The Congress sees Mr L.K. Advani as a serious candidate of the BJP for prime ministership even as he indicated that he may not be in the race for the top post.
Mr Advani on Wednesday met RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in Nagpur.

A Delhi court on Wednesday granted bail to a US national, arrested two days ago minutes before boarding a Hyderabad flight at the IGI Airport with four live cartridges.

Rajasthan home minister Shanti Dhariwal appears to be on his way out following a report of the Congress’ facts finding team, which visited riot-hit Bharatpur on Monday and submitted its report to the high command.

After the massive hike in the price of petrol, vegetable prices have also shot up in Delhi and the NCR. In the recent hike last week, prices of almost all vegetables shot up from `5 to `20 per kg.

The Opposition on Wednesday demanded home minister P. Chidambaram’s resignation over a finance ministry note to the Prime Minister’s Office on the 2G spectrum case which the Opposition claimed shows the minister’s “complicity”. While the BJP demanded CBI probe against Mr Chidambaram, the CPI sought the Prime Minister’s explanation on the issue.

A case of a minor girl being raped and impregnated by a neighbour came to light when she was taken to a doctor for a check up. In another case, a maid was allegedly raped in Sarita Vihar.

Probe by the CBI in connection with alleged corruption in the Commonwealth games (CWG) has revealed that certain officials of the Organising Committee (OC) allegedly made advance payments, ranging from 50 to 100 per cent, to some contractors even before completion of projects.

The Delhi Metro is planning to open two more stations near the domestic airport on Delhi Metro’s proposed Janakpuri West–Kalindi Kunj corridor to cater to the requirements of the people in the area.

Even after Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai)’s recent report purportedly assessing zero loss in 2G spectrum allocation during the tenure of former communications minister A. Raja, the CBI on Wednesday maintained that report of the telecom regulator will not weaken the case.

For BSP supremo and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati, it was the perfect political salvo to fire — a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking reservation for Muslims — as UP heads into a poll year. After all, with nearly one-fifth of UP’s population belonging to the minority community, Ms Mayawati had decided to wield the perfect political weapon — quotas and, thus, vote-bank politics.