In a new twist to the statue controversy faced by the Mayawati government, the Election Commission on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court complaining that her administration has adopted “defiant and uncooperative” stance on giving details about the installation of the statues of the chief minister and Bahujan Samaj Party’s election symbol — Elephant — in memorial parks in Uttar Pradesh.

Bipin V. Salvi-trained Mr Genious, ably ridden by French jockey Stephane, Ladjadj bagged the Chamundi Hills Cup (Division-I), the main event of Wednesday’s races here.
Vishal Yadav’s Aryansh rallied to victory along the fence in the second division of the Chamundi Hills Cup.

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

Having ensured the passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha, UPA-2 in its “Report to the People” released here this evening said that political empowerment is a powerful and indispensable tool for eliminating gender inequality and discrimination.

The BSE Sensex briefly fell to 16,400 on Tuesday as the stock price of Reliance Industries — the biggest company on the index — plunged to Rs 840.55 a share or a fall of almost 20 per cent. RIL’s stock, and the index, recovered almost immediately. It turned out to be a ‘freak trade’. It seems that instead of Rs 1,040.55 a share, the trader punched in Rs 840.55. There is a possibility that the trader punched in the price for ICICI Bank by mistake.

With education reforms on the top of the UPA government agenda, the report card of first year’s performance of UPA-2 released by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday gave positive review of the HRD ministry.

The Sensex plunged nearly 400 points as the figures for manufacturing across the globe were down, denoting a global slowdown.
China’s official purchasing managers’ index, which indicates the health of the manufacturing sector, was also down to 53.9 in May from 55.7 in April. The rupee hit a one-week low of 47.12 against the dollar because of a combination of a weak euro and the fall