With Delhi and Haryana failing to amicably settle their water sharing dispute, the Centre has set up a Group of Ministers (GoM) for its resolution.
The GoM will look into the water sharing dispute arising out of the newly-constructed Carrier Lined Channel (CLC) between Munak in Haryana and Haiderpur in Delhi, government sources said.

A 25-year-old man died and his two associates were injured when their speeding car rammed into a central road verge in Hazrat Nizamuddin area on Wednesday night.
The deceased has been identified as Mohammad Javed, a resident of Pushp Vihar. “His friends, Danish, 23, and Charan Singh, 28, are in hospital. The accident took place at 1.10 am,” said a senior police officer.

A hoax call of blowing up the Rajiv Chowk Metro Station on Thursday sent the police and security forces into a tizzy.
The call was received at 2.51 pm and commuters were stopped from entering the station at 3.12 pm. The police did the required security checks as per set procedures and bomb disposal squads were rushed to the station.

An unidentified robber was killed, while his aide escaped on a police motorcycle during their exchange of fire with the police in Noida on Thursday.
The incident occurred around 1.15 pm when the police in Sector-82 received a call that two bike-borne robbers had snatched cash from a person and were escaping.

A six-year-old boy was charred to death in a blaze that broke out at a night-shelter in Meena Bazar area of central Delhi on Thursday morning.
The fire officials said the blaze started at the night-shelter at around 6.15 am on Thursday following which a call was made to Delhi Fire Service,

Questioning how prohibitory order can be imposed on the Republic Day to prevent people from hoisting the national flag, the main Opposition BJP is considering initiating legal action against the Omar Abdullah government for “illegally confining” its senior leaders at the Jammu airport. Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha

The CPI(M) on Thursday said it was “inexplicable” as to how the government was saying it was not aware of the charges against chief vigilance commissioner P.J. Thomas while appointing him to the post. “It is inexplicable. We can’t really understand how the government is saying that they were not aware of certain matters,” CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said here.

The government, which is in a bind over the controversial appointment of CVC P.J. Thomas, is mulling action against certain officials who were allegedly responsible for failing to bring it to the notice of the selection committee that a request for prosecution sanction of Mr Thomas was pending with the government.

In a fresh bid to break the deadlock in Parliament over the Opposition’s demand for a JPC probe into the alleged 2-G spectrum allocation scam, finance minister and leader in the Lok Sabha Pranab Mukherjee has called a meeting of the leaders of all the parties over lunch on February 8.

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the CBI to furnish the Gujarat government and other accused with documents being relied upon by it for transferring outside the state the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case trial allegedly involving former state minister Amit Shah.