The BJP on Tuesday said it is “unfortunate” that the Congress is raising the Babri Masjid demolition issue “again and again”. The party said the law is taking its course in the matter, advising the Congress against giving “edification”.

The Congress plans to delink the working committee elections from the party plenary perhaps for the first time. It has decided to call two all India sessions in the next two months.

Amid protests from the teachers’ representatives, Delhi University’s apex decision-making body, the Executive Council (EC), on Monday decided to institute a three-member panel to further pin-point blame in the April radiation exposure case.
The decision was taken following the discussion on the Pancholi Committee report in the EC.

Giving a jolt to the prosecution and the CBI, Ram Avtar Sharma, a prosecution witness on Monday turned hostile while deposing before the court of additional sessions judge (ASJ) Sunita Gupta, claiming that he had not given shelter to one of the victims in connection with a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case in which senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar is an accused.

People in south Delhi and adjoining areas will have to bear with the more traffic restrictions from Tuesday morning as Delhi police has decided to close the Surajkund Road for a week due to shooting competition at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range falling on this crucial link road.

The dengue menace continues unabated in the city with 86 fresh cases being reported on Monday. The total number of cases have now reached 3,641 in the city and seven persons have died so far.

A 27-year-old man was injured when he accidentally fell in the pool in the house of Navy War Room leak case accused Abhishek Verma at Vasant Kunj in south Delhi on Sunday.

Delhi BJP on Monday criticised chief minister Sheila Dikshit for allegedly making attempts to draw political mileage out of the praise of the Commonwealth Games Village, criticised earlier for lack of sanitation. The BJP also alleged breach of protocol against the Organising Committee for not inviting city mayor Prithvi Raj Sawhney for the inaugural ceremony on Sunday.

It was not the golden start India would have been hoping for but there was plenty to cheer on the opening day of competition in the 19th Commonwealth Games here on Monday. The weightlifters pulled in two silver medals and as many bronzes on a day eight golds were up for grabs to see the hosts in seventh place overall in the medals tally.

Senior BJP leader L.K. Advani feels “vindicated” about his Ayodhya rathyatra in the wake of the Allahabad high court verdict, and says he would prefer a negotiated settlement for the building of a Ram temple at the place where a makeshift temple now stands.