Britain’s deputy prime minister Nick Clegg is facing growing unpopularity within his party and amongst supporters over Budget increase in value-added tax to 20 per cent.
The Liberal Democrat party, which is the junior partner in the coalition government with the Tories, saw unprecedented highs in support during the election campaign. H

B. Prithviraj-trained Sirono was brilliantly ridden by Pradeep Chouhan to snatch the Deccan Chronicle Juvenile Sprinters’ Million, the feature event of the races held here on Sunday, from hot favourite Carla in a thrilling finish.

A day after surveying the Commonwealth Games venues as well as the athletes village, Commonwealth Games Federation president Mike Fennell met the executive board of the Organising Committee in the capital on Sunday.

To prevent recurrence of any Mayapuri-type radiation leak, the Delhi Government will soon procure sophisticated equipment to scan vulnerable areas where such exposure may take place.

Three persons, including a sharphooter, were arrested in the national capital in connection with the murder of a businessman in the Katwaria Sarai area early on June.
Anil Jaat (32), a sharphooter of the notorious Ashok Rathi gang, Nitin (25) and Vikash (26) were arrested on Saturday following a tip-off, additional commissioner of police (crime) Neeraj Thakur said.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Sun-day appointed the CLP leader in the West Bengal Assembly, Mr Manas Ranjan Bhunia, the new PCC president after finance minister Pranab Mukherjee relinquished the post citing “heavy government responsibilities”. The appointment of Mr Bhunia, a close associate of Mr Mukherjee, comes

A city court has held that the bride’s side also needed to be prosecuted if the evil of the dowry was to be curbed. The observations of the court came while hearing the petition of a woman seeking quashing of criminal charges of dowry against her family. The complaint was filed by her husband, who was facing dowry charges, following which a lower court had earlier directed registration of FIR against the bride’s family in October last year.

At least one person was killed and another seriously wounded when the police opened fire to break up a protest demonstration in the curfew-bound Kashmiri town of Sopore on Sunday. Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah spoke to Union home minister, P. Chidambaram over the phone late on Sunday evening to express his “strong concern” over the recent deaths of civilians in CRPF firings.

To give tourists visiting the capital during the Commonwealth Games-2010 a helping hand in dealing with harassment of any kind or to provide information about various things, the Delhi government is coming up with a 24-hour helpline.

The current dates for onset of monsoon in different areas of the country may change from the next season. The scientists are working to revise the current dates in the backdrop of more comprehensive database at their disposal. The current normal dates for onset of monsoon in Kerala is June 1 and, in Delhi, it is June 29.