The US-backed gas pipeline project from Turkmenistan to India, via Afghanistan and Pakistan, is expected to make progress on the price of gas and the security of its delivery when Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, hosts a meeting in the second week of December.

The government on Thursday virtually dared the Opposition parties to move a no-confidence motion against it if they are not satisfied with its offer of a Public Accounts Committee examination of the CAG report on 2G spectrum allocation.

The Supreme Court on Thursday questioned the CBI about why it has not so far interrogated former telecom minister A. Raja in the 2G spectrum scam case even though the CAG report was replete with his repeated actions bending policy on allotment of spectrum licences.

On the eve of the second anniversary of the 26/11 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India has sent a strongly-worded diplomatic communication to Pakistan reminding it of its commitment to bring the perpetrators of the attacks to justice.

Despite three official CCTV cameras installed along the route from Dhaula Kuan in south Delhi, where a young girl from Northeast was abducted and gangraped on Wednesday, to Mangolpuri area in outer Delhi not a single camera has recorded the footage of the vehicle.

The Delhi Assembly on Thursday passed a resolution for full statehood for the city, though many such resolutions were passed earlier also but never implemented. The second day of the Winter session of the Assembly was again marked with ruckus as the Opposition BJP pressed for its demand of House Committee to enquire into the alleged Commonwealth Games corruption. All the BJP MLAs were again expelled from the House after treasury bench moved a resolution in this regard.

Endorsing the demand for full statehood for Delhi, which was raised through MLA Mukesh Sharma and a resolution passed in the Assembly on Thursday, Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit said that she did not want any administrative order diluting constitutional powers of the city government. Strongly replying to the motion, Ms Dikshit

Facilitating the probe agency, CBI, to unravel the alleged financial bunglings in conduct of the Queen’s Baton Relay in London 2010, Patiala House Court Special CBI Judge A.S. Yadav on Thursday extended the police custody of CWG Organising Committee (OC) official M. Jayachandran for two more days.

The ambitious proposal to have 50 world-class stations that was announced by railway minister Mamata Banerjee in her Rail Budget speech earlier this year will take between five to six years to come up. The long duration for the completion of the project is not only due to the complexity of the project but also the need to keep a station operational while it is being upgraded to world-class status.

The Army has expressed the view that counter-terror operations in J&K could be severely hit if the J&K government insists on going ahead with a move to de-notify and remove districts like Srinagar from the purview of the Disturbed Areas Act (DAA). The Army is understood to have conveyed its view to the Union and state governments on the matter.