The RJD leaders are hopeful that the Muslim support will come back to the party in this year’s Bihar Assembly election, after party chief Lalu Prasad Yadav was declared the chief ministerial candidate of the Rashtriya Janata Dal-Lok Janshakti Party combine.

British Prime Minister David Cameron, who is the country’s youngest Prime Minister in two centuries, announced the birth of his fourth child, a daughter, on Tuesday.
The baby was born prematurely on Tuesday afternoon as Mr Cameron, 43, and his wife Samantha were on holiday in Cornwall with their two children, Nancy, 6, and Arthur, 4. Their eldest son Ivan, who suffered from cerebral palsy and epilepsy, died in February last year.

In the wake of a recent Pentagon report that China is moving advanced CSS-5 ballistic missiles to areas close to the Sino-Indian border, New Delhi is clearly taking no chances. The government is now ready to induct the nuclear-capable Agni-III ballistic missile — with a range of 3,000-3,500 km and capable of hitting targets in China —

It is not only Members of Parliament who will soon get a hefty raise in salaries. Delhi MLAs and ministers are also likely to earn more, with the Delhi Cabinet approving a 200 per cent increase in the salaries of MLAs, ministers, the chief minister, Assembly Speaker and Leader of the Opposition.

Union rural development minister C.P. Joshi on Monday reportedly sought clarifications on the Educational Tribunals Bill 2010 before the Cabinet approved it. The bill seeks to set up a two-tier structure of educational tribunals at the national and state levels to adjudicate on disputes in the higher education system. Sources said the clearance to the bill comes without incorporating changes proposed by the parliamentary standing committee on HRD.

Two separate incidents of robbery were reported from the national capital in the last 24 hours.
In the first incident, eight masked men allegedly barged into a jewellery shop in Mayapuri area and held the staff hostage before decamping with jewellery worth Rs 20 lakhs.

The MCD on Monday resolved to request the Centre for giving it the task of regularising the 1,639 unauthorised colonies, a promise made by the Delhi government before the November 2008 Assembly elections. Meanwhile, in the Delhi Assembly, the government said that it had sent a list of 680 colonies to the MCD for sanction and scrutiny of their layout plans.

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday called upon the police to dispel the sense of general insecurity in the capital, while asserting that she wanted elected representatives to have some say in policing. The Delhi Assembly on Monday took up a discussion on the issue of deteriorating law and order in the capital, after the police commissioner Y.S. Dadwal’s presence was ensured in the House.

Amidst scathing attack by the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly over road cave-in incidents, chief minister Sheila Dikshit appealed to the BJP “not to make things worse but join hands to make the Commonwealth Games a great success”.

It is not only the Members of Parliament who are to get a major hike in salaries. The Delhi MLAs are also likely to get a raise in remuneration. The Delhi Cabinet has given its consent for 200 per cent hike in the salaries of the MLAs, Assembly Speaker, chief minister, ministers and Leader of the Opposition keeping in view the growing expenses and increasing inflation.