The standing committee of the MCD on Wednesday approved a 17 to 28 per cent hike in toll tax for commercial vehicles. The rates will apply from mid-May in 2011.
Taxi, tempo, Tata-407 and similar vehicles will pay `45 as toll tax per entry in place of `35. Buses, trucks, Nissan, Tata-709 or canters will pay `85 up from `70. Six-wheel

Karnataka governor H.R. Bhardwaj on Wednesday stepped up his battle against the state government with a disclosure that he has handed over a list of names of corrupt ministers to chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa.

A 20-year-old youth Iqbal, who worked at a store in Maujpur, was stabbed to death in Jafarabad, southwest Delhi, on Tuesday evening.
Iqbalwas going to the shop when assailants intercepted him and asked him to hand over cash. “When he resisted, one assailant stabbed him in the abdomen,” a senior police official said. He was declared brought dead at G.T.B. Hospital.

The Congress party on Wednesday attacked the BJP-led NDA for making Prime Minister Manmohan Singh the target of their attack on the 2G spectrum allocation controversy. “They are paper tigers,” it said and asked the BJP how many corrupt leaders it has been shielding. Dubbing the main Opposition the “Bangaru Judeo Party”,

Surinder Koli, the domestic help of businessman Moninder Singh Pander, was on Wednesday sentenced to death by Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) judge A. K. Singh for a 12-year-old girl’s murder.

The government on Wednesday offered to convene a special session of Parliament to discuss setting up of a joint parliamentary committee probe into the 2G scam. The BJP-led Opposition, which had paralysed the Winter Session of Parliament on the issue, continued to remain firm on its demand for a JPC probe.

The Centre has alerted Mumbai and Ahmedabad about Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba planning terror strikes in the two cities. The Central intelligence agencies have warned that LeT teams have already sneaked into the cities and may strike any time. These inputs, received in the last 24 hours, have been shared with Mumbai, Ahmedabad as well as other metro cities.

The CBI for the first time on Tuesday questioned corporate lobbyist Niira Radia in connection with its probe into the 2G spectrum scam involving former telecom minister A. Raja. Mr Raja will appear before the agency on Friday. Mr Raja, who is camping in Chennai, will leave for Delhi on Thursday.

The railways is keeping its fingers crossed and hoping that the Gujjar agitation that has disrupted rail traffic in the Gangapur city-Bharatpur section since Monday will end soon. After all, it has already had to cancel and divert some trains since Monday owing to the stir. A similar agitation by the Gujjars stretching over several days when they had blocked railway tracks had caused it a loss of around `40 crores.

Growing consumer concern over spiralling onion prices prompted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to step in on Tuesday and ask the concerned ministries to take the steps necessary for reining in their prices. He has also directed that onion prices be monitored on a daily basis.