Is the government’s overarching attempt to transform India into a nuclear powerhouse facing a roadblock? With protests against the Koodankulam nuclear project intensifying, the government is now under pressure from Russia to ensure the commissioning of the 1000 Mwe reactors does not get stalled.

Despite the CBI’s virtual attempt in the Supreme Court to “rescue” home minister P. Chidambaram by not investigating his alleged role as finance minister in UPA-1 in “fixing” 2G spectrum prices along with then communications minister A.

The National Envir-onmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) in its report on the oil spill in the aftermath of the collision between MSC Chitra and MV Khalijia III that occurred in August 2010 has estimated damage to the environment to the tune of `525.186 crores.

After hearing a plea of a girl student who was allegedly denied admission in the LLB course despite securing a rank much above the last admitted candidate in the OBC category, Justice Kailash Gambhir of the Delhi high court has sought response from the DU on September 30.

The killing of the former Afghan President and currently chairman of the High Peace Council, Prof. Burhanuddin Rabbani, on Tuesday has been roundly condemned by India.

Had she not been a politician, perhaps you would’ve seen Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit nursing the ill at some healthcare centre. Ms Dikshit says she was so inspired by the life of Forence Nightingale that even she wanted to become a nurse.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh leaves on Wednesday for New York to attend the session of the UN General Assembly after a gap of three years so that his presence at the forum may impart focus and energy to this country’s bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, a key reform of the UN system that India seeks.

A Pakistani national was sentenced to six years in jail by a Delhi court for staying here illegally and spying for his country. Additional Sessions Judge Rajneesh Kumar Gupta convicted 33-year-old Irfan Kausar after it was proved that he was a Pakistani national and was found in possession of several sensitive military documents. The court, however, let off his two other accomplices for lack of evidence.

Delhi health minister Dr A.K. Walia on Tuesday said that a 500-bed new block will be built in the GTB hospital.

On a day when its youth wing activists were observing “Batla House encounter anniversary” and demanding renaming of a road after the slain Delhi police inspector Mohan Chand Sharma, Bharatiya Janata Party’s minority cell incharge J.K. Jain was sitting among members of the Ulema Council who were demanding judicial probe into the encounter.