The thirtieth annual India International Trade Fair is set to start from November 14 in the city. The fair, the biggest in Asia, will be inaugurated by Union commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma.

A group of armed robbers barged into the residence of a businessman in south Delhi’s Vasant Vihar area on Wednesday afternoon, took his wife, elderly mother and two domestic helps hostage and decamped with cash and jewellery worth lakhs of rupees.

CPI(M) Rajya Sabha MP Sitaram Yechury on Wednesday said that the impeachment proceedings against Calcutta high court judge Soumitra Sen should be undertaken during the current session which ends on December 13.

Defence minister A.K. Antony on Wednesday said defence public sector undertakings (PSUs) would not automatically be nominated for naval contracts for shipbuilding and that they would have to compete with private Indian defence companies from January, 2011, as per a defence production policy being prepared by the ministry of

While the Opposition cries itself hoarse seeking a probe by a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) into the Adarsh housing society scam, the government on Wednesday rejected this demand saying that there are a large number of similar housing estates in different parts of the country.

The issue of corruption, including that of 2-G scam, Adarsh Society controversy and Commonwealth Games (CWG) on Wednesday rocked both the Houses of Parliament.
As soon as the two Houses met for the day, Opposition members led by the BJP did not allow the Question Hour by trooping into the well raising slogans, leading to adjournment till noon.

The stage has been cleared for the impeachment proceedings against Calcutta high court Justice Soumitra Sen in Parliament.
The first-ever impeachment initiated against a judge — V Ramaswami, who retired as an SC judge in 1994 — failed after the motion collapsed on the floor of the Lok Sabha in 1993 following abstentions by the Congress.

While the Congress has decided to replace the Maharashtra chief minister, there is a major division in the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on whether to replace the deputy chief minister as well or not.

Classical flute exponent Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia was today conferred the “Chevalier dans l’ Ordre des Arts et des Lettres”, the highest civilian award by the French government for his contribution to music. The flute maestro was honoured at the French embassy in New Delhi.

Defence Minister A.K. Antony on Tuesday ordered a CBI probe into the Adarsh land scam in Mumbai. This was ordered after his ministry completed the process of examining reports submitted on the Adarsh issue by the Army, Navy and defence estates department.