The income tax department will set up more than 250 counters in the city to facilitate filing of returns.

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Centre to take over the Bhopal Memorial Hospital Trust established on the direction of the top court 12 years ago for treating the gas victims and accepted the resignation of former Chief Justice of India A.M. Ahamadi from the chairmanship of the trust.

In a major setback to the senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, the high court on Monday refused to quash the murder and rioting charges against him in cases related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Monday vehemently attacked the Congress of not doing anything to resolve the crisis following the arrest of its chief Chandrababu Naidu. Talking to reporters here, the party’s Rajya Sabha MP Mysura Reddy, questioned why the congress was unable to do anything when both the states as also the Centre was being governed by the them. He ridiculed the Andhra Pradesh chief minister Rosaiah for not taking any initiative to get Mr Naidu freed.

The renovation work of Delhi University hostels is about 60 to 80 per cent complete and the authorities are hoping that they will be able to hand it over to the organising committee of the Commonwealth Games 2010 by August 31.

In what the officials claimed is a major breakthrough against the militants, the security forces on Monday shot dead a top commander of LeT in an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipore area, 52 km north of here.

The Noida police on Monday arrested six members of a family in connection with a honour killing case. The police said that the six people, including parents of girl, have been arrested for killing her as they could not “bear to see her live” with a lower caste man she had married.

With a week to go for the Monsoon session of Parliament to begin, the Centre’s move for a caste-based census hangs in uncertainty. The government is still awaiting the response of political parties on whether caste should be included in the ongoing census. Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, who heads the GoM on the politically-

When above 100 injured people were brought to the Suri Sadar Hospital from the accident site at Sainthia, there was a severe shortage of blood in the small-town hospital. When this news was telecast, political parties and NGO came out on the streets making appeals to the people to donate blood. As a result, large number of ordinary people, specially youth, thronged the hospital to donate blood.

The role of Pakistan “state actors” in 26/11 has been confirmed after Pakistani-Amercian LeT terrorist David Headley told Indian interrogators that Pakistani Navy frogmen gave underwater training and directions to the 10 Pakistani terrorists who used the sea-route to travel from Karachi to Mumbai and unleashed terror claiming 168 lives. A frogman is someone who is trained to dive, swim or combat in a military capacity which is an important feature of naval special operations.