maintained that he will speak, if necessary, on the finance ministry note on 2G spectrum allocation issue only after talking to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tomorrow.
"I am reiterating what I have said in New York and Delhi. If there is anything necessary to speak on the finance ministry note obtained through an RTI application, I will speak after talking to the Prime Minister and other senior colleagues tomorrow", Mukherjee told reporters at his residence here.
"Yesterday, I had stated that so long the Prime Minister is outside for more details....

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Former Telecom Minister A Raja today told a Delhi court that former finance minister and now Home Minister P Chidambaram, should be summoned and examined as a witness in the 2G spectrum allocation case.
Appearing for Raja, senior advocate Shushil Kumar told Special CBI Judge OP Saini that the agency should have recorded Chidambaram's statement regarding a cabinet meeting in which he had clarified the issue of dilution of shares.
Raja's counsel submitted that Chidambaram should be asked whether he gave the advice on the issue of dilution of shares in the presence of Prime Minister for more details....

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In an attempt to contain the damage due to the growing perception of a dispute between him and home minister P Chidambaram over the 2G issue, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee is expected to meet Sonia Gandhi on Monday after returning from New York. According to reports, the finance minister will inform Sonia about his meeting with the Prime Minister in New York.
According to media reports, Pranab told the PM in New York that the Prime Minister's Office was behind the leaking of the 2G note, which is the cause of the present controversy. Pranab also told the PM that PMO role too could come under scanner in the case.
Pranab is also expected to meet home minister P Chidambaram in India to further diffuse the tension, according to media reports.
Earler on Sunday, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said that he would discuss the issue with Chidambaram, his"valued colleague", and law minister Salman Khurshid before for more details....

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday fully backed Home Minister P Chidambaram on the 2G spectrum issue and ruled out any infighting among the ministers.
"I don't know what note you are talking about. The whole 2G matter is before the court. I don't want to comment on a matter that is subjudice,"he told media accompanying him from Frankfurt to New York.
"As far as Mr P Chidambaram is concerned, as Finance Minister, he had enjoyed my full confidence and as Home Minister he continues to enjoy and inspire my full confidence,"he said.
The Prime Minister was asked about the surfacing of a Finance Ministry note of March, 2011, which has said that the then Finance Minister P Chidambaram could have recommended for more details....

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Hailing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's recent visit to Bangladesh as "really successful,"Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina has expressed optimism that her country will be able to work out the Teesta water sharing agreement with India.
India and Bangladesh had inked various pacts during Singh's visit early this month but could not sign a deal on the Teesta water sharing.
Hasina said she was not disappointed that the two sides could not sign the Teesta water sharing deal during the visit.
"I am not that much disappointed because I feel we can solve this problem (Teesta water sharing) bilaterally and I am very much optimistic about it,"Hasina, who for more details....

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India’s Cabinet Ministers have now made their riches public. Legend is that our Cabinet Ministers have wealth in immeasurable numbers. But the assests they have officially filed falls short of the exact wealth they have. It.
Our inefficient and corrupt Cabinet comprises of 5 crorepatis. The first among equals, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is not the richest member of his Cabinet, but even he reports a total asset value of Rs. 4.30 crore.
Surprisingly, Finance Minister and the presumed number two, Pranab Mukherjee, is some distance away from Dr. Singh with his total assets valued at around Rs.1 crore. This is apart from the assets held by Mr. Mukherjee's wife estimated at just for more details....

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Congress leaders Shankarsinh Vaghela and Arjun Modhvaida today ended their fast, which was a counter to the one observed by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
They ended their fast by consuming lemon juice offered by children.
The Congress leaders were on a fast to counter Modi's three-day long fast under'Sadbhavna Mission'for peace, unity and harmony in the state. Modi broke his fast yesterday.
The Congress leaders, who dubbed Modi's fast as"five star"due to its air-conditioned ambience, observed their fast on a footpath in front of the Sabarmati Ashram.
Though the Congress fast was a lacklustre affair in comparison for more details....

