Mr Jaganmohan Reddy tried several times to convince the Congress high command of his Odarpu yatra’s objective but to no avail. Around a week back, he had called on Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, accompanied by his mother, sister and wife to explain to her the reasons behind his Odarpu yatra. It was said that the Congress chief

The government has come out with a discussion paper on opening the mutli-brand retail to foreign direct investment.
Favouring opening up of the multi-brand retail to foreign investment, the discussion paper said that there was a lack of investment in the logistics of the retail chain sector d

India is working towards achieving population stabilisation. Speaking on World Population Day, Dr Abhijit Das, director of Center for Social Justice (CHSJ), said that the overall contraceptive usage has increased from 41 per cent in 1992-93 (NFHS1 — pre-ICPD) to 56 per cent in 2005-06 (NFHS 3). For rural India this increase has been from 37 per cent to 53 per cent.

The Congress managers are comfortable with Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj and are not at all worried about the issue-based unity of Opposition members ahead of the Monsoon Session of Parliament beginning July 26.

The Congress leadership on Tuesday again warned Andhra MP Jaganmohan Reddy not to undertake his planned odarpu yatra from July 8, the birth anniversary of his late father Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, but it looks highly unlikely that he will bow to this demand.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought Delhi University’s response to a petition accusing it of “hurting” the sentiments of Hindus by prescribing the alleged distorted version of Ramayana as textbook for undergraduate history course.

The UPA government looks to be aggressively pushing those reforms which, due to their controversial nature, have been stalled for years.

The Delhi Development Authority and the private developers of the Commonwealth Games Village are now in the wrap-up mode with Delhi lieutenant governor Tejendra Khanna on Tuesday announcing that the village will be handed over to the Organising Committee (OC) on August 1, which was the deadline given by the DDA. The construction of the Village had started in January 2008 but the pace was affected following litigation and economic recession.

Twenty-seven persons who were to catch flights to Dubai were detained with fake visas at the international terminal of New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport on Tuesday evening after a call was made to the call centres of two airlines that two groups of Bangladeshis would try to hijack aircraft from Delhi.

A 19-year-old boy and his uncle, who had picked up an accident victim on the pretext of taking him to hospital and then dumped him at a desolate place to die, have been arrested by the outer Delhi police. The young boy was driving a Maruti van, which had hit the bicycle, and, in order to avoid people’s anger, he and his uncle picked up the victim claiming that they were taking him to a hospital and later dumped him.