Five schoolchildren and a driver were injured when a radio taxi rammed into a school van near Savitri flyover in south Delhi on Thursday morning.

Two persons, including a senior government official and a tourist from Bengalaru, have been killed and scores of civilians were injured when caught in a massive snow avalanches and landslides near the 17,350-feet-high Chang La (pass) in eastern Ladakh.

NCP chief Sharad Pawar is unlikely to attend the first anniversary celebrations of UPA-2 in New Delhi on May 22 as he is abroad but Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee is said to have finally agreed to grace the occasion.

The 3G auction may spell good news for the government, but the successful players now have a tough job at hand. They need to visibly show that the money spent on acquiring the new licenses was well spent. Even before the auction had started, several analysts tracking the sector had raised the prospect of over-bidding – or winner’s

With an aim to literate 70 million people over the next few years, Union human resource development minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday asked the Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs) to formulate an action plan for participating in literacy programme “Saakshar Bharat”.

The much-awaited transfers of senior Indian Administrative Services officers were declared by the chief minister’s Secretariat on Wednesday evening. As many as 28 IAS officers have been transferred.

With Wednesday’s blood bath on Dalal Street that saw the Sensex swoon 467 points on the German blitzkreig, the Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark index has fallen 1,639 points from its high of 18,047 on April 7, a drop of 10 per cent.

The government has decided to enhance security at the 51 major airports in the country to thwart any possible terror attack. The Union home ministry on Wednesday directed the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) to ensure installation of CCTV cameras in vital locations at all airports, deployment of adequate security staff and raising of perimeter wall. The home ministry has also directed the BCAS to install enough watch towers at all 51 major airports.

Even as the mercury in the city came down by nearly four degrees from Tuesday, the city residents continued to face powercuts. The discoms had to resort to load shedding largely on account of overdrawal from states and also due to the closure of the 220 KV unit of Badarpur Power Thermal Station for a Delhi Metro project.

Astral Flash, Sprint Star and Athabasca Star excelled when the following horses were exercised here on Wednesday.