The joint parliamentary committee (JPC) on Tuesday decided to summon finance secretary R.S. Gujral on October 12 to explain why the ministry’s note on 2G spectrum issue to the Prime Minister’s Office, was not submitted before the panel.

Insisting that the finance ministry’s note to the Prime Minister’s Office on the 2G spectrum issue is the “factual recording” of happenings in the case, senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said the Congress is trying to find a “patchwork” solution to the “crisis” created by the note.

Disturbed over frequent quarrels, a doctor allegedly throttled his wife to death and threw her body in a river in Allahabad. The police has arrested the accused. According to the police, Chandra Vibhash, a surgeon in Deen Dayal Upadhayay,

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appeared unfazed by the swirling controversy over certain aspects of the 2G spectrum case in the course of which the principal Opposition party, the BJP, has targeted Union home minister P. Chidambaram, and even hinted at the Prime Minister’s personal culpability in the 2G case.

At least five people were feared killed and many others trapped when two old buildings collapsed in Chandani Mahal area of old Delhi on Tuesday. The incident was reported at around 8 pm when house number 833 of Chandani Mahal area near Jama Masjid came crashing down on the ground. Around 20

Delhi’s private power distribution company BSES Rajdhani Power Limited has extended its cash counter timings for 12 hours. Extending the time limits, the company has also provided easy bill outlets in the neighbourhood of their customers.

The CBI on Monday sought framing of a charge of criminal breach of trust against former communications minister A. Raja and 16 others allegedly involved in the 2G spectrum allocation scam, which might see the accused, if convicted, facing a maximum punishment of life imprisonment.

The Delhi police has arrested a 60-year-old man for allegedly selling illegal firearms to criminals. Khilafat, from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, was apprehended from Jehangirpuri on Friday when he came there to allegedly deliver weapons, Ashok Chand, deputy commissioner of police (crime), said. Eight weapons,

The Asia-Pacific is leading the world in energy use which has grown since 1970 at a compounding annual growth rate of 3.9 per cent while in the rest of the world the growth rate was 1.4 per cent.

A man was sentenced to five years imprisonment for unintentionally pushing a neighbour to death from a three-storied building during a trivial fight.