The Congress must have realised by now that it gave too much leeway to Andimuthu Raja, the former telecom minister, who has been christened "spectrum" Raja by the media because of his suspected involvement in a gargantuan Rs.1.7 lakh crore (nearly $40 billion) corruption scandal relating to second-generation (2G) spectrum allocations by his department.

KATHMANDU - Nepals opposition Maoist party has backtracked on its pact with the ruling parties to allow a new budget, unleashing chaos in parliament, attacking the finance minister and derailing the budget as well as the prime ministerial election.