Despite being told off by the Supreme Court for holding more than one post in the Indian cricket setup, Mr N. Srinivasan is set to make a smooth transition from board secretary to president-elect at the BCCI’s 81st AGM in Mumbai on Wednesday.

Detailed arguments were heard in the Supreme Court on Tuesday on what would be the consequences of the title suit verdict in the light of the 1994 Supreme Court Constitution Bench’s guidelines for deciding the case by the high court and the parliamentary mandate for acquiring the disputed land with 68 acres of additional land around the demolished structure.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed two petitions to defer the Ayodhya title suit ruling and cleared the decks for the Lucknow bench of the Allhahabd high court to pronounce judgment in the 60-year-old case. Soon after this, it was announced that the three-member high court bench would deliver its verdict at 3.30 pm on Thursday, September 30.

With barely four days for the Common-wealth Games to begin, top authorities at the Centre have handed over the sanitation responsibility to the MCD for all Games venues falling under its jurisdiction. The venues include Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Games Village, and seven other stadia.

Even as the number of vehicles challaned for straying into the dedicated Games lane increased from 39 to 168 with 129 vehicles being fined on Tuesday, Delhiites seem to be getting around to grinning and bearing the inconvenience of driving through a squeezed space, something they are not used to.

Surender Koli, the prime accused in the Nithari serial killings, was sentenced to death by a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Tuesday for murdering eight-year-old-girl Rachna. This is his third death penalty awarded to Koli by the CBI court.

The city roads are refusing to hold up after heavy monsoon rains as four more cave-ins were reported over the last 24 hours. A 15-foot long crater was formed when the road connecting ISBT to Shahdara caved in at Seelampur on Tuesday at around 2 pm. “A part of the road collapsed in adjoining nullah, which led to a 15-foot long crater,” a senior police official said.

With the Delhi government scrambling to finish the work at the Commonwealth Games Village, chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday had a fresh advise for the athletes and delegates putting up there, asking them to “lock their rooms” following reports of thefts and pilferage. She also gave a new “deadline” saying all the remaining CWG-related works will be finished by October 3.

A 20-year-old student of Jamia Millia Islamia was bludgeoned to death by four students on Tuesday afternoon. Police officials said the incident took place at around 3 pm near Ansari Health Club on the university campus.

In an incident that could be taken up by India through diplomatic channels with the US, minister of state for civil aviation Praful Patel was reportedly stopped for questioning by authorities at the Chicago airport in the United States after a case of mistaken identity but later allowed to go.