Information pertaining to appointment of top bureaucrats cannot be revealed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, the Delhi high court has said.
The court dismissed the RTI activist and Magsaysay Award winner Arvind Kejriwal’s plea seeking disclosure of information on the ground that people had the right to know as to what was the grade assigned to an officer who was empanelled.

The decomposing bodies of an elderly couple lay in their home for five days and were only discovered after a foul stench began emanating from their Jawahar Nagar, Goregaon (west) apartment.

A day after reports of the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) alleging poor quality and deviation from norms in various Games-related projects, the civic agencies sought to downplay the entire issue saying it was part of routine exercise between the commission and them. The CVC too put out a clarification on its website saying the reports regarding various CWG projects were initial findings and should not be construed as final report.

The Delhi BJP on Thursday demanded from chief minister Sheila Dikshit that she should sack state revenue minister Raj Kumar Chauhan immediately after the commissioner of Commercial Taxes Jalaj Srivastava testified against the minister.

Whether the NIA will have any better success with the Samjhauta probe than Haryana’s SIT is still to be seen, if and when the case gets to the stage of a court trial, but Indian prosecutors will have to considerably rely on the testimony of Usman Mohammad — a Pakistan passenger who saved dozens of lives by throwing out a suitcase that later proved to be the third bomb.

Delhi University vice-chancellor Prof. Deepak Pental has clarified that the implementation of semester system is not subjudice and that it remains in force as announced at all times. He also warned the teaching community to implement the semester system or else action will be taken against the erring ones.

Giving a timeline for overcoming the growing Naxal menace in the country, home minister P. Chidambaram assured parliamentarians that the problem of Left-Wing extremism would be overcome in the next three years.

So far, not satisfied with the Commonwealth Games preparations, security heads of 31 participating nations, including Pakistan, on Thursday visited the Commonwealth Games sites to have a look at the security arrangements. To add to the woes, only eight security heads of the Commonwealth nations have so far confirmed their

Beginning with the ceremonial Guard of Honour at Rashtrapati Bhavan, British Prime Minister David Cameron had a packed schedule throughout Thursday, visiting Commonwealth Games village, the National Stadium, besides paying homage to the Father of the Nation at Rajghat. He did not visit the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, the main venue for the Commonwealth Games.

In a bizarre incident, a 42-year-old woman was allegedly strangulated by her domestic help, who had been working in her household for over 15 years, early on Thursday. The incident was reported from Sunlight Colony in southeast Delhi.