A special team of the Commonwealth Games Federation, which went on an inspection of the Games venues on Saturday, has asked the Delhi government and the Organising Committee to give explanation as to why the Rugby practice ground in the Delhi University premises is not ready yet.

Acclaimed Hindi writer, poet and journalist 77-year-old Kanhaiya Lal Nandan, passed away on Saturday morning. Nandan was honoured with the Padma Shri and Bharatendu awards, and had worked as the editor of Parag, Sarika and Dinman magazines.

Julia Roberts surprised everyone by eating rice, chapati, aloo-gobi and mattar-paneer with her bare hands while filming Eat Pray Love in India in 2009, but the Pretty Woman star can’t stand onions, says her lesser known Indian co-star Russhita Singh.

Jab-jab TV-walle log apne new-new show ke beginning main long-long bhashan likhte hain — that so-and-so doesn’t resemble so-and-so and that our serial is not a copy of that jurm story — unko kala crow bum pe zor se bite karta hai. Of course, their lies hum ko buddhu banana ke liye nahin hote. They are designed to save their other bum from biting lawyers.

The latest film produced by Aamir Khan, Peepli [Live], has been selected as India’s official entry to next year’s Oscars.
Depicting the growing rural-urban divide in the country, the film will represent India in the Best Foreign Film category. “Peepli [Live] has been selected as India’s official entry for the Oscars out of 27 films,” stated Film Federation of India secretary-general Supran Sen.

A day which started with the arrival of the first batch of English athletes for the Commonwealth Games brought more good news for the beleaguered Organising Committee as Australia, New Zealand and Canada all confirmed participation in the October 3 to 14 event on Friday after a large-scale clean-up operation by the Delhi

The message was loud and clear from the Delhi high court, which defended a sting operation as a means to expose corruption and quashed criminal proceedings against two senior journalists of a web portal for conducting a sting operation to expose a cash-for-query scam involving 11 members of Parliament in 2005.

Unhappy with the delay and the last-minute rush to fix things relating to the Delhi Commonwealth Games (CWG), Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday came down heavily on sports minister M.S. Gill and urban development minister Jaipal Reddy, asking them to “get the job done”.

The Delhi Metro will add more trains to its fleet besides converting its four-coach trains into six-coach ones. The DMRC, which has 129 trains now, will have 201 trains by 2011-end. Of the 201 train sets, 112 will have four coaches and