Confusion prevailed at gate number three of the Pragati Maidan on Monday morning with even the employees of the India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO), which is organising the Trade Fair, failed to get entry. The bar code reader is also not functional which led the security personnel to check tickets manually.

The MCD plans to give cash assistance to the Class 1 to 3 students in its primary schools for buying woollens caps and gloves during the winter season. At least 5.5 lakh students are expected to be benefited.

The Delhi government on Monday gave relief to nearly 10,500 autorickshaws, who faced cancellation of their permits as they had not switched to smart card-based permits by extending the deadline by 45 days.

The 30th edition of the 14-day business and cultural extravaganza, the India International Trade Fair, got underway at Pragati Maidan here on Sunday promising a kaleidoscope of India’s diversity, coupled with a focus on business with the domestic and international stakeholders. The Union commerce minister Anand Sharma, who inaugurated the fair, also promised a world-class exhibition and convention centre. This time, 23 countries are participating as compared to 28 in 2009.

Even as the transport department of the Delhi government has announced that it will cancel the permits of 10,491 autorickshaws as they have failed to get the smart card-based permit issued despite repeated reminders and extension of deadlines, the autorickshaw unions maintained on Sunday that they were unaware of any such order. They further alleged that the autorickshaw drivers, whose vehicles were not registered in their names, were not being issued the smart card-based permits.

A domestic help working with a family at Greater Kailash in southeast Delhi for the last five years allegedly escaped from their residence along with `1 crore cash on Saturday evening.

Whatever you say, our heroes can actually look pretty when they dress in drag. Well, at least some of them like Aamir for one. Now, it is the turn of Akshaye Khanna to dress like a girl,

Britain’s defence chief, General Sir David Richards, warned on Sunday that the West will never defeat Al Qaeda, but added that the threat posed by the terrorist group could be contained.

With India showing a fast turnaround from the economic slowdown, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee now wants India to achieve 10 per cent GDP growth in the next two years.

London’s Grosvenor House Hotel, the iconic Park Lane hotel, is being sold to Indian business group Sahara India Pariwar, according to a newspaper report on Sunday.
The Sahara Group, which is led by billionaire Subroto Roy Sahara, will buy the Grosvenor House Hotel for about £470 million, according to the Sunday Times, which did not reveal the source of its information.