BJP chief Nitin Gadkari’s efforts to bring back former party leader and saffron sanyasin Uma Bharti in the party suffered another setback after differences among party leaders on the issue came to the fore.

RJD and LJP chiefs Lalu Prasad Yadav and Ram Vilas Paswan, respectively, will jointly kickstart electioneering for this year’s Bihar Assembly elections by airdashing 40 places in the state in 10 days beginning this Friday. The two parties are also set to finalise seat-sharing arrangement in the next 10 days, while Mr Paswan stated on Wednesday that “now there is no scope for any other party to join their alliance”.

Around 400 police personnel from the neighbouring states might be deployed with the Delhi police for the Commonwealth Games security. The order will be issued if the next Cabinet meeting of the Delhi government approves the police personnel deputation in the city.

The four worst Naxal-affected states —Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa and West Bengal — will set up Unified Command structures headed by the chief secretaries of each state for better coordination among police, paramilitary and intelligence agencies. The state governments will appoint a retired major-general of the Army as a member of the Unified Command to advise the state administration on anti-Naxal operations.

Two days after rain chaos in the city, the MCD on Wednesday dusted its old solution to the problem of waterlogging on Delhi roads. Municipal commissioner K.S. Mehra told the MCD’s standing committee that the MCD was working on a multi-agency coordinated response plan that would effectively tackle the problem of waterlogging.

Amazed passengers entered the glittering new integrated Terminal-3 at New Delhi’s IGI Airport for the first time ever on Wednesday even as Air India announced that it plans to build a “primary hub” at Delhi airport to “connect India with the world”.

The Delhi high court on Wednesday directed the principal district and sessions judge to instruct all trial court judges to put bail orders on the Internet t make it easily accessible to all the undertrial prisoners and convicts lodged in various jails in the city.

As the executive and judiciary are grappling with the problems faced by the subordinate courts in the country, the Supreme Court has taken a serious view of the high court administration not even recording the “confidential reports” of the judicial officers in time leading to various complications regarding their confirmation, promotion and other service-related issues.

With two deaths due to H1N1 being reported in the city, the hospital authorities have begun gearing up to ensure that the disease does not spread.
At least two other persons admitted in the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash hospital are said to be in a stable condition, though not completely out of danger. At RML hospital, an Australian woman, who was put on ventilator, is now reported be recovering.

Activist lawyer Prashant Bhushan will be proceeded with a contempt of court case by the SC on its suo moto motion for casting aspersion against Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia, some former CJIs and judges in a media interview. A three-judge bench comprising Justices Altamas Kabir, Cyriac Joseph and H.L. Dattu rejected the