Hailing the Karnataka and Gujarat high courts’ decisions in favour of it, the saffron camp on Friday said that truth has prevailed, as party cadres celebrated at party headquarters. The BJP, which was witnessing unsavoury one-upmanship between its two top leaders, Ms Sushma Swaraj and Mr Narendra Modi, for the past couple of days, finally got a chance to rejoice after the courts’ decision. Afer the Gujarat high court granted bail to its leader and former state home minister Amit Shah and the

Talk of a change of guard in Maharashtra is gaining ground in Congress circles. Though chief minister Ashok Chavan on Friday ruled out his resignation over the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society controversy, the Congress high command “summoned” him to be in New Delhi on Saturday and clarify his position.

In a strong indictment of the Union government, the Supreme Court on Friday questioned the continuation of communications and IT minister A. Raja in the ministry when the CBI is probing allegations of corruption against him in the 2G spectrum scam case.

Prof. Dinesh Singh, the pro vice-chancellor of Delhi University, was on Friday appointed the new vice-chancellor. He took over charge from Prof. Deepak Pental, whose term expired on August 31.

Commuters were stranded at various Metro stations on Dwarka-Noida/ Anand Vihar stretch due to signalling problem on Friday. The trains ran at a restricted speed of 25 km per hour from 9 am to 11.48 am due to the snag. This led to bunching of trains at stations. Most trains stopped at all stations for more than the usual time. The DMRC

An NDMC executive engineer, who was incharge of two CWG projects — the Talkatora Indoor Stadium and the Shivaji Stadium Complex — has been placed under suspension just days before his retirement. The NDMC maintained that it was a technical requirement as a probe by the Central Vigilance Commission in this regard was going on.

The Delhi high court on Friday gave a breather to Blueline operators plying buses in south Delhi by an order that the notification of the NCT government for complete phaseout of the buses from roads by December 14 will not apply to cluster one.

A 35-year-old executive was shot dead by assailants when he resisted a robbery attempt at his residence in west Delhi on Thursday evening.
The incident is the latest in a series of heinous crimes that have taken place in the city, where a sudden spurt in crime rate is being seen after the Commonwealth Games. Over the last week, more than a dozen cases of heinous crimes have been reported from the city.

Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan has been summoned to meet Congress president Mrs Sonia Gandhi here on Saturday in connection with the controversial Adarsh Housing Society project.

The CBI has filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking cancellation of the bail granted by the Gujarat high court to former state minister Amit Shah and sought an urgent hearing.