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Gujarat CM Narendra Modi sat on a three-day fast for"harmony"in Ahmedabad after the Supreme Court referred to a lower court a case in which he was accused of complicity in the 2002 violence. Though Modi said that his fast is for peace and communal harmony many people said that it was aimed at softening his image that was hurt by the 2002 Gujarat riots.
Was Modi able to clean his image by his fast? 
During his three-day fast for"harmony", Modi slipped once while walking the tight rope to reach out to Muslims. He regained balance, but not very convincingly.
On Sunday, the second day of his three-day show of clout among minorities - parading for more details....

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Barely two months after he was appointed Lokayukta of Karnataka, Justice Shivraj Patil today resigned after a controversy erupted over allotment of housing sites for him and his wife allegedly in violation of rules. 71-year-old Patil, a former Supreme Court judge who was made Karnataka's ombudsman on August 3 succeeding Santosh Hegde, called on Governor H R Bhardwaj and submitted the papers.
Stung by the the allegations against him, a visibly upset Patil announced his resignation at a news conference after describing the campaign against him as"malicious"."This malicious campaign has deeply hurt and pained me. In this uncongenial atmosphere I have deemed it appropriate to submit my resignation,"he said.
Patil, whose office is required to investigate land scams some of which involve high-profile politicians, himself faced allegations that he and his wife own three plots of land in Bangalore in violation of city bylaws. The politicians included former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, who for more details....

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Security officials have traced the origin of the HuJI email, claiming responsibity for the Delhi High Court blast on Wednesday, to a cyber cafe in Kishtwar district, Jammu and Kashmir, say media reports. Reports say that the police are questioning the cyber cafe owner from where the email allegedly originated.
The email was received by different media organisations on Wednesday allegedly from Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI) and said that the group took responsibility for the blasts which killed 11 people and injured over 70. HuJI is a outlawed Bangladesh-based terrorist for more details....

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Taking the trade route to cement bilateral ties, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has announced duty-free import of 61 items from Bangladesh that were barred from entering India.
A majority of these items 46 to be precise, relate to textiles, particularly readymade garments.
Singh, who on his maiden bilateral visit to Bangladesh, said India was "fully alive to the problem
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YSR Congress party president and MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy could possibly be the next to be arrested by the CBI. Gali Janardhana Reddy and Jagan Mohan Reddy are both facing a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe that is also investigating financial links between the two. The YSR family and Gali brothers were seen to have enjoyed a symbiotic relationship that helped both parties. It was YSR Reddy, who granted Janardhana the lease for his mining operations in Andhra for more details....

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Former SP general secretary Amar Singh has been arrested in connection with the cash-for-vote scam. Delhi court rejected his bail petition and sent him to judicial custody.
He can file for regular bail on September 16. Mahavir Bhagora has also been arrested. Earlier, he claimed that he suffered from kidney ailment and was surviving on a donor's kidney. The special court judge had asked Amar Singh and others to for more details....

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today arrived here on a two-day visit aimed at further strengthening India's relations with Bangladesh.
Singh, his wife Gursharan Kaur and a high-level delegation were accorded red-carpet welcome when their special aircraft landed at the Shahjalal International Airport.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina received Singh at the airport.
Singh will go straight to the National Memorial at suburban Savar to for more details....

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In a major embarrassment for Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, one of her top aide had described her as a person with a “penchant for personal corruption” and“a strong authoritarian streak”, reports claimed on Tuesday.
According to a secret US embassy cable accessed and published by the whistle blowing website WikiLeaks, BSP general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP Satish Chandra Mishra had made this utterance about her party chief during a meeting with US for more details....

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Congress President Sonia Gandhi is recovering well and will be back here this week accompanied by her daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who is with her in the US.
Sources said Rahul Gandhi, who returned from the US yesterday, shared information about his mother's health with party leaders while chatting with them in Lok Sabha today.
Gandhi was seen interacting with Congress leaders RPN Singh, Arun Yadav, Sanjay Nirupam, Sis Ram for more details....

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A special CBI court in Hyderabad today (Sep 5) has sent mining baron and former minister G Janardhan Reddy and Managing Director of Obalapuram Mining Company B V Srinivas Reddy to 14 days judicial custody after searches at their premises allegedly led to seizure of over 30 kg of gold and more than Rs 4.5 crore in cash.
Reddy, who was the Tourism and Infrastructure Development Minister in the previous B S Yeddyurappa government, was among those indicted by the Lokayukta report for more details....

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Anna Hazare today hit out at Digvijay Singh for stating that the RSS was actively involved in promoting his anti-corruption movement, saying the Congress general secretary should be admitted to a mental hospital.
"I have said this earlier also that people like Singh should be put in'Yeravada', (a well known place in Pune housing a government mental hospital),"Hazare told reporters when asked about his reaction on Singh's for more details....

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In the wake of a newspaper report stating that Tamil Nadu chief ministers had not declared their assets since long, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today said she possesses assets worth over Rs 51 crore and has not purchased any new property since coming to power three months ago.
Jayalalithaa told the state assembly that she had mentioned the details of her assets in the affidavit filed by her during the April 13 elections and"therefore, there is no need for more details....

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Lok Sabha will drop impeachment proceedings against Justice Soumitra Sen, originally scheduled for today.
The decision was taken at a meeting Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee had with Law Minister Salman Khurshid and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal.
Speaker Meira Kumar also consulted the government and political parties over the issue in the morning.
"There will be no impeachment as the process has now become infructuous after Sen's resignation was accepted,"a senior minister said speaking on the condition for more details....

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Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar is holding consultations with the representatives of government and political parties to take a decision on whether to go ahead with impeachment of Justice Soumitra Sen in Lok Sabha.
"I have to consult because there have been new developments. I will be talking (to political parties and government),"Kumar told media for more details....

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Both the Houses of Parliament were adjourned today following uproar by SP and BJP members on incidents of firing on lawyers by state revenue officials in Uttar Pradesh and the appointment of Lokayukta in Gujarat.
Soon after Speaker Meira Kumar made references in the Lok Sabha on the occasion of Teacher's Day, SP members led by Shailedra Kumar were on their feet demanding suspension of Question Hour to discuss the incident of firing for more details....

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A CBI team has raided the residence of former Karnataka Tourism minister and mining czar G Janardhana Reddy and also questioned him, sources said today.
The CBI team from Hyderabad entered Reddy's house at around midnight and escorted him to an undisclosed location for questioning, they said.
The team was also questioning Srinivasa Reddy, the managing director of Obulapuram Mining Corporation which is owned by the former minister.
The probe agency action comes a day after Reddy's associate for more details....

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The CBI today arrested mining baron and former minister G Janardhan Reddy and Managing Director of Obalapuram Mining Company B V Srinivas Reddy after conducting raids at their premises.
Reddy, who was the Tourism and Infrastructure Development Minister in the previous B S Yeddyurappa government, was among those indicted by the Lokayukta for more details....

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Activist Arvind Kejriwal on Friday alleged that the Income Tax department had sent him a notice on the orders of its "political bosses"  and accused the government of harassing him for supporting Anna Hazare, who went on a hunger strike last month for a stronger Lokpal bill.,
The department sent a notice to Kejriwal last month before Hazare began his fast at the Ramlila Ground in New Delhi. On Friday, Kejriwal held for more details....

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Congress on Friday decided to retain its MP and party spokesperson Manish Tewari in the Parliament's Standing Committee on the Lokpal Bill, according to media reports.
Tewari had earlier recused himself from the committee. The party did not agree to Tewari's decision to stay out of the for more details....

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A BJP delegation, under senior party leader LK Advani, is expected to meet President Pratibha Patil on Friday to demand recall of Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal for appointing Lokayukta in the state without consulting the chief minister Narendra Modi. The post had been lying vacant since2003.

The BJP has charged the governor of violating the federal character of the Constitution by making such an unilateral appointment. Gujarat Governor

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