With India showing a fast turnaround from the economic slowdown, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee now wants India to achieve 10 per cent GDP growth in the next two years.

The nation on Sunday paid rich tributes to the first Prime Minister of the country Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, on his 120th birth anniversary. The President Pratibha Patil and the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh paid floral tributes at the memorial of Nehru, Shanti Van, amidst chants of vedic hymns. Vice-President Hamid Ansari, congress

New Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Sunday said that he would reach out to local people opposing the proposed nuclear power plant in Jaitapur and ensure that they get proper compensation.

Former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan will not be inducted into the Prithviraj Chavan Cabinet to be expanded any time in the next week. This was made clear by the party on Sunday night.

At least 70 teams of doctors and health professional on Sunday began checking the residents of slum clusters for blood pressure and diabetes on the occasion of the World Diabetes Day. The teams will go to 1,180 slums and the entire process will take around three to four months.

The Delhi Cabinet may yet again take up the issue of circle rates in the city, which has become a bone of contention between Delhi lieutenant-governor Tejendra Khanna and chief minister Sheila Dikshit.

The international forum of partners of Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) ended here on Sunday with an 11-point declaration seeking to take forward the concepts that have been developed in the five years of its existence dealing with integration of maternal, newborn and child health.

The badly decomposed body of a 30-year-old businessman, who had gone missing since November 11, was found in his Honda City car in a posh locality of Gurgaon on Sunday morning. The police suspects business rivalry to be the reason behind the kidnapping-cum-murder incident.

The 30th edition of the 14-day business and cultural extravaganza, the India International Trade Fair, got underway at Pragati Maidan here on Sunday promising a kaleidoscope of India’s diversity, coupled with a focus on business with the domestic and international stakeholders. The Union commerce minister Anand Sharma, who inaugurated the fair, also promised a world-class exhibition and convention centre. This time, 23 countries are participating as compared to 28 in 2009.

Even as the transport department of the Delhi government has announced that it will cancel the permits of 10,491 autorickshaws as they have failed to get the smart card-based permit issued despite repeated reminders and extension of deadlines, the autorickshaw unions maintained on Sunday that they were unaware of any such order. They further alleged that the autorickshaw drivers, whose vehicles were not registered in their names, were not being issued the smart card-based permits.