After admitting students much beyond their actual capacity, some colleges in the Delhi University now face space crunch in arranging classes. The solution? It might be that one may see classes taking place in college canteen, auditorium or even the sports room.

Much to the disappointment of the Delhi police, a court here has dismissed its plea to issue non-bailable warrant against a suspected active member of Indian Mujahideen alleged to have helped some modules involved in 2008 serial blasts to flee India after Batla House encounter.

The issue of the formation of Telangana state has entered a decisive phase. It could be taken any time, the Congress indicated on Friday evening after the core group meeting held here.

Ticked off by their respective party leaderships, BJP and Congress leaders who had crossed the party line are now in a rollback mode. But despite BJP MP Chandan Mitra and Congress MP Raj Babbar expressing “regret” for their recent remarks, AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh stunned the Congress leadership when he went on to describe his own party colleague Meenakshi Natarajan on Thursday as “100 per cent tunch maal”.

The issue of the formation of Telangana state has entered a decisive phase. It could be taken any time, the Congress indicated on Friday evening after the core group meeting held here.

Making a strong pitch to finalise the mega-deal for acquisition of 126 Medium Multi-role Combat Aircraft between India and France’s Dassault, possibly worth around $17 billion, French defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian sought to address India’s security concerns by criticising the presence and “concentration of terrorist elements” in nuclear-armed Pakistan, adding that “the alleged handlers of the Mumbai attacks still roam free”.

With a meeting of the Foreign Investment Promotion Board expected to take place on July 29 to discuss the Jet-Etihad FDI deal, Jet Airways is understood to be considering several options, including a marginal reduction in the number of Etihad representatives on the Jet Airways board, assuring the government that Mumbai would be the “place of business” where crucial decisions would be taken.

Already reeling under price rise, Delhiites will now have to shell out five per cent more for electricity consumption, after the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) hiked the power tariff on Friday. The revised rates will be applicable from August 1, 2013. A new slab of 401-800 units has also been introduced.

The Congress is relying on its Union ministers to revive the organisation in Uttar Pradesh ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. The AICC has allotted 12 districts each to six ministers hoping that they would deliver this time.

Three-time MP Arun Nehru, who died on Thursday night at a Gurgaon Hospital following prolonged illness, was a corporate bigwig before taking the plunge into politics in 1980 at the behest of Indira Gandhi.