The high court has said that the reputation of the accused before committing crime should not be considered while adjudicating criminal cases when evidence is against them.

Utsav Bhasin, accused of ramming his BMW car into a motorcycle killing a man in 2008, may get life imprisonment.

Indian War Memorial Museum at Red Fort is all set to be shifted to more spacious building within the historic Red Fort.

The Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) is likely to announce the power tariff for 2010-11 in the next week, which may give the consumers some reprieve from high electricity charges.

The government, it seems, has not learnt any lessons from the 2009 drought, which adversely impacted rice production, even as kharif crop sowing for 2010 has started.
The 2009 drought reduced rice production by around 16 million tonnes and forced the government to take a hard look at the national food security bill it was planning to introduce in Parliament.

The Delhi high court on Friday set aside the Union government’s decision to de-recognise the Indian Hockey Federation and fined the ministry of sports and youth affairs and the Indian Olympic Association Rs 10,000 each over the issue.

Though the government claims it has sufficient stocks of rice (255 lakh tonnes against a buffer need of 138 lakh tonnes), the world’s second-largest rice-producing nation cannot afford to be complacent, especially when it is planning to make right to food an entitlement for the poor, said experts.

Market-driven agricultural research is the need of the hour to ensure livelihood security in rural areas.
“It requires optimisation, efficiency and transparency in the operational system,” said Planning Commission member, K. Kasturirangan at a meet on “Technological Innovations in Agriculture” on Friday.

With foreign educational institutions likely to enter the country’s education sector soon, Union human resource development minister Kapil Sibal on Friday sought to dispel fears about IIT faculties joining foreign institutes. He stated that the teachers are “patriotic” enough not to sell their conscience for a little bit of money.