Israel’s secret agency Mossad had warned about India about the Delhi blast a long time ago. Somewhere Israel had a feeling that Iran was holding it responsible for a nuclear scientist’s death in Israel, and the damage done to the nuclear reactor there. To take care of the situation, Israel warned its embassies and people living in different countries to be careful and remain alert. But looks like India did not take this warning given by Israel as seriously as it should have.

Now there is enough light on why Harish Khare was ousted from the PMO. According to reliable sources, the IB had got hold of a mail of Khare’s whose language, thinking and intentions went against 10, Janpath. This mail is considered to be an important angle of the starting of 10, Racecourse and 7, Janpath face-off. It is worth mentioning here that this mail was sent to several editors and prominent journalists of English media when he was the media advisor to the prime minister. Obviously, when Sonia came to know about it, she felt really bad about it and the PM had no other option but to have Khare go.

It looks like the newly-appointed media advisor to the prime minister, Pankaj Pachauri, has started his work. The prime minister’s Twitter account “PMO India” has come into being. The strange thing about this is that no one is following this account.

Meanwhile, everything was in place in Bangladesh two months ago to overthrow Khaleda Zia’s government. Bangladesh’s army, who has no love lost with India, had made all preparations to make the ruling government fall. Thank god for India’s investigative agency RAW, which gave the information to Zia while there was still time, and she managed to control the damage.

The BJP leaders in UP are a tad worried about Uma Bharti. A group of BJP leaders wanted Uma Bharti to contest from Babina in Bundelkhand. Uma wasn’t ready for this at first, but after a lot of coaxing from central leaders, she agreed. Uma was told that if she is in the election field herself, it will give a moral boost to the party workers. And Babina wouldn’t have been a tough seat for Uma in any case, because it has the maximum number of Lodh voters. But the minute Uma was ready to take the plunge, BJP leaders such as Kalraj Mishra and Vinay Katiyar spoke up against it, they were scared that Uma might include herself as one of the contestants for the chief minister’s post. The protest from the leaders bore fruit and the BJP leadership decided that Uma will contest only the 2014 elections. Uma herself has never made clear her own opinion in the matter.

Babu Singh Kushwaha, Dadan Mishra, Sakshi Maharaj, Badshah Singh, Rajiv Mishra, Dhananjay Singh, Chatrapal Singh are the names of some tainted politicians who have joined the BJP. The entry to such politicians in the party makes fun of the BJP’s character. And the most surprising thing about this is the Sangh’s silence about all this. Now people from other parties are poking fun at it and asking BJP leaders, “So, when is Gadkari ji getting Kalmadi and Raja to join his party?”

Those who were there to notice Sonia’s mannerisms and body language during the Lokpal Bill debate must have clearly understood why the Congress was so aggressive and attacking towards Anna. A smiling and giggling Sonia during Lalu’s speech against Anna and Lokpal made it clear what her intentions were and people are well aware of it, too. But why is Sonia so upset with Anna? Anna has terribly upset Sonia by directly attacking Rahul Gandhi. After all, not only is Rahul Congress’ successor but also a PM-in-making. So this time, the Congress wants to settle scores with Anna.

This is a part of the important procedures of the US to save Zardari, and he has been sent to Dubai, from where he will be taken to London. The American investigative agencies had enough proof that Zardari’s life was in danger from the ISI. The US’ policy is to take the Pakistani president to London and the prime minister to Dubai and relocate them there. With Zardari, the US has proved how concerned it is about the safety of those close to it.

The FDI issue in retail area has brought about a storm in Indian politics. There is such a stand-off between the government and the Opposition that people can actually sense mid-term elections approaching. The BJP-led Opposition was once ahead in the race; it is believed that it has the support of 295 Lok Sabha members for raising its voice against FDI – all in all, the tables has turned so drastically that the Manmohan Singh government could have fallen flat on its face. At such a time, Congress’ Mr fix-its sprung to action and the exercise to pacify UPA’s coalition parties such as Trinamool and DMK started. The Congress managers managed to get Karunanidhi around easily, but Mamata won’t relent. With great difficulty, she is being persuaded to agree that if there is a vote against FDI in the Parliament, Trinamool will be absent. The DMK will also mark its absence, since the idea was the party’s itself. Out of the Parliament, both the DMK and Trinamool will continue to speak against the FDI. The Congress wants that too, so that the Parliamentary proceedings are disrupted until it reaches the magical 272 number.

The finance ministry sprang into action after getting the list. A team was hurriedly formed, and a high-level person of a level of advisor was given the responsibility to handle the entire operation. On the basis of the list, the team raided several people all over India. Most such raids took place in Gujarat and Mumbai. Several diamond merchants of Gujarat were raided too. It’s Delhi next. The people caught have been told to either file revised returns at the rate of 35 per cent, or be ready to be booked under FEMA, Prevention of Money Laundering Act as well as Income Tax Act. But it’s not enough to file revised returns alone – several officials may also have to be bribed. But some lawyers have not started to say that there is no need to file revised returns, since what is the proof that the list is authentic? But the government is in no mood to relent and is working on taking strict action against such people.