Armed robbers struck in broad daylight taking the passengers hostage in a packed moving Blueline bus and robbed them of their cash and valuables in the Mayapuri area of southwest Delhi on Wednesday.

The battle between the governments of Maharastra and Andhra Pradesh acquired a human rights angle with the TDP approaching the NHRC with a complaint against the Maharashtra government.

The second all-party meeting held on Tuesday to resolve the deadlock in the ongoing Budget Session of the Orissa Legislative Assembly failed as the Opposition Congress remained firm in their demand for ouster of two “tainted” ministers of the Naveen Patnaik government.

West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is again expected to give a miss to the crucial meeting convened by the CPI(M) central leadership in the capital beginning here on Wednesday. Owing to his differences with CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat, Mr Bhattacharjee has been skipping the CPI(M) meetings repeatedly.

Congress veteran Arjun Singh is said to have made up his mind to put the record straight during the Monsoon Session of Parliament on the controversy over the “escape” of former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson. The Monsoon Session commences July 26.

A bill seeking to increase the salary and allowances of members of Parliament is on the top priority list of the government in the Monsoon session of Parliament beginning Monday at a time when price hike is pinching the common man.

The three-member judicial committee of Rajya Sabha probing the charges of case fund “misappropriation” against Calcutta high court judge Soumitra Sen in a impeachment motion, on Tuesday closed the arguments in the inquiry with panel’s counsel questioning the defence put up by Justice Sen.

Angry over non-payment of their dues for the past 18 months, the MCD contractors have threatened to strike work in the city from Wednesday. For the time being, they have kept the Games 2010-related projects out of the strike but only “for the next five to six days in national interest”. They also asserted that they would not do any work

If airlines default on timely take-off of flights, passengers could soon face severe flight delays. The government has now ordered the implementation, in phases, of an earlier DGCA order that stipulated that if an aircraft failed to avail of its flight slot on time, the Air Traffic Control (ATC) will only give it permission to take-off based on

The second heavy spell of rain in the city and the NCR disrupted normal life for the better part of Tuesday with traffic snarls, waterlogging and other related problems. It also blew away the claims of authorities dealing with the Games preparations with reports of water entering the recently inaugurated cycli-ng velodrome at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium.