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Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram's victory from Tamil Nadu's Sivaganga constituency in the 2009 national election holds, the Madras High Court said today, cancelling a petition which challenged the former Union Minister's Lok Sabha election win.

BJP president Amit Shah Tuesday trained his guns on the DMK-Congress alliance in Tamil Nadu, alleging that Karti Chidambaram, A Raja and Kanimozhi, fielded by the combine for the Lok Sabha elections, were tainted with corruption.

The poll prospects of 845 contestants, including 2G scam accused A Raja and Dayanidhi Maran, Congress' Manishankar Aiyar and Finance Minister P Chidambaram's son Karti, will be known tomorrow when votes polled for 39 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu are taken up for counting.

At Sivaganga in Tamil Nadu, Finance Minister P Chidambaram's son Karti is the Congress candidate. His main rival is PR Senthilnathan of the AIADMK, whose Raja Kannapan had lost by a wafer-thin margin to Mr Chidambaram in the 2009 election.

A parliamentary committee that has turned into a war zone between the Congress and the opposition may get an extension until the next Parliament session, say sources. The 30-member committee has conducted an inquest of the telecom or 2G scam with differing conclusions.

The man who is being tried for masterminding a telecom scam worth Rs 1.76 lakh crore today said, "I will prove my innocence."

Slamming the leakage of the draft Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) report on 2G scam as a "gross breach of Parliamentary propriety", BJP on Friday said its contents appeared like Congress documents where attempts have been made to save its leaders including the Prime Minister.

A Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) appointed to study the 2G scam has said in its report that neither the Prime Minister nor Finance Minister P Chidambaram were aware of the malpractices of then Telecom Minister A Raja which allowed ineligible companies to grab cheap mobile network licenses with second-wave or 2G airwaves thrown in for free.

A parliamentary committee appointed to study the 2G scam has said in its report that neither the Prime Minister nor Finance Minister P Chidambaram were aware of the malpractices of then Telecom Minister A Raja which allowed ineligible companies to grab cheap mobile network licenses with second-wave or 2G airwaves thrown in for free.

BJP leader Yashwant Sinha has written to the Prime Minister, demanding that he testify for a parliamentary committee that's dissecting the telecom or 2G scam, named for the second-generation airwaves involved.

A joint parliamentary committee (JPC) examining the allocation of 2G spectrum is likely to shut the door on the opposition's demand that finance minister P Chidambaram be questioned by it. Senior BJP leaders, who are part of the JPC, walked out the session today demanding to know when Mr Chidambaram, as well as the prime minister and then-telecom m...

The Supreme Court has dismissed two petitions against P Chidambaram asking for him to be investigated by the CBI in the telecom scam and to be made co-accused along with former Telecom Minister A Raja. Full text of the Supreme Court judgement.

Relief for Chidambaram: The Supreme Court has dismissed cases against P Chidambaram asking for him to be investigated by the CBI in the telecom scam. The verdict offers significant relief for the Finance Minister, whose resignation has been demanded by the main opposition party, the BJP, in what is described as India's biggest swindle.

In huge relief for the Congress-led UPA government, the Supreme Court has dismissed two petitions seeking a CBI investigation against Finance Minister P Chidambaram in the 2G telecom scam. Mr Chidambaram was Finance Minister in 2008, when then Telecom Minister A Raja allegedly gifted mobile network licenses and frequency to ineligible companies.

Reserve Bank of India governor D Subbarao met finance minister P Chidambaram on Monday. The relationship between the finance minister and the governor is critical in the context of the situation in the economy. The need of the hour though is to take steps in the national interest. They have to be taken even if they are not acceptable to all.

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram's victory from Tamil Nadu's Sivaganga constituency in the 2009 national election holds, the Madras High Court said today, cancelling a petition which challenged the former Union Minister's Lok Sabha election win.

BJP president Amit Shah Tuesday trained his guns on the DMK-Congress alliance in Tamil Nadu, alleging that Karti Chidambaram, A Raja and Kanimozhi, fielded by the combine for the Lok Sabha elections, were tainted with corruption.

The poll prospects of 845 contestants, including 2G scam accused A Raja and Dayanidhi Maran, Congress' Manishankar Aiyar and Finance Minister P Chidambaram's son Karti, will be known tomorrow when votes polled for 39 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu are taken up for counting.

At Sivaganga in Tamil Nadu, Finance Minister P Chidambaram's son Karti is the Congress candidate. His main rival is PR Senthilnathan of the AIADMK, whose Raja Kannapan had lost by a wafer-thin margin to Mr Chidambaram in the 2009 election.

A parliamentary committee that has turned into a war zone between the Congress and the opposition may get an extension until the next Parliament session, say sources. The 30-member committee has conducted an inquest of the telecom or 2G scam with differing conclusions.

The man who is being tried for masterminding a telecom scam worth Rs 1.76 lakh crore today said, "I will prove my innocence."

Slamming the leakage of the draft Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) report on 2G scam as a "gross breach of Parliamentary propriety", BJP on Friday said its contents appeared like Congress documents where attempts have been made to save its leaders including the Prime Minister.

A Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) appointed to study the 2G scam has said in its report that neither the Prime Minister nor Finance Minister P Chidambaram were aware of the malpractices of then Telecom Minister A Raja which allowed ineligible companies to grab cheap mobile network licenses with second-wave or 2G airwaves thrown in for free.

A parliamentary committee appointed to study the 2G scam has said in its report that neither the Prime Minister nor Finance Minister P Chidambaram were aware of the malpractices of then Telecom Minister A Raja which allowed ineligible companies to grab cheap mobile network licenses with second-wave or 2G airwaves thrown in for free.

BJP leader Yashwant Sinha has written to the Prime Minister, demanding that he testify for a parliamentary committee that's dissecting the telecom or 2G scam, named for the second-generation airwaves involved.

A joint parliamentary committee (JPC) examining the allocation of 2G spectrum is likely to shut the door on the opposition's demand that finance minister P Chidambaram be questioned by it. Senior BJP leaders, who are part of the JPC, walked out the session today demanding to know when Mr Chidambaram, as well as the prime minister and then-telecom m...

The Supreme Court has dismissed two petitions against P Chidambaram asking for him to be investigated by the CBI in the telecom scam and to be made co-accused along with former Telecom Minister A Raja. Full text of the Supreme Court judgement.

Relief for Chidambaram: The Supreme Court has dismissed cases against P Chidambaram asking for him to be investigated by the CBI in the telecom scam. The verdict offers significant relief for the Finance Minister, whose resignation has been demanded by the main opposition party, the BJP, in what is described as India's biggest swindle.

In huge relief for the Congress-led UPA government, the Supreme Court has dismissed two petitions seeking a CBI investigation against Finance Minister P Chidambaram in the 2G telecom scam. Mr Chidambaram was Finance Minister in 2008, when then Telecom Minister A Raja allegedly gifted mobile network licenses and frequency to ineligible companies.

Reserve Bank of India governor D Subbarao met finance minister P Chidambaram on Monday. The relationship between the finance minister and the governor is critical in the context of the situation in the economy. The need of the hour though is to take steps in the national interest. They have to be taken even if they are not acceptable to all.