Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal had siphoned `70-80 lakhs of India Against Corruption (IAC), headed by Anna Hazare, and diverted the money to his private trust, alleged activist Swami Agnivesh who ha

Even as communication and IT minister A. Raja on Friday denied the charges against him in the 2G spectrum controversy, the Comptroller and Auditor General (GAG) is learnt to have said that the minister, “for no valid reasons” ignored the advice of law and finance ministries and allocated the spectrum at “less than its value, on flexible procedures adopted to benefit a few operators”.

Indian Police Service (IPS) officer K. Vijay Kumar, who will take over as the director-general of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Wednesday, says that the paramilitary force “will be readied to tackle the multi-faceted challenges”, especially Maoist extremism. “I am looking forward to work with a group of talented and dedicated officers and men,” Mr Vijay Kumar, 58, told IANS over phone from Hyderabad.

Declaring that he has “no regrets” for his public criticism of home minister P. Chidambaram’s counter-Maoist strategy focusing “only on the law and order angle”, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh says he had conveyed his concerns to the “right quarters” in the Congress leadership before penning his comments.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari is confident that his party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will return to power in the Lok Sabha polls in 2014.

Mr Ram Vilas Paswan, a former chemicals and fertiliser minister, says both the Congress and BJP-led governments at the centre were “non-serious in handling the Bhopal gas tragedy” and he heard one excuse after another as to why nothing could be done to give relief to the affected people or take action against then Union Carbine chief Warren Anderson.