Acting on complaints of some students, the Delhi University on Friday instructed colleges that students be given admission on the basis of provisional marksheets. Meanwhile, some colleges have allowed payment of fee by debit cards.

Supreme Court Justice Markandey Katju, whose direct appeal to the Pakistan government earlier had helped free Indian prisoner Gopal Dass from a jail in that country, has now taken up the case of octogenarian Pakistani professor Khalil Chishty with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, seeking his release from an Indian jail on “humanitarian” grounds.

The Uttar Pradesh government, on Friday, filed the status report on investigation into the alleged rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl in Lakhimpur district before the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court.
The court has fixed July 4 as the next date of hearing.

The Indian government has signed a $1 billion loan with multilateral lending agency, the World Bank, to help support the cleaning of the Ganga river.

The confrontation between the government and the Opposition civil society, led by Mr Anna Hazare, has already set the tone of the Monsoon Session of Parliament which MPs fear will be “stormy” literally. The session is expected to start in the third week of July.

With the UPA government grappling with a spree of fasts for reasons like stopping corruption, introducing Lokpal bill and bringing back black money, its managers are in an overdrive to bring things under control.

In what seemed to be a bid by the ruling BJP to prevent the governor from recommending the dismissal of the state government, the party submitted individual letters of support of 10 BJP MLAs, whose di

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke to US President Barack Obama on Monday evening. The conversation was described as warm and as covering a wide range of subjects, including bilateral and regional issues.

Senior BJP leader and former PAC member Yashwant Sinha described in “one simple sentence” the volte-face by BSP and SP members on the controversial report of the PAC on the 2G Spectrum scam as well as the criticism of the report and PAC chief M.M. Joshi by the UPA members, as “choron ki baraat (gang of the crooks).”

Maintaining that early resolution of high profile cases being currently handled by the CBI constituted a “litmus test” for the agency, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday called upon the officials of the India’s premier investigating agency to put their heads down and avoid media glare ensuring logical conclusion of the cases.