Four days after the Commonwealth Games got over and a day after all the athletes and delegates left, the process of handing over of the Commonwealth Games Village back to the DDA began on Monday. The DDA will be taking up possession of around 700 flats out of a total of 1,168 flats, while the rest will go to the private builder EMAAR-MGF for further disposal.

The Blueline buses will stay off city roads for another week, with the Delhi government exploring ways to phase them out. In a move to decongest city roads, the city government had ordered the Blueline buses to stay off roads ahead of the Commonwealth Games.

In a move intended at making use of the stadia and the sports facilities put in place for the Commonwealth Games and to popularise sports culture in the capital, the Delhi Cabinet on Monday discussed a proposal to set up a sports academy in the city.

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit is learnt to have asked all departments of the city government to keep relevant documents ready and to “fully cooperate” in the inquiry with investigators, after the Prime Minister ordered a probe into the Commonwealth Games corruption and the Comptroller and Auditor General also having begun its audit.

Expelled Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh has apologised to Muslims for being a mute spectator to Mulayam Singh Yadav’s friendship with former BJP leader Kalyan Singh.

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Monday sought an immediate sanction of `2,351 crores from the Centre for flood relief in the state. Ms Mayawati, who met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday evening, claimed that the Centre has not provided any assistance to the state for flood relief so far.

With a wafer-thin majority in the Legislative Assembly, will chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa be able to pursue his avowed agenda of development?
On a day when the Karnataka high court prolonged uncertainty by handing a split verdict of the crucial issue of disqualification of 11 rebel BJP legislators, Mr Yeddyurappa said he would chant the mantra of development and refrain from commenting on dirty politics of Opposition parties. He told mediapersons in Mysore that henceforth

In a bid to give a tit-for-tat treatment to Bihar chief minister and JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar, the BJP has decided not to take his name during campaigning during the state Assembly elections.

The government has decided to do away with the optional paper in the civil services preliminary examination and instead replace it with two compulsory papers. The changes have been brought in after 30 years. From next year, there will be no optional paper in the civil services preliminary examination and candidates will have to sit

Giving a fresh twist to the controversy surrounding Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Tayyaba terrorist David Coleman Headley, government officials here questioned why the US authorities did not share Headley’s name with Indian agencies despite two of his wives forewarning the FBI of terror attacks in India prior to 26/11. The officials were wondering whether the US authorities had deliberately withheld Headley’s name to conceal his former identity as an undercover agent for a US agency.