The CBI on Saturday filed a chargesheet against six former judges, including three of the Allahabad high court, in connection with the Provident Fund scam of the Ghaziabad courts. Seventy-one other persons have also been named in the chargesheet.

The Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) has decided to impose a new cess on sale of land in the district in order to fund the development of Metro in the city.

Curfew was lifted from Sopore, Baramulla, Kulgam and Koimoh towns whereas relaxation of varied durations was allowed elsewhere in the restive Kashmir Valley except in central Srinagar on Saturday.

With the city still awaiting its first monsoon shower this season, high levels of humidity made life uncomfortable for Delhiites on Saturday. The monsoon may finally hit the city some time next week.

Around a fortnight ago, two submarines of the Indian Navy suffered damages in a collision at a jetty in Mumbai’s Naval Dockyard, while one of the submarines was berthing.

The Delhi BJP and its ally, the Janata Dal (United), have geared up to make the “Bharat Bandh” call to protest against the hike in petrol and LPG prices a success in the city on Monday next.

The foundation stone for the Tirupati international airport will be laid by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on July 10, the government announced on Saturday.
Tirupati airport is run by the Airports Authority of India (AAI). Currently, only about nine domestic flights operate on an average from Tirupati airport.

A 40-year-old factory owner was bludgeoned to death by unidentified assailants in an ashram in Mukherjee Nagar area of north Delhi early on Saturday.
Police officials said the body of the deceased, identified as Vinay Kumar, a resident of Dheerpur village, was found at Baba Ramdas Ashram on Dheerpur road in Mukherjee Nagar area by the inmates of the ashram who immediately made a PCR call at around 6.30 am on Saturday.

In a major breakthrough, the National Investigation Agency on Saturday arrested the self-style commander-in-chief of Dima Halem Daogah Niranjan Hojai from Nepal and brought him to New Delhi in connection with a case relating politicians-ultras nexus in Assam.

City mayor P.R. Sawhney has reportedly asked the municipal commissioner to devise a way for ensuring that there is only one union of sanitation workers. At present there are over a dozen unions which generally tow the line of the political party to which they are affiliated.