A young woman was allegedly molested in Tilak Marg area on Wednesday evening by two inebriated drivers travelling in chief minister Sheila Dikshit’s pilot car.

The BJP national executive, which begins here on Friday, will target the UPA government on the issue of corruption and inflation, on one hand, and the misrule of the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh on the other.

A student with an admission form at St. Stephen’s College on Delhi University’s North Campus on Thursday. PHOTO: Biplab Banerjee

A comparison has begun between Baba Ramdev and Anna Hazare in the political circles after the two have virtually shaken the government on the issues of black money and corruption. Their action plan suggest that political parties in power and outside, lack the determination to correct the system.

In yet another package designed to take the wind out of the Congress campaign on Bhatta Parsaul, UP chief minister Mayawati has announced that all those arrested in connection with the May 7 violence will be released and adequate compensation will be paid to those who had suffered loss of property. In a statement released late on

In an attempt to built pressure on the government for conceding the civil society’s demand to bring the office of the Prime Minister and Chief Justice of India and the other judges under the ambit of the Lokpal, the representatives of the civil society have cited previous commitments given by both NDA government and the UPA-I to this effect and

In a bid to address the feeling of alienation often expressed by the people in Northeast, the UPA government has decided to bring higher judiciary closer to the common man in the region. The government is contemplating to set up three new high courts in the region, aimed at expansion of judicial access for the region and fulfilling the decades old demand.

The BJP has announced its support to Baba Ramdev’s ongoing campaign against corruption.
In an informal chat with reporters here on Thursday, BJP president Nitin Gadkari said that “corruption” was a film being produced by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

It seems all is not well within the so-called moderate faction of the separatist Hurriyat Conference alliance even after it revoked its earlier decision suspending one of its founding constituents, Jammu and Kashmir Itehad-ul-Muslimeen, over its patron moulvi Abbas Ansari’s holding a meeting with the Centre’s interlocutors in April 2011.

Six months after settling back in power armed with a massive mandate, the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government in Bihar is now finding itself increasingly under political attacks due to the inappropriate behaviour of some of its ministers and MLAs and taking cautious steps at corrections.