Home minister P. Chidambharam will make a statement in the Parliament on the situation in the Kashmir valley on Wednesday. While the Centre is weighing various options on how to restore normalcy in the Valley which has been under the grip of tension for the last five days, the Left MPs urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to send a delegation of parliamentarians to assess the situation.

A day after the All-DDA Engineers’ Association went to the press saying that the Vasant Kunj flat projects could not be completed on time, its president was apparently involved in a heated exchange of

The Delhi government has given the deadline of August 10 for clearing all the construction debris. With barely a week left and the MCD contractors on strike, it is going to be a tough ask for the government to meet the deadline.

A class 4 student of an MCD primary school drowned in a rain water filled pit at Kakrola in Najafgarh zone of the corporation on Monday evening. The student had ventured into a complex being used for stacking up building materials and was apparently being used by a private contractor. MCD’s director (primary education) has been asked to conduct an inquiry into the incident.

With attacks on politicians and their kin increasing by the day, the Uttar Pradesh police now plans to set up a separate force for the security of prominent politicians and elected representatives.

The Delhi government has given the deadline of August 10 for clearing all the construction debris. With barely a week left and the MCD contractors on strike, it is going to be a tough ask for the government to meet the deadline.

With divisions persisting on inclusion of caste in the Census, a meeting of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on the ticklish issue is expected to finalise its report on August 6.
All political parties have been asked by the GoM’s chairman Pranab Mukherjee to give their views on the matter by that day and it is still unclear as to how many parties have responded so far.

The police has busted an elaborate scam of siphoning off unsuspecting people’s money, which involved stealing electricity bills and stealing cheques from the drop boxes of automated teller machines (ATM). The fraudsters’ luck ran out when a closed circuit television camera (CCTV) in an ATM captured their faces.

‘BJP’s got talent’ and it doesn’t want to go it waste. Who would have thought that a seasoned politician like Mr L.K. Advani can actually be a good mimic and a flute player or a firebrand leader like Ms Sushma Swaraj was a badminton player and used to love participating in folk dances till her college days?

Praising the recently-implemented landmark Right to Education Act, Nobel Laureate Prof. Amartya Sen on Tuesday stated that the country needs to promote the spread of literacy if it wanted to come in the league of developed nations. He, however, disapproved of India’s policy on Burma.