US assures India of access to Rana
Bracketing the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba alongside top terrorist outfit Al Qaeda and its affiliates, the United States on Friday assured India of access to Lashkar-e-Tayyaba operative Tahawwur Rana, a key accused in the 26/11 terror attack case facing trial in a Chicago court.
MCD faces heat for zoo drain repair delay
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is in the dock for still not having started the repair of the damaged drainage pipes in Delhi Zoo after several black bucks died upon consuming contaminated water that flowed into their enclosures from a drain pipe opening into the Yamuna.
Amar defends Congress on corruption
Lok Manch leader Amar Singh on Friday defended the Congress when he said that it was unjust to blame political parties for the issue of corruption since only a handful of people were responsible for the malaise.
HC directs GTB Hospital to treat boy free of cost
Moved by the plight of a six-year-old boy, who has a blockage in his heart, the Delhi high court on Friday directed G.B. Pant Government Hospital to provide him free treatment.
8 new faces in Gogoi Cabinet
In absence of a large number of senior Congress legislators, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi here on Friday expanded his council of ministers by inducting 18 ministers, including eight new faces.
Govt sends reply to MHA, PMO
The Delhi government on Friday dispatched its reply to the Shunglu Committee report, rejecting all the findings of the panel on alleged bunglings in CWG projects, to the Union home ministry and the Prime Minister’s Office
Techie, cricketer Bihar’s youngest mukhias
Two 22-year-olds have become Bihar’s youngest elected mukhias (village council heads) in the panchayat polls held earlier this month, in which thousands of people below their thirties contested for the first time and many even won, as per the results now coming in. The victories of engineering student Ajay Kumar as the mukhia of
Court fines SHO for non-compliance
The failure to verify whether a robbery case accused was actually dead or was just trying to avoid appearance in the court proved costly for the station house officer (SHO) on whom a Delhi court has imposed a fine of `10,000 for the omission.
BJP shuns Maya hospitality for executive
To protest against the “misrule of the Mayawati government”, the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party has decided not to accept “state guest” status for the dignitaries who will be arriving in Lucknow for the party’s three-day national executive meeting that begins on June 3.
Nothing wrong in Dikshit exit: St. Stephen’s
St. Stephen’s College has defended its decision of removing MP Sandeep Dikshit from the governing body. The college said that Mr Dikshit never accepted the membership so they requested Justice Sanjay Krishan Kaul to be the member.