After hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) of an academician, who sought making yoga a part of the health and physical education in schools, a division bench comprising Delhi high court Chief Justice Dipak Mishra and Justice Manmohan on Wednesday issued notice to the ministry of human resource development (HRD) and the NCERT seeking their replies by September 22.

Union minister of state for communications and IT, Gurudas Kamat on Wednesday met environment minister Jairam Ramesh and strongly pleaded for the clearance of Navi Mumbai International Airport. Mr Ramesh is expected to visit Mumbai at the end of this month for a on-the-spot study of the problems faced in re-development of the

A portion of the Writers’ Buildings, including chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s chamber plunged into darkness for around 15 minutes in the afternoon due to a snag in one of the transformers at the state secretariat.

Chandrayaan-II project, expected to be launched in 2011, is being designed to ensure the failures that afflicted Chandrayaan-I will not surface in this newer venture. Minister of science & technology Prithviraj Chavan told the Lok Sabha. that Chandrayaan-II will be receiving major technological inputs from Russia.

Manoj Mahato, the newly-elected secretary of the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA), announced on Wednesday that the PCPA being a “non-violent and apolitical outfit” will also be present in the Lalgarh rally on August 9 where Union railway minister Mamata Banerjee, human rights activist Medha Patkar and social activist Swami Agnivesh will be present.

Shifting the onus on service providers, offering BlackBerry services through their networks, the government on Wednesday said that it is the responsibility of service providers like Airtel, Vodafone and BSNL to give access to security agencies to monitor information on smart phones.

The CPI(M) satraps who have landed in a soup after giving a miss to the first death anniversary of party leader Subhas Chakraborty following the whip from party general secretary Prakash Karat on Tuesday, have decided to mark the 122nd birth anniversary of party founder-member Muzaffar Ahmed on Thursday with all renewed zeal.

Making Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh point in case for failing the country to achieve desired total fertility rate (TFR), health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday said, population growth was a matter of “serious concern”, as it had an adverse impact on the available national resources.

Serious disaffection has surfaced in the state Congress only weeks after the appointment of Manas Bhunia as the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) president. Over half a dozen former Congress district presidents left for Delhi to lodge their protest over their unceremonious removal. “We will meet Congress president Mrs Sonia Gandhi and AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi and apprise them of our grievances,” former Nadia district president Shankar Singh said.

The tussle between the states of Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh over Babhali project affected the proceedings of the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. The Speaker was forced to adjourn the House twice over the issue.