With no solution in sight to the logjam in Parliament, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Monday said she has convened a meeting of leaders of all parties on Tuesday as part of her efforts to ensure smo

The government on Monday ordered a probe into the leaks of recorded tapes of conversations between corporate lobbyist Niira Radia, her clients and certain journalists among others.

Congress rebel and Kadapa MP Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy is under watch but the Congress high command is unlikely to discipline him right now. The party’s strategy appears to be to ignore him so that his following of party legislators from Andhra Pradesh dwindles before taking any action.

A Delhi court on Saturday directed the police to register an FIR against Hurriyat Conference faction leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, writer Arundhati Roy and others for allegedly delivering anti-India speeches during a programme in the national capital on October 21. The court, ticking off the police for failing to take action, said that at the stage of registration of an FIR the only thing the police has to see is whether the contents of a complaint disclosed a cognisable offence.

The frenzy about the Delhi Development Authority’s latest housing scheme not withstanding, the civic body is yet to allot residential plots to successful allottees for “Residential Flats Registration Scheme-1985 for Slum areas and others”, a scheme that was floated way back in 1985.

Senior BJP leader Vijay Goel has demanded that the DDA housing scheme, which was launched on November 25, should be limited only to the residents of Delhi and not to all the citizens in the country. He said that allowing people from across the country to apply would possibly attract property dealers and those genuinely in need of flats may be left out in the draw of lots.

Taking a strong step towards preventing absenteeism and dereliction of duty on the part of the teachers and school principals in its schools, the MCD on Saturday placed under suspension one principal, besides several other contractual teachers.

The India International Trade Fair ended on Saturday and over one-and-a-half lakh people visited the fair. People made the most of the last day discounts as some stalls offered as much as 70 per cent discount. However, traffic in the area remained affected due to the fair.

Taking notice of the car dealers who have encroached on the road and footpath below Defence Colony flyover in south Delhi, the Delhi high court on Saturday issued contempt notices to the chief secretary of the city government, the police and MCD chiefs for their failure to take action. In the notices the high court has asked actions against the car dealers.

Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Saturday assured to prepare an action plan to check the menace of spurious drugs in the city. While addressing a seminar on measures taken to combat counterfeit drugs, Ms Dikshit said these drugs are hazardous and fatal and there should be a policy of no tolerance towards them.