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.

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.

The Supreme Court Thursday cancelled the allotment of a 1.2-acre plot to cricketer Sourav Gangula in Kolkata’s Salt Lake Sector 5 area, saying the “discretionary quota” allotment by the state’s former Left Front government for a proposed school did not “meet the requirement of the law”.

Yet another BSP MLA has landed in the centre of controversy. A 15-year-old girl, allegedly abducted 13 days ago and recovered on Wednesday, accused the brother of a BSP MLA, Muslim Khan, of running a sex racket that was being patronised by the MLA himself. The girl, while talking to reporters in Badaun, alleged that Akram, brother of

Expressing its displeasure over the delay in construction of half-way homes for mentally challenged women in the city, a Delhi HC division bench comprising Justices A.K. Sikri and Ajit Bharihoke directed the city government to complete the formalities for approving the action plan expeditiously.

The BJP top-brass on Thursday indicated that it was not happy with its Uttarakhand chief minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank’s way of functioning and after the Assembly polls in the state his fate would be decided by the party’s MLAs. However, there would be no leadership change in the state for now.

The sudden appearance of clouds accompanied by strong winds in the afternoon brought respite from scorching heat on Thursday. Thundershowers and rains are expected on Friday, the weatherman said.

The Congress is not attaching much importance to the recent statements by senior party leaders R.K. Dhawan, Vasant Sathe and C.K. Jaffer Sharief on Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Vadra, viewing this as nothing but a “calling attention” or “private member business”.

Despite sincere efforts by the party high command to quell dissent in the UP Congress, factionalism and infighting rears its head at regular intervals.

The plea of former Youth Congress president and chairman of All-India Anti-Terrorist Front, Maninderjit Singh Bitta, for security cover by the elite National Security Guards (NSG) commandos was dismissed by the Delhi high court.
While dismissing Mr Bitta’s plea for NSG cover for himself and his family members, Justice S. Muralidhar