A day after RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav introduced his son Tejaswi to politics, his close aide and Buxar MP Jagadanand Singh’s son quit the party and joined Bihar’s ruling BJP on Friday, calling the RJD’s 15-year regime the state’s “black chapter”.

AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh on Friday made it clear that R.C. Tripathi, the petitioner in the high court and the Supreme Court seeking to defer the judgement on the Ayodhya title suit, has nothing to do with the party.

Lauding young party general secretary Rahul Gandhi for his comments on Ayodhya dispute, the Congress on Friday said the leader’s take on the issue reflected the aspirations of a large section of the youth in India.

A day which started with the arrival of the first batch of English athletes for the Commonwealth Games brought more good news for the beleaguered Organising Committee as Australia, New Zealand and Canada all confirmed participation in the October 3 to 14 event on Friday after a large-scale clean-up operation by the Delhi

Remaining silent over the Ayodhya dispute for some time, the BJP finally reacted by saying that the judicial delay in the case has led to the issue remaining unresolved. On the other hand, the high level committee of the saints on Friday said if the verdict goes against Ram temple, they would launch a “peaceful” agitation.

The message was loud and clear from the Delhi high court, which defended a sting operation as a means to expose corruption and quashed criminal proceedings against two senior journalists of a web portal for conducting a sting operation to expose a cash-for-query scam involving 11 members of Parliament in 2005.

The Delhi Metro will add more trains to its fleet besides converting its four-coach trains into six-coach ones. The DMRC, which has 129 trains now, will have 201 trains by 2011-end. Of the 201 train sets, 112 will have four coaches and 89 trains will have six coaches.

Pakistan’s beleaguered cricket team was hit by yet another allegation on their ill-fated England tour, this time with a newspaper here publishing photographs to claim that fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar had tampered with the ball in the fifth and final ODI against England on Wednesday.

As the Supreme Court deferred the pronouncement of the crucial Ayodhya land dispute judgment by the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court due on Friday, questions are being raised by over two dozen litigating parties about the next course of action, particularly in the light of one of the three judges of the high court due to retire on October 1.

The concerned parties in the Babri title suit case are sorely disappointed at the deferment of the verdict by the Supreme Court.
Ms Ranjana Agnihotri, counsel for the Akhil Bhartiya Ram Janmabhoomi Purnuddhar Samiti, a defendant in the suit, told reporters here on Thursday that she was “disappointed and unhappy” at the deferment of the decision.