Even as the Congress on Wednesday made it clear that its alliance with the Trinamul Congress would continue, insiders fear that the latter would not leave more than 50 Assembly seats to the Congress in the big battle to be fought next year in West Bengal.

Hosts India beat China 94-0 in the tournament opener to sail into the final of the HSBC Asian 5 Nations rugby tournament here on Wednesday.
Naseer Hussain-led India put up a dominant display and outplayed the Chinese in all departments of the game at the floodlit Delhi University Rugby Stadium.

When asked who would be the new mayor of Kolkata, Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee said that the party would decide later. “We will give you a worker (for the mayor’s post), not a leader because a worker performs better,” she added.

The Delhi high court has said that premises leased out for carrying out specific commercial activities cannot be used for any other purposes.
Turning down the plea of the petitioner Mahesh Chand Goyal, a division bench comprising Justices Vikramjit Sen and A.K. Pathak said, “To permit a person to make a bid

A young pilot, who was declared a proclaimed offender, along with his two relatives, has been arrested by the special cell of the Delhi police on Wednesday on the charges of human trafficking.

In view of the suspected pilot error that led to the Mangalore air crash, the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Wednesday issued fresh directives telling airlines and pilots that “landings should be judged not by how soft the landing has been, but if it has been made at the correct speed and touchdown zone of the runway”. The

The maximum temperature in the city on Wednesday was recorded at 42.8 degrees Celsius, which was nearly two degrees less than Tuesday’s maximum of 44.1 degrees. However, the minimum temperature, recorded at 34.2 degrees Celsius, was up by more than six degrees Celsius over Tuesday’s minimum of 28.2 degrees. It is the highest minimum temperature recorded on June 2 in the last five years. A dust haze hung over the city for the better part of the day.

Farid Tanasha (37), a henchman of Chhota Rajan, was shot dead at his residence in Tilak Nagar at Chembur by half a dozen assailants on Wednesday night. Tanasha was not only a key Rajan aide in Mumbai but also a top informer for the Intelligence Bureau and the Crime Branch.

The caste violence in Haryana, which forced out a group of dalit families from Mirchpur village in Hisar district after their houses were burnt down, took ugly turn on Wednesday when Hisar’s deputy commissioner was attacked and manhandled by angry protesters.

The Centre on Wednesday ordered a CBI probe into the Gyaneswari Express derailment last Friday following another request by railway minister Mamata Banerjee, whose Trinamul Congress demolished the Left in the West Bengal civic elections the same day. The train attack had been blamed on the Maoists.