The BJP has now unearthed a `75,000-crore coal scam in the UPA government. The party has directly blamed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for it, saying that the scam related to the period when the ministry was under his charge.

Even as the government continued its talks with Baba Ramdev on his fast against graft and black money, the Congress on Saturday alleged that the movement was being “remote controlled” by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

With the Ram Mandir issue having lost the power to bring in votes and catchy slogans having failed to mobilise cadres, the Bharatiya Janata Party has finally decided to take refuge in the charisma of former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to return to power in UP and at the Centre.

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on Saturday accused the Sonia Gandhi-led NAC of drafting a “perverse” and “ill-conceived” bill to tackle communal violence which, he claimed, portrays that the majority community is “always the perpetrator”.

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi will be the target of attack when state Congress leaders meet President Pratibha Patil on Friday seeking her intervention in the wake of the alleged corruption of `1 lakh crore during his tenure.

Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar with Pakistan MP Kashmala Tariq at Parliament House in New Delhi on Thursday.

Union ministers Kapil Sibal and Subodh Kant Sahay on Friday failed to reach an agreement with Baba Ramdev even after four hours of talks on the yoga guru’s threat to go on an indefinite fast against corruption.

Six months after settling back in power armed with a massive mandate, the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government in Bihar is now finding itself increasingly under political attacks due to the inappropriate behaviour of some of its ministers and MLAs and taking cautious steps at corrections.

Senior Union ministers will make a last-ditch effort to persuade the hugely popular yoga guru Baba Ramdev to call off his proposed hunger strike at a meeting with him here on Friday after earlier talks failed.

Stepping up his attack on Baba Ramdev, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on Friday alleged that RSS was behind the yoga guru’s indefinite fast beginning on Saturday.