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  To Manmohan Singh's Jibe From Gujarat, Arun Jaitley's Stinging Takedown

  Hours after former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh renewed his criticism of the NDA government's sudden ban on high value notes that he has called "organised loot", Finance Minister Arun Jaitley delivered a stinging rebuttal. Mr Jaitley said an exercise backed by "an ethical and moral rationale" was being described as loot, before going on to refer t...

• Budget session of Parliament resumes; government faces heat on 2G, coal scam

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today appealed for the "House to function smoothly" ahead of the resumption of the Budget session. Earlier, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had warned that "the session will restart on a note of confrontation, not consensus".

• Press Note on 2G spectrum changed at the last minute: Attorney General GE Vahanvati

  The controversial press note regarding 2G licences was changed at the last minute by then Telecom Minister A Raja in 2008 with a different pen, former Solicitor General G E Vahanvati told the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on Tuesday, contending that his trust had been betrayed in the process.

• 2G auction: more woes for Bharti and Vodafone

  The telecom department wants to start the upcoming 2G auction by 11th March. In a note to the Empowered group of Ministers, which was viewed by NDTV, the telecom department wants to start the process of inviting successful bidders by 22nd February, finalise the bidders by 6th March and start the auction prices by 11th.

• Spectrum auction: Ministerial panel takes no decision, to meet on Monday

  The EGoM, in its agenda note for the auction, had recommended treating existing telecom companies such as Bharti Airtel and Vodafone as new entrants, and had also sought compulsory participation from them.

• RBI Governor appears before JPC on 2G scam, defends Chidambaram

  RBI Governor D Subbarao today appeared before a Parliamentary panel and said he did not agree with the controversial Finance Ministry note which suggested that Finance Minister P Chidambaram could have insisted on auctioning the 2G spectrum.

• Cabinet to take up 2G spectrum auction soon

  The telecom department has finalised a note for the cabinet which decides reserve prices for 2G auction as well as the spectrum usage charge to be paid by successful bidders.

• Did Public Accounts Committee influence 2G loss figure?

  The controversy over how the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) arrived at the controversial loss figure in the 2G scam doesn't seem to end. NDTV has now accessed an internal note which indicates that the government auditor took a cue from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) while calculating the revenue loss to the government.

• 2G note row: Pranab's letter to the PM

  NDTV has accessed a letter written by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to the Prime Minister. Written on September 26, a day after Mr Mukherjee met the PM in New York when the 2G note crisis was climaxing, the letter explains Mr Mukherjee's position. The Finance Minister says he was never in favour of submitting a formal note on spectrum allocatio...

• 2G note row: Emails back Pranab Mukherjee's rebuttal

  A month ago, Pranab Mukherjee had emphatically stated that an inference about his fellow minister P Chidambaram in a controversial note on the telecom scam was not his. Email exchanges between the Cabinet Secretariat and the Finance Ministry, that NDTV has now accessed, seem to support Mr Mukherjee's assertion. The emails show that officials in the...

• Pranab's 2G note tampered with, alleges BJP

  The note that questioned P Chidambaram's actions during the telecom scam continues to cause political aftershocks. The BJP alleges that a copy of the note was tampered with before it was submitted to a parliamentary committee studying the telecom scam.

• Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) wants more details on Pranab's 2G note

  The Finance Ministry's note, which seemed to hint that a section of the government questioned whether Mr Chidambaram acted strongly enough, provided a windfall to the opposition and led to new demands that his role be formally investigated by the CBI. The Supreme Court is now considering that option.

• Resignation reports? All 'bunkum' says Pranab

  Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has dismissed as "bunkum" reports that he had offered to resign following controversy over a note of his Ministry on the 2G issue.

• Pranab-Chidambaram truce was a farce, says Jaitley

  As the two-day national executive meet of the BJP concluded today in New Delhi, the party, not mincing any words in its attack on the government on the recent 2G note row, called the truce between Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Home Minister P Chidambaram a farce.

• Did Chidambaram offer to resign? Memory loss, he jokes

  P Chidambaram did not blink today when he was asked if he had offered to resign at the height of what's known as the 2G note controversy. "I have a short memory," the Home Minister said at a press briefing, "I do not remember whether I offered to resign."