Sonia Gandhi on Friday created history on being re-elected Congress president for a record fourth term after remaining in the top post for 12 long years. She is the fifth member of the Gandhi-Nehru family to lead the party once again. She vowed to keep the party flag always flying high.

After pleas for early clearance to the long-pending Navi Mumbai airport project, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said he would personally look into the issue to resolve the matter at the earliest.

The International Cricket Council chief executive and ACSU chief both refused to confirm if the Metropolitan police had informed them about the reported recovery of cash from Pakistani players linking them to a British businessman.

Sunborne Energy, a utility scale solar power producer working towards providing low-cost utility solar energy, has signed an MoU with Gujarat to build a 15 MW solar PV project in Gujarat.

Delhi University students on Friday cast their votes to elect a new union in a poll which will decide the fate of 41 candidates.
A dismal 35 per cent of the students turned out to vote to elect their new union, following an election campaign that was watered down and without much fervour.

Cricket legend and IAF honorary Group Captain Sachin Tendulkar may be scared of flying in fighter aircraft but he will, nevertheless, fly in a Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force in due course. This was announced shortly after the batting maestro was formally conferred the rank of honorary Group Captain in the IAF at

Is there now a simian threat to the Games Village, which is already dealing threats like dengue and rodents, besides incomplete work?
Following a visit to the Village in connection with spraying work going on to contain dengue, MCD’s health committee chairman V.K. Monga said on Friday that he spotted m

The slum population in the country is likely to be 93.06 million in 2011, according to a new estimate carried out by an expert committee headed by principal advisor of Planning Commission, Pronab Sen. The committee was constituted to suggest new definition of slums and prepare a statistical model for arriving at a more reliable data on slum population.

With less than a month left for the Commonwealth Games, the Delhi police has made elaborate plans to ensure a smooth flow traffic in the city during the mega-event.
“All road users should avoid getting into the dedicated lane meant for athletes and if inadvertently they enter the lane, they should come out of it or else face a fine of `

Amid concerns over rising dengue cases ahead of the Commonwealth Games, Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad held a meeting with the Delhi health minister Kiran Walia to chalk out the strategy for containing the spread of the disease. It was decided to launch a massive cleaning drive in Delhi, involving all the civic agencies concerned, to ensure that dengue was contained.