A day after heavy rain blew away the claims of the civic agencies about preparing the city for the Commonwealth Games 2010, Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday asked the agencies to ensure that waterlogging did not recur. There were also reports that she pulled up the civic agency officials in the morning for the chaos

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the governments of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to revisit the laws providing quota in excess of 50 per cent to reserved categories in government jobs and educational institutions.

Angry residents of northwest Delhi’s Sonia Vihar on Tuesday held protest and set on fire the residences of three men allegedly involved in the murder of a Delhi University student.

In a major relief to the Opposition Telugu Desam Party, the Supreme Court on Tuesday justified the quashing of a case against its government in Andhra Pradesh, registered by the Anti-Corruption Bureau in 2003.

Two students from West Bengal have won the silver and bronze medal respectively for India in the International Mathematics Olympiad 2010 finals held in Kazakhstan. Akashneel Datta from Barrackpore and Satyaki Mukherjee from Durgapur won among the six participants from India.

After a long absence from the capital as is her wont, Union railway minister and Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee is back in the capital. So on Tuesday she had a nearly hour-long meeting with President Pratibha Patil over dinner.

A power cut forced state health minister Suryakanta Mishra to give his speech without the microphone at a programme in R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital (RGKMCH) on Tuesday. This left the medical college authorities red-faced.

The transfer of Chief Justice of Karnataka high court P.D. Dinakaran, who is facing impeachment proceedings in Parliament following allegations of land grabbing and corruption, to the Sikkim high court now appears certain.

In an apparent bid to defy Trinamul Congress, the Congress has decided to organise a public rally at Khejuri in East Midnapore later this July even as the police arrested four Trinamul Congress supporters who had allegedly prevented Youth Congress general secretary Usha Naidu from holding a meeting at Khejuri on Monday.

Eminent economist Willem Buiter was in the capital on Tuesday to attend the Annual India Policy Forum. During his speech at the Shangri-la Hotel, Prof. Willem addressed his views on sovereign debts crisis in the West and the lessons India can learn.