The Delhi BJP will stage a dharna on Parliament Street in New Delhi on the issue of alleged financial bungling in the Games projects.
Delhi BJP president Vijender Gupta and a senior leader Madan Lal Khurana said that the manner in which the preparations were going on would lower the image of the country before the Commonwealth nations that are supposed to participate in the event.

The Ghaziabad administration has decided to conduct an inquiry into the allegations that untreated industrial waste is allegedly being discharged into Ramsar fresh water site that contains Ganga water. The site, located in western UP, has been set up to protect water bodies from getting contaminated due to heavy discharge of industrial pollutants.

The south Delhi police has registered a case under sections 363 (kidnapping) and 511 (attempt to commit offences which attract life punishment) of the Indian Penal Code against two Nigerian nationals following allegations that one of them tried to kidnap a child from a locality in Mehrauli area on Friday evening.

The Army has ordered a Court of Inquiry that will probe the alleged breach of cyber communication norms (for armed forces personnel) by a Major posted in the Andamans, who was being probed earlier for alleged transfer of information from his computer to a computer in Pakistan. Army sources, however, said on Friday that the

There will be no bulletproof buses to ferry athletes and delegates, travelling to and from the Commonwealth Games venues and the Games Village or other accommodations, the Delhi police has said. However, adequate security arrangements would be put in place to ensure top class security. The bulletproof security was demanded by Pakistani security delegation in the wake of the Lahore bus attack in March 2009.

The Bofors 155 mm artillery towed gun has lost out yet again in India. In a setback to the Army’s modernisation programme, the ministry of defence (MoD) has cancelled the entire “request for proposal” (RFP) process for acquisition of 155 mm towed artillery guns and has initiated a fresh “request for information” (RFI), defence sources have said.

Amid pressure from various quarters on the Commonwealth Games projects, chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday said that these will the best ever Games. She, however, denied any knowledge of the CVC report, which has indicted various agencies for compromising on quality and not following the norms while completing the projects. But Ms Dikshit added that action would be taken against errant officials when the report would be formally submitted.

In a significant development and for the first time, the authorities in Assam have taken strong action against the students’ organisations indulging in extortion and blackmailing the businessmen and business-establishments of the state.

A day after he told Parliamentarians that the Naxal problem can be overcome within three years, home minister P. Chidambaram said that the timeline of three years was meant to “dispel the notion that it is a matter of weeks or months”.

Ace shuttler and world number two Saina Nehwal was on Friday selected for the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, the country’s highest sporting honour, putting the icing on the cake to her sensational 2010.