New Delhi: Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is expected to witness a stormy session on Tuesday as its chairperson Murli Manohar Joshi will table the 2G scam report, which was returned by the Lok Sabha Speaker.
Joshi had earlier stated that the 2G spectrum scam report, that was returned by Speaker Meira Kumar as it had not been adopted and passed by members of the outgoing PAC, will be tabled in the next meeting of the panel.
"The new PAC will decide what should be done with the report," Joshi had told reporters on June 17.
Since the divisions within the new PAC on the issue are still on party lines on the 2G scam report, any move to table the controversial document will be opposed by the Congress. The ruling coalition has a majority in the new PAC as well.
Congress members in the new PAC have already indicated that they would not allow the new panel to take up the 2G spectrum allocation scam as a JPC is already looking into it.
A UPA member of the new PAC said that the tabling of the controversial 2G report is not listed in tomorrow's agenda which has among others, a draft report on accelerated rural water supply programme based on a CAG report of 2008, and a few other draft reports for consideration and adoption.
Sources said the revelations made in a CAG draft report, 'leaked' to the media, on alleged favours to Reliance Industries in the KG Basin may also figure in the PAC meeting.
"The PAC can take suo moto cognisance of the issue like it did in the 2G scam case instead of waiting for the CAG report to be sent to the panel," a PAC member said.
The CAG report has alleged that between 2004-06, the Petroleum Ministry circumvented rules to allow Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) to benefit at the cost of government's own financial stake in development of K G Basin.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A major earthquake of 7.4 magnitude struck in the Pacific Ocean more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km) west of Anchorage on Thursday, prompting a brief tsunami warning for part of the remote Aleutian Islands chain.
No damage or injuries were reported. The warning, which extended for roughly 800 miles (1,300 km) -- from Unimak Pass, northeast of Dutch Harbor, westward to Amchitka Pass, west of Adak Island -- was canceled after a little more than an hour.
A tsunami wave measuring just 6 centimetres tall was recorded at Nikolski, a tiny Aleut village on the island of Umnak, and a 10-centimeter wave was observed at Adak, said Becki Legatt, a spokeswoman for the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska.
The coast of the entire Alaska peninsula and all of the Alaska mainland were never considered to be threatened.
The quake struck shortly after 7 p.m. local time (0300 GMT) at a depth of about 25 miles (40 km). A second tremor of magnitude 7.2 hit in the same vicinity of the Aleutians a half-minute later, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Quakes of 7 to 8 magnitudes and higher are relatively common in the Aleutians but are generally of little consequence because the island chain is so remote and sparsely populated.
"This is a very seismically active area," said Randy Baldwin, a USGS geophysicist with the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colorado.
A tsunami warning means all coastal residents in the warning area who are near the beach or in low-lying regions should move immediately to higher ground and away from harbors and inlets, including those sheltered directly from the sea.
