After a rap by the Supreme Court, the Union Cabinet on Thursday took up the issue of black money stashed in foreign banks. PM Manmohan Singh himself raised the issue, saying the government’s stand must be spelt out after the court’s observations made media headlines.

The manager of National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), an NGO working in education sector, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in his hotel room in Kalkaji on Wednesday morning.

The Delhi police on Thursday arrested a Blueline bus driver for allegedly stealing diamonds and silver worth over `20 lakhs from the residence of an NTPC engineer.
The accused bus driver, Jitender Kumar, was close to the family of NTPC engineer, Deepak Kumar Dahiya.

Blame it on election year. The cash-strapped MCD may be struggling to reduce the debt of `2,867 crores but the councillors see no problem in adding another `400 crore bill by allocating funds under their quotas. On the other hand, the standing committee, while passing the final budget estimates for the year 2011-12, on Thursday predictably rolled back the proposed five per cent hike in property tax.

The Delhi Metro will be bigger than London Metro by 2017. By one km. The newly-appointed Union urban development minister, Kamal Nath, on Thursday said that by 2017 the capital will have a total Metro length of 415 km, more than the London Metro network, which is planned to grow to 414 km from its current track length of 402 km.

A day after the city private schools threatened not to admit students of the economically weaker section (EWS) category in the nursery classes citing financial burden, the Delhi government on Thursday said that the schools violating the norms under the RTE Act implementation would be de recognised.

The Delhi police has transferred the case of a suspected Maoist arms supplier, who was held in Karol Bagh with a huge cache of detonators, to its elite anti-terror cell after it transpired that the detonating devices were manufactured by a company whose explosive-laden trucks went missing last year.

The Pakistan Bar has come under sever criticism by a body of international jurists, especially those form the third world countries for failing to rein in the lawyers from openly praising the assassin of Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer while he was being produced in the court in Islamabad and showering rose petals on him.

A woman lawyer came to the rescue of former RAW official Nisha Priya Bhatia after the ex-official, frustrated at adjournments in various courts, tried to disrobe in the Delhi high court, and pleaded for her release on the ground that she had school-going children. The court then decided to hear the matter in-camera.

The government’s efforts to develop a national vocational education curriculum framework for students received a boost on Thursday after the proposal was unanimously endorsed by the state governments.