The Maharashtra Cabinet expansion was postponed on Thursday by another day. Now, the new ministers will be sworn-in on Friday at around 11 am in a function at Raj Bhavan.

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Thursday continued with his verbal offensives on Bihar’s NDA government for the mismatch between its claims of the state’s ongoing progress and what he described as the unchanging ground realities. A miffed NDA responded by ridiculing the high-profile Congress MP.

The AIADMK on Thursday stepped up pressure on the government by demanding a white paper on the 2G spectrum allocation scam. The party has warned the government that Parliament would not be allowed to function the government did not agree to a joint parliamentary committee probe.

Appearing before a division bench comprising Justices Anil Kumar and S.L. Bhayana, former additional solicitor-general (ASG) K.K.

Prince William and his fiancée Kate Middleton, who announced their engagement on Tuesday, have started planning for their wedding next year. However, no details have been released as yet about the date and venue of the wedding due to be held in London in spring or summer next year.

The 2011 Indian Premier League players’ auction will be in Mumbai on January 8-9, IPL’s governing council said Wednesday. The tournament from April 8 to May 22 will feature 60 matches between eight teams. It begins a week after the World Cup ends. Each of the eight will play 14 games, adding up to 56 league matches, the same as in previous IPLs.

With the toll in the Lalita Park building collapse rising to 67, the Delhi government on Wednesday announced a judicial inquiry into the tragedy, which will be conducted by a former Delhi high court judge, Mr Lokeshwar Prasad, and completed in three months.

The chill in the air on Wednesday was on the upswing with most parts of the city receiving rainfall in the afternoon. While the maximum temperature was two degrees below normal, the minimum temperature was seven degrees above normal.

An elderly woman was found murdered in her house at Sarai Rohilla in north Delhi on Wednesday. The police suspects robbery to be the motive as cash and articles worth around `40 lakhs were missing. In another incident in the same area, a 30-year-old man was shot dead when a business rival opened fire from his licenced revolver over a trivial issue.

The death of 67 people in the Lalita Park building collapse incident is a grim reminder of how the families uprooted from the Yamuna pushta for rehabilitation were forced to live in dungeon-like houses in localities. Livelihood and low rent forced them to risk their lives in the buildings, no less than deathtraps, allegedly “specifically built” for them.