The death toll in Monday evening’s building collapse at Lalita Park in Laxmi Nagar area of east Delhi climbed to 66 on Tuesday. The owner of the building, Mr Amritpal Singh, has been arrested by the east Delhi police and booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

Stating that the party would react to the CAG report relating to department of telecommunication only after studying it, the Congress on Tuesday chose to steer itself clear of the SC’s observation as to why PM Manmohan Singh did not act for long on the issue of granting sanction to prosecute Mr A. Raja in the 2G spectrum scam.

Janata Party chief Subramanium Swamy on Tuesday stated on Tuesday that he was planning to file a criminal complaint agai-nst former telecom minister A. Raja on charges of corruption for his role in the 2G spectrum allocation scam.

The Opposition on Tuesday increased pressure on the government for a joint parliamentary committee into 2G spectrum allocation issue against the backdrop of the Supreme Court’s observation about the delay on the part of the Prime Minister in taking a decision on a plea for sanction of prosecution of former telecom minister A. Raja .

In what lends the situation a delicious sense of irony, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was busy emphasising the need for the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) to focus more on “big ticket items on which large sums of public money are expended” on Tuesday, the very same day CAG’s report on the 2G spectrum allocation scam was tabled in Parliament.

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The death toll in Monday evening’s building collapse at Lalita Park in Laxmi Nagar area of east Delhi climbed to 66 on Tuesday. Building owner Amritpal Singh has been arrested and booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday put the blame on the MCD for allowing unauthorised constructions in the area where the building collapsed. However, the MCD maintained that it was an unauthorised colony and it was the Delhi government, which talked about regularising them. Leader of the Opposition Vijay Kumar

“Yehi hai woh darwaza jo is imarat ka kabi hissa hua karta tha,” roared a TV reporter, settled between a mountain of debris deposited by a MCD dumper and a shy man donning a half torn dhoti. The camera tilted up and the shy man, Sushant Haldar, prepared to speak.

Former Samajwadi Party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh, on Monday, announced that his Lok Manch would now serve as an umbrella organisation of various smaller political parties in Uttar Pradesh. Till now, Mr Singh has insisted that the Lok Manch was a non-political organisation.