With the rain beating down hard on the capital this season, the city roads have been caving-in left, right and centre. Even the posh New Delhi area has seen a spate of such incidents raising questions over the quality of roads, particularly as that they are being re-done and improved for the Commonwealth Games.

There is more good news for litigants in Delhi as the sixth district court complex at Saket, touted as Asia’s biggest court complex, would become operational from August 28.

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) will run 187 extra train trips on Tuesday to handle the rush of commuters on Raksha Bandhan and will deploy additional personnel on the day.

Following more rains in the capital and additional release of water by Haryana into it, the Yamuna continued to flow above the danger mark on Sunday, while the government began evacuation of people from the low-lying areas in the city.

The Congress high command has hinted at severe action against the defiant Kadapa MP Mr Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy.
When a group of MLAs and MPs met Mr Ahmed Patel, the political secretary to Congress president Sonia Gandhi a few days ago, Mr Patel seems to have conveyed to t

Yet another defence deal with Israel is under the scanner of the Comptroller and Auditor General.
A recent CAG report found that “recce pods” (to be installed on Sukhoi fighter aircraft) procured from Israel were not selected nor evaluated as per the defence procurement procedure.

It isn’t often that you see a minister requesting a member of Parliament to withdraw his resolution with such respect and persuasion. However, on Saturday evening the Lok Sabha witnessed this unusual spectacle with Union minister of state for rural development Pradeep Jain asking veteran RJD MP and former rural development

Minister of state for environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh on Saturday informed the Rajya Sabha that the country’s first impact assessment report on change in environment is likely to be brought out by November. He stated that the government has already made a provision for Rs 25,000 crores to mitigate the impact of climate change.

The Rajya Sabha on Saturday passed the Nalanda University Bill, 2010 for establishing a transnational university at Nalanda in Bihar. Nalanda was the site of one of the first great universities in recorded history. To revive the old glory of Nalanda University, India, along with 16 countries of East Asia, has joined hands to see Nalanda as “an icon of Asian renaissance”. Nalanda still has the ruins of the ancient University which, according to historical data, existed in the fifth century.

The issue of remuneration for imams disrupted the Lok Sabha on Saturday when RJD, SP and TMC members pressed the government to implement a Supreme Court order regarding payment of salaries to clerics of government-aided mosques.