President Pratibha Patil has rejected the city Lokayukta’s recommendation to sack Delhi PWD minister Raj Kumar Chauhan for his alleged involvement in protecting a leading resort in a tax evasion case.

The Mumbai attack trial in a US court resumed on Tuesday with co-accused David Headley testifying that Al Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri had a plan to kill CEO of Lockheed Martin in frustration over drone attacks along the Af-Pak border.

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, human resource development minister Kapil Sibal and two other ministers met Baba Ramdev at the Delhi airport on Wednesday in a bid to persuade the yoga guru to call off his proposed fast from June 4 against corruption and black money stashed abroad, activists in the movement said.

Lawyer Ram Jethmalani’s Kashmir Committee is arriving here on a five-day visit from Thursday to renew its effort seeking “an enduring solution to the Kashmir problem” by meeting various stakeholders, including separatist and mainstream political leaders.

Worried over Baba Ramdev’s threat to go on fast, the government on Wednesday took the unprecedented step of sending three senior ministers to receive the yoga guru at the airport here in a bid to persuade him not to go ahead with the protest.

Political equations in Maharashtra appear to be changing, with dalits, especially neo-Buddhists, refusing to remain a vote bank of either one party or a front after realising that they failed to get their due even after remaining with the parties in power.

Veteran Congress leader N.D. Tiwari on Wednesday refused to appear in a Delhi high court dispensary to give his blood sample for DNA test to ascertain a youth’s claim of being his biological son, saying that he cannot be forced to do so.

Panun Kashmir, an outfit of expatriate Kashmiri Pandits, has ridiculed Union minister for renewable energy and National Conference president Farooq Abdullah’s plea that India should help Pakistan in fighting terror. “Pakistan continues to export terror and India has been the main recipient. It is naïve to suggest the victim should try to help

The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its verdict on a petition by Sikkim High Court Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran challenging the framing of charges by the Judges Inquiry Committee (JIC)

Delhi International Airport Limited (Dial), the operator of IGI airport, is offering “park and fly” facility to the passengers flying out of Terminal 3. “The passengers would have the convenience of parking their cars for an extended number of days at the multi-level car parking (MLCP), when they fly out of T3,” a DIAL spokesperson said.