The Delhi Cabinet on Monday cleared the draft of the anti-touting bill that would be tabled in the Delhi Assembly in the winter session. As and when passed, the Act will replace an ordinance that was promulgated to prevent the tourists from being fleeced and harassed by the touts during the Commonwealth Games.

It was a scene of total chaos all around soon after the building collapse at Lalita Park in Lakshmi Nagar area in east Delhi on Monday evening. Ramesh Tyagi, whose house was adjacent to the ill-fated building, said: “Initially, I heard a sound very similar to a bomb explosion. Before I could realise what had happened, I heard people shouting that the building had collapsed.”

Now, it’s official. Playboy Playmate Pamela Anderson is going to enter Big Boss 4 this Wednesday. And as the Baywatch babe is ready to spice up the elaborate set, many wonder, will her presence give tough competition to our desi queens Veena Malik and Shweta Tiwari, who are known to add appeal to the show.

BJP parliamentary party chairman L.K. Advani on Monday praised US President Barack Obama for his “superb” address to Parliament but pointed out that he omitted mentioning Kashmir, when the issue was part of his own election campaign in 2008. In the latest post “A global partnership”, in his blog, the senior BJP leader has said

Appalled by the ill treatment of the widow of a highly-decorated Army major who fought three wars for the country but she in return was given a paltry pension of `80 per month, the Supreme Court on Monday ordered setting up a high-powered commission for redressal of the service-related problems of officers and personnel of the defence forces.

Former Samajwadi Party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh, on Monday, announced that his Lok Manch would now serve as an umbrella organisation of various smaller political parties in Uttar Pradesh. Till now, Mr Singh has insisted that the Lok Manch was a non-political organisation.

The meeting that was to have been held on Monday by Janata Dal (Secular) of non-NDA and non-UPA parties to discuss the 2G spectrum controversy got cancelled reportedly as the Left parties felt that the other parties that were invited for the meeting were not reliable.

The cleansing drive of the Congress has checked the bargaining power of its allies in the ruling United Progressive Alliance at the Centre and the supporting parties as well.

Taking credit for Union communication minister A. Raja’s resignation over the 2G spectrum scam, AIADMK general secretary J. Jayalalithaa demanded his arrest under the Prevention of Corruption Act and trial “for perpetrating the biggest scam in the history of mankind”.

At least 31 people were killed and 60 others were injured, 30 of them critically, when a five-storey building collapsed in the Lalita Park area of Lakshmi Nagar in east Delhi on Monday evening. More than 100 people were living in the building and while nearly 50 had been rescued, at least 40 others were feared trapped when reports