Prime Minister Manmohan Singh took strong note of the “slippages” in preparations for the 19th Commonwealth Games, handing overriding powers in matters concerning the Games to a committee headed by Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrasekhar after a meeting here on Saturday.

Beginning Saturday, the city is left with only 50 days to prepare itself for the Games. And barring the exception of the Games village to an extent, none of the other projects seem to be in place.

The Delhi police’s special cell on Saturday arrested two more men for alleged links with the banned Manipuri Terrorist Outfit, Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL), from undisclosed location in the city. With the arrests, police officers have also seized two laptops, two mobile phones and 20 demand letters of KYKL. The accused, identified

With market places, railway stations and airports placed under heavy surveillance, Delhi on Saturday turned into a fortress on the eve of India’s 64th Independence Day. Thousands of policemen and troopers were deployed at the Red Fort — the main celebrations venue.

The secretary of Maoist-backed People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA), Manoj Mahato on Friday urged the people of Jangalmahal to vote against the CPI(M) in the forthcoming Assembly polls.

Deeply embarrassed by railway minister Mamata Banerjee’s pro-Maoist speech in Lalgarh on August 9, the UPA government has sought an explanation from her. Sources said that parliamentary affairs minister Pawan Bansal has spoken to Ms Banerjee over the phone requesting her to make a statement in Parliament over her speech in Lalgarh rally.

The government on Friday said there is a need to check whether there were “ulterior motives” behind the claim that a drug-resistant superbug had been traced to India.
Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said, “The reasoning that has been given was that the patients went from India and Pakistan to London. But this has not been m

Majority of orphanages in Kerala were becoming breeding centres of religious fundamentalism, an official committee has warned in its report submitted to the government.

In a sad commentary on the manner in which the country’s sportspersons are treated, a Lok Sabha MP complained in the House that 15 players who went to participate in the World Shooting Championship in Munich recently had to foot their travel bills.

An alleged Ravi Pujari aide held a Chembur builder’s wife and maid captive for nearly two hours, before being shot dead by the police on Friday morning.
According to the Chembur police, Vijay Bhatija, who runs a construction business, was at home with his family when Pujari aide, Anand Dengre, reached his residence at Kaveri society in Chembur.