With Bihar elections approaching, the Centre on Thursday set the ball rolling for the setting up of Nalanda University in the state by giving its nod for the presentation of a bill relating to this in the Monsoon Session of Parliament.

Women in the capital of Delhi feel unsafe at all time and in all places, says a study conducted by the Delhi government’s department of women and child development along with some NGO’s.

In keeping with its promise to further ameliorate the condition of the country’s minorities, particularly Muslims, the government has approved a Rs 500 crore increase in the authorised share capital of the National Minorities Development Finance Corporation.

A 27-year-old newly married pregnant woman died under mysterious circumstances in Krishna Nagar area on Wednesday night.
The family members of deceased have alleged that she was ill-treated by her in-laws and harassed for dowry. A case has been registered with Krishna Nagar police station and an SDM inquiry has been ordered into the incident.

Iran has offered to sign a bilateral investment protection treaty with India and invited Indian corporates to invest in refineries and power plants that are likely to be disinvested.

Faced with the prospects of being thrashed for the second time by a teacher, a Class 6 student of Mother Teresa school in east Delhi allegedly attempted to commit suicide by jumping from the second floor of school building on Thursday morning.

Vice-president Mr Hamid Ansari on Thursday asked if the current electoral system encourages a politics defined by “who you are” and “where you live” rather than “what you believe in” and “what you want to achieve”? And what can be done to address the grievance of under-representation and unequal access to political power emanating from the Muslims? The data is compelling and disturbing, he observed.

A Delhi court on Thursday awarded the death sentence to the domestic help of an elderly woman for murdering her and her 12-year-old grandson in 2007 in the Vasant Kunj neighbourhood of south Delhi.

As the party has decided to go alone in UP, the Congress is working on a two-prong strategy to face the electoral battle in the state in 2012. First the party has been working on a few of the smaller caste-parties including RLD, Apna Dal and Peace Party to merge them with the Congress. It has also laid out a comprehensive plan to prepare a detailed chargesheet relating to “institutionalised corruption” against Mayawati government in the state.

The first burst of monsoon has made the civic agencies re-think about their tall claims of finishing the Commonwealth Games-2010 related projects by July 15. The new deadline has been pushed further by a fortnight. A visit to the trans-Yamuna areas by two Delhi government ministers — A.K. Walia and Arvinder Singh Lovely — revealed that a lot of work on street-scaping and removing the construction debris was to be done.