Giving immediate relief to the Travancore royal family, which opposes opening of the mysterious “Cellar-B” of Kerala’s Padman-abha Swamy Temple, from where fabulous riches were discovered some time back, the Supreme Court declined to pass any order in this regard.

The Delhi BJP criticised the government for making false promises whenever an election approaches. The Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly, Vijay Kumar Malhotra, in a statement said that whenever elections approaches in Delhi, the chief minister becomes restless and start making promises to misguide the

Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, one of India’s most charismatic cricketers and a legendary batsman, passed away here on Thursday after battling a severe lung infection for the last few months, creating a void in the field of sports.

Keeping its promise to protesters campaigning against the Koodankulam nuclear power project, the Tamil Nadu Cabinet, at a meeting chaired by chief minister J. Jayalalithaa, adopted a resolution Thursday urging Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to halt the commissioning of the Koodankulam nuclear plant until people’s fears are allayed.

The Delhi police has claimed to have solved the murder case of a businessman who was killed on August 26 in Kirti Nagar. The victim was allegedly a homosexual that led to his murder and the police has arrested two persons in this connection.

Four workers were charred to death and 12 others received serious burn injuries when a fire broke out in a textile company at Dombivali on Thursday morning. Binayak Textiles in the industrial township of Dombivali processes cloth and employs 200 workers. At the time of the incident, there were 67 workers working in the night shift.

Global stock markets were hit by a tsunami of selling as investors fled from the equity and commodities markets around the world and sought safe haven in the strong dollar after the US Fed on Wednesday warned of a slowdown in the US economy. The Fed also failed to pump money directly into the limp US economy

Three victims of the Delhi high court blast have not yet got the ex-gratia announced by the Delhi government. The government is still unable to identify the kin of the deceased. The government officials said that the ex-gratia was immediately given to the next to kin of 12 deceased as all of them were direct dependants but in these three cases, the officials are not able to find direct dependants.

Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, who was 70 when he passed away in a New Delhi hospital on Thursday evening after suffering complications in his lungs, was one of Indian cricket’s great stylists. Having lost most of the vision in his right eye in a car accident, he adapted to become a fearless batsman against pace bowling in home as well as away Tests.

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has alleged that around 950 water pipelines in Delhi have been identified as passing out through drains.
The MCD Medical Relief and Public Health Committee chairman V.K. Monga wrote to the NHRC chairperson Justice K.G. Balakrishnan seeking his