After pleas for early clearance to the long-pending Navi Mumbai airport project, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said he would personally look into the issue to resolve the matter at the earliest.

Harassed and tired of trying to get your legitimate work done by an unresponsive government department or ministry.

J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday hinted at a political solution of the Kashmir problem by the Centre in the coming days. “The Union government is actively working for a political solution,” he said, expressing the hope that an “amicable and peaceful” settlement would not be too far off.

Among the country’s top politicians, AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi appears the most popular on the Internet. The young leader has an ever-increasing fan base on the social networking website Facebook, with 68,198 followers. In this, he has beaten PM Manmohan Singh, veteran BJP leader L.K. Advani and even his mother Sonia Gandhi.

At a time when all civic agencies in New Delhi are in a race against time to complete Commonwealth Games-related projects, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday visited Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, the key venue of the October 3-14 event and the location of both the opening and closing ceremonies, and exhorted all agencies to redouble their efforts and finish the work still remaining. The stadium will also host the athletics, weightlifting and lawn bowl events.

Senior BJP leader L.K. Advani on Sunday claimed that he liked “realistic depiction of village life” in Amir Khan’s home production Peepli Live. However, he said it would have been better if the filmmaker had chosen a subject other than farmers’ suicide.

Even as the RJD and the Congress have stepped up their attacks on the BJP on the issue of communalism and “saffron terrorism,” the BJP leadership in Bihar is ignoring such attacks and focusing on how to convert the public goodwill for its coalition government’s development work into votes.

The controversial Ayodhya issue is all set to dominate the national discourse, once again, very soon as a special bench of the Allahabad high court is to deliver a verdict over the ownership of a disputed land in Ayodhya to which Hindus and Muslims have made rival claims for over a century.

The MCD will not be taking care of preventive measures for mosquito breeding in the Common-wealth Games Village for which the organising committee has decided to give the contract to the Pest Control of India (PCI). However, the MCD will work towards mosquito breeding prevention in and around all other Games venues. Meanwhile, the total number of dengue cases in the capital crossed the 800-mark, including cases of patients coming from outside the state.

The Delhi high court has asked the authorities concerned to amend certain rules for the rehabilitation of ex-convicts so that they can join government jobs and join the mainstream.