Paving way for what is being seen as a long-term solution to the pollution in the Yamuna river due to untreated sewage disposal, the Union Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure on Wednesday cleared the project for laying interceptor sewer along the three main drains of the city — Najafgarh, Supplementary (running almost parallel to Najafgarh drain) and the Shahdara drain.

India captain Baichung Bhutia added another feather to his cap, after he was given honorary life membership to the Portugal Football Players’ Association.

The Labour party plunged into new crisis on Wednesday when one of its newly-elected MPs was charged over parliamentary expenses claims.

Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Wednesday, criticised Union home minister P. Chidambaram for taking a cowardly stand against the Naxals and demanded that they should be dealt with like enemies of the state.

In less than a week, the Delhi high court on Wednesday, in its second interim order, restrained the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) from sealing the illegal mobile towers providing service in the city till next Monday.

In a major breakthrough, British scientists have found that a harmless virus could cure advanced untreatable cancers.

Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh on Wednesday maintained that using air power to tackle the Naxal menace was not advisable. The Congress, on the subject of the use of air power against the Maoists, said it was for the government to decide and that there was no difference within the party on the matter.

Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Wednesday, criticised Union home minister P.

Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh on Wednesday maintained that using air power to tackle the Naxal menace was not advisable. The Congress, on the subject of the use of air power against the Maoists, said it was for the government to decide and that there was no difference within the party on the matter.

Hit by repeated and deadly Maoist attacks, an exasperated Union home ministry on Wednesday shifted the entire blame for the incidents on the state governments.
A top home ministry official on Wednesday said that the Centre can not take the initiative. It is the job of the state governments. He then added: “If the state governments ask for additional force, the Centre will definitely provide. But it is the state governments who will have to take action.”