AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday met BJP parliamentary party chairman L.K. Advani to convey birthday wishes to the veteran BJP leader. Congress chief Sonia Gandhi also wished the senior BJP leader.

The government has turned down requests from state governments and private exporters to resume export of non-basmati rice, despite a bumper crop in 2010, in the wake of the proposed National Food Security Act.

Former Union defence minister and Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav on Tuesday warned the government that China can attack India any time and the country has to be prepared for it.

Following the visit of US President Barack Obama to New Delhi, the CPI(M) on Tuesday attacked the government saying that the US has put India on “probation” in the UN Security Council and would decide on supporting its claim for permanent membership only after New Delhi “toes its line”.

The allegedly questionable role played by the country’s premier investigative agency, the CBI, was questioned yet again by some Opposition parties here on Tuesday. It was done in the Lok Sabha during Zero Hour by the main Opposition party, the BJP as well as the JD(U).

In what appeared to be yet another case of corporal punishment, a Class 12 student of a government school was allegedly beaten up by his school teacher in Mayur Vihar area of east Delhi on Monday. While the school has assured action against the teacher, the parents of the student refused to file a formal complaint with the police.

The cause of poor health of school going children could be tiffin packed by their mothers and not the canteen food alone. ]
A survey conducted by an NGO across 15 schools in Delhi and National Capital Region has concluded that unhealthy food is as much responsible for diseases among children as much as outside food.

Delhi food and civil supplies minister Haroon Yusuf was summoned by a Delhi court for allegedly furnishing false information in the affidavit, which he filed along with the nomination papers two years ago.

The MCD has forwarded a `1,600-crore plan for expanding and improving its educational infrastructure, in accordance with the Right to Education Act, to the Delhi government.

Classical flute exponent Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia was today conferred the “Chevalier dans l’ Ordre des Arts et des Lettres”, the highest civilian award by the French government for his contribution to music. The flute maestro was honoured at the French embassy in New Delhi.