The government doesn’t seem inclined to hike the fee for undergraduate studies in the IITs as suggested by an expert committee. Human resource development minister Kapil Sibal is reported to have rejected the suggestion on raising fee made by it during a meeting of the IIT Council in the capital on Friday saying that this would act as a “deterrent”.

High blood pressure or hypertension is slowly but surely taking the present generation towards clogged arteries and kidney problems.

Kashmir’s chief Muslim cleric and chairman of his faction of Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has refused to meet the Centre’s interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir on the plea that none of the proposals submitted to the government following a series of meetings the conglomerate leadership had with the Prime Minister between 2004 and 2006 were conceded to by it.

Security forces have stepped up vigil in Jammu and Kashmir following infiltration attempts by cross border outfits and the proposed BJP’s “Ekta Yatra” where the party plans to hoist the tricolour in Srinagar’s Lal Chowk area on Republic Day.

Accusing the chief minister Omar Abdullah of “siding with the separatists with his insolent statements vis-à-vis tricolour”, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) on Friday continued to maintain its defiant stance of “no change in the plan” of flag hoisting at Lal Chowk on Republic Day, however, the former (Omar) reiterated that no one would be allowed “to vitiate the atmosphere and the separatists also fall under this purview.”

A day after the Australian firms threatened to file a lawsuit on delays in payments related to the CWG, Indian music company T-Series has filed a legal suit complaining that the OC violated copyright norms by using the songs for the event without paying for it or taking the copyright from them. The company has filed a claim of `1 crore.

After Australia, now it is Britain asking for payment due to a private company for services rendered during the Commonwealth Games.
British high commissioner to India, Richard Stagg has asked for expediting payment of `96 crores to British broadcaster SIS Live, under its contract with Prasar Bharati for coverage of the Games.

The high-level Shunglu Committee (HLC), headed by former Comptroller-and-Auditor-General (CAG) V.K. Shunglu, appointed by the government to look into the allegations of corruption in the Commonwealth Games 2010 in Delhi, on Friday put out the list of 2,100 persons appointed by the Organising Committee and sought more information on these individuals.

The CBI probe into the alleged irregularities in overlays contracts has revealed that certain “foreign nationals” allegedly played the role of middlemen between the Organising Committee members and the overseas firms whose Indian consortiums had bagged the contracts.

Telecom minister Kapil Sibal on Friday said that his comments on the CAG report was just to put forth government’s view on the issue before the general public as it was not getting an opportunity to do so in Parliament and he had no intention to show disrespect to any institution.