The Tis Hazari Court additional sessions judge (ASJ) on Friday rapped the Delhi police for allegedly failing to submit forensic reports in connection with the cases relating to the 2008 serial blasts in the city and sought an explanation for the delay from a senior police officer.

Exposing the poor state of infrastructure in the city, a stretch of Vikas Marg caved in on Friday morning. The officials said that an underground pipe burst caused the cave in of about 20-foot stretch.

With just eight days to go for the opening of the Commonwealth Games here, chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday made all her Cabinet colleagues in-charge of select areas across the capital. The ministers have been asked to oversee infrastructure preparedness and ensure that corrective measures are taken wherever required.

With security agencies failing to take over and lock down the Commonwealth Games Village and venues even on Thursday, the ministry of home affairs (MHA) has cracked the whip and told the Organising Committee and other authorities concerned to complete the work at the venues by Friday midnight, so that they can be handed over to the Delhi police by Saturday morning.

A cautious government on Friday extended the ban on bulk SMS and MMS till September 30 to prevent any misuse of this technology to spread rumours or hateful messages in wake of Ayodhya case to be taken by courts next week.

Slamming the Delhi police for its handling of the sensational cash-for-queries scam, the Delhi high court on Friday said, “The police seem to have acted as ‘his master’s voice’ of persons in power when it registered the FIR against the middleman and the petitioners and one or two other persons, sparing a large number of MPs whose

Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam(MDMK) general secretary Vaiko on Friday lambasted the DMK government in Tamil Nadu for ignoring the security threats to the All India Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s(AIADMK) supremo J. Jayalalitha.

A day after RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav introduced his son Tejaswi to politics, his close aide and Buxar MP Jagadanand Singh’s son quit the party and joined Bihar’s ruling BJP on Friday, calling the RJD’s 15-year regime the state’s “black chapter”.

AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh on Friday made it clear that R.C. Tripathi, the petitioner in the high court and the Supreme Court seeking to defer the judgement on the Ayodhya title suit, has nothing to do with the party.

Lauding young party general secretary Rahul Gandhi for his comments on Ayodhya dispute, the Congress on Friday said the leader’s take on the issue reflected the aspirations of a large section of the youth in India.