The country’s largest prison Tihar jail has now got its own FM radio station. Director-general, prisons, Vimla Mehra on Tuesday launched the “TJ FM Radio” at Central Jail No 4 in the Tihar complex.

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation will increase the frequency, speed and operating hours of the Airport Express Line from Thursday, August 1.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday commenced hearing arguments in the infamous “tandoor” murder case of 1995, in which a plea has been filed by jailed former Youth Congress leader Sushil Sharma challenging his conviction and death sentence for murdering his wife Naina Sahni and trying to burn her body parts in a clay oven.

J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah said in Srinagar that the creation of Telangana state would incentivise agitation. “It is fine that you have to create Telangana, but don’t do it piecemeal. Telangana will be created on the basis of agitation. This way agitations are being incentivised,” he said in Srinagar.

If the Congress claimed credit for the decision to form Telangana, the BJP insisted it would have formed the state during the NDA rule but for opposition from a key ally. The Left cautioned that this may spur more such demands. Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao welcomed the decision to form a separate Telangana state.

The Union home ministry has told the political brass that it will take at least 122 days or four months for creation of the new state of Telangana. This involves a number of steps including adoption of state re-organisation bill by Parliament by a simple majority.

Bimal Gurung on Tuesday resigned as the head of Gorkhaland Territorial Administration immediately after the news came of the Congress Working Committee and UPA partners’ nod for a Telengana state.

The creation of Telangana might bring electoral gains for the Congress, but the move is also likely to witness the resurgence of the banned CPI(Maoist) in the region. It had taken decades of blood bath and encounters to make the Maoists flee the state.

The proposal to create Telangana has surcharged the atmosphere of Assam where powerful All-Bodo Students’ Union (ABSU) on Tuesday threatened to launch vigorous mass movement while another faction led by the president of Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) and chief of Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) Hagrama Mahiliary air dashed to New Delhi to press for their demand of separate Bodoland in Assam.

The human resource development ministry has engaged the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to randomly test samples of food served under the midday meal scheme as part of the plan to check its quality, protein and calorie content.