May 11: Liquor prices in the capital have just gone up as the Delhi government effected change in rates of various brands of the Indian made foreign liquor, which will help it mop up an additional revenue of Rs 250 crores annually.

May 11: Benefiting a large number of farmers across the country, the government will put up ticker display boards in major mandis to disseminate information on the spot and future prices of commodities.

May 11: The MCD on Tuesday decided to resume sealing of cellular phone towers in the capital in violation of the norms specified by the corporation. Meanwhile, the opposition Congress alleged that the BJP-ruled MCD was not serious about taking action against the guilty companies and was dilly dallying on the issue.

May 11: BJP chief Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday accused the SP, BSP and RJD of betraying the people to suit their political needs. He accused these parties of supporting the Congress on the price rise issue when the Congress-led UPA government has “failed to curb spiralling prices of essential commodities”.

May 11: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a petition by former Tamil Nadu chief minister and AIADMK supremo J. Jayalalithaa challenging the very process of investigation in the disproportionate assets case against her, currently under trial in a special court in Bengaluru.

May 11: Home minister P. Chidambaram has said that overcoming the insurgency in the Northeast and Naxalism was “within our control” but combating terrorism of the jihadi kind posed a “more difficult problem”.

May 11: Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Tuesday refused to succumb to the popular pressure from the khap panchayat demanding legal ban on same gotra (clan or lineage) marriage.

May 11: The special session of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly, convened by the BJP-led state government to address the issue of development, began here on Tuesday under the shadow of a total boycott by the Congress-led Opposition.

May 11: Union law and justice minister M. Veerappa Moily on Tuesday stated that Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab, who has been sentenced to death in the 26/11 Mumbai attack case, could be hanged within a year.

May 11: More than 19 years after the bilateral agreement on tourism cooperation signed between India and the West Asia nation, Syria, the first joint working group meeting was held here on Tuesday.