A 28-year-old jeweller was assaulted and locked up in his east Delhi shop on Tuesday afternoon by three unidentified assailants who took away jewellery worth lakhs of rupees.

India on Tuesday took a major step towards upgrading its Navy’s maritime air reconnaissance capability and amphibious warfare strength by deciding to order four each of P8I Poseidon aircraft and Landing Pontoon Docks (LPDs) totally worth over $5 billion.

On a day when West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee met home minister P. Chidambaram seeking en-hanced support for the anti-Naxal operations in the state, the CPI(M) lashed out against the UPA ally and its arch political rival in Bengal, the Trinamul Congress, for demanding an end to the joint security operations against Maoists.

The Supreme Court has taken as serious note of some officials of the state governments involving in a “racket” of delaying the filing of appeals in high-stake commercial cases and let private industries and contractors getting away with huge financial benefits by winning the case in trial courts without it being examined on merits by the high courts or the SC.

MCD officials have claimed that there is still water in the second-level basements of nearly 25 towers in the Commonwealth Games Village. The Delhi government had earlier maintained that the water from the basement had been flushed out.

The volunteers persistent complaints about stale food being served to them has finally got the Delhi government taking charge of serving good quality food to them. This comes after two caterers failed to deliver the quality and quantity required at such magnitude on a daily basis. The volunteers have been complaining that the food served to them did not taste good and even had a stale smell. Earlier, even the doctors across the Games venues were up in arms against bad quality food.

Indian Police Service (IPS) officer K. Vijay Kumar, who will take over as the director-general of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Wednesday, says that the paramilitary force “will be readied to tackle the multi-faceted challenges”, especially Maoist extremism. “I am looking forward to work with a group of talented and dedicated officers and men,” Mr Vijay Kumar, 58, told IANS over phone from Hyderabad.

Suspecting that the Pakistani handlers of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba terrorist David Headley could use surveillance material and maps of potential terror targets provided by him to strike fresh terror during the Commonwealth Games, the Centre has issued a countrywide alert asking all states to beef up security.

The Union Cabinet on Tuesday approved the much-delayed Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill, making the judges of the Supreme Court and high courts subject to scrutiny of a high-level committee. A five-member oversight committee, headed by a former Chief Justice of India, will be formed as part of the Judicial Standards and

Wary of its alliance partner BJP possibly using the Allahabad high court’s verdict to drum up support for it in the upcoming Assembly elections, the JD(U) on Tuesday said that it would not allow the emotive issue to become a part of the campaign in the state. It also said that those, who are not satisfied with the high court’s verdict, could go for an appeal in the Supreme Court.