The chairman of the MCD’s works committee, Mr Jagdish Mamgain, has written a letter to the Delhi lieutenant-governor seeking his intervention to resolve the deadlock between various agencies so that the corporation’s Commonwealth Games 2010-related projects could be completed on time, at least for now.

Mr Omar Abdullah, who heads the National Conference-Congress coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir, met Mrs Sonia Gandhi on Saturday and discussed with her the functioning of his government. Sources said Mrs Gandhi expressed her satisfaction over the handling of the situation by the state government and assured the full support of her party. He also met the Prime Minister and the home minister.

The Delhi Development Authority is trying its best to hand over nearly 3,000 flats at Vasant Kunj, which would provide almost 5,000 rooms to delegates and tourists during the Commonwealth Games-2010, to the Indian Tourist Development Corporation (ITDC) by August 31. Early this week, the group of ministers (GoM) on

Maharashta chief minister Ashok Chavan is finding it difficult to create an atmosphere in favour of his state at the Centre, on the issue of boundary dispute between Maharashta and Karnataka. While the Congress is distancing itself from this issue, the Union government cannot take any stand on it as the matter is sub judice.

An elderly NRI woman was allegedly assaulted by a group of police officers at the behest of a local property dealer in the upscale Defence Colony area in south Delhi on Friday. The police sources said the victim, identified as Dr Manjula Krippendorf, 64, along with her daughter, was allegedly assaulted by the station house officer (SHO) of

The continuing moonsonal floods across large tracts of Haryana and southern Punjab have already cost 51 human lives apart from hundreds of crores in the large scale devastation to the canal network, rural roads and thousands of acres sown with summer paddy.

Looks like the bond between Amitabh Bachchan and Aamir Khan is finally getting stronger as Big B recently invited Aamir for a special screening of his 2009 film Paa at his residence.

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and its parliamentary party chairman L.K. Advani on Saturday said he was impressed with the influence of Hinduism in Indonesia, a Muslim dominated country.

It pays to follow your dream. And Bengalurean artist Aishwaryan K reiterates this point. This 24-year-old, who specialises in an uncommon art form called print making, is the only Indian to have been chosen for the ongoing Lessedra Mini Print 2010 exhibition held in Bulgaria. “Print making is not a popular pick since it is tedious to pursue.

Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Saturday viewed gender disparities are more due to lack of proper understanding of women’s capabilities than any real frailty of will and wisdom. But women are emerging as agents of change in the struggle against gender biases. “We have to be catalysts for changing mentalities and addressing cultural stereotypes,” she said.