“I am ready for another fight,” Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit said today as she prepares to lead the Congress for an unprecedented fourth term when assembly elections are held in November this year.

Stressing the need for strengthening the juvenile justice system, Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir today said the country could face chaos if it does not provide adequate protection and care to children, especially those in conflict with law.

The Supreme Court will hear tomorrow a plea of Sunil Bharti Mittal, CMD of Bharti Cellular Limited, against his summoning as an accused in a corruption case related to allocation of additional 2G spectrum in 2002.

Pervez Musharraf’s nomination papers for a parliamentary constituency in the port city of Karachi were rejected today while his papers for another seat in northern Pakistan were accepted by election authorities.

Terming as “grossly inadequate” the current judge to population ratio, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today assured chief ministers of more central funds for creation of infrastructure for subordinate judiciary to address the issue of pendency of over three crore cases.

Market regulator Sebi has incurred initial costs of more than Rs 55 crore in its humongous task of facilitating Rs 24,000 crore refund to bondholders of two Sahara firms after verifying their credentials and Saharas would have to clear all these bills.

Seeking to further simplify the foreign investment regime, the government on Saturday came out with revised consolidated guidelines on FDI that incorporate changes with regard to inflows in multi-brand retail and allow Pakistani nationals and companies to invest in India. A Pakistani citizen or an entity can now invest in the country under the government approval route.

US President Barack Obama has apologised to Kamala Harris, the California attorney-general, for his comment in which he described the Indian-American as the best-looking attorney-general of America — which many here alleged was a sexist remark.

Finance minister P. Chidambaram on Saturday made a strong case for reviewing the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) ceiling in various sectors saying they were fixed long ago.

Scientists have measured super-sensitive crocodilian facial nerves to better understand how today’s animals, as well as dinosaurs and crocodiles that lived millions of years ago, interact with their environment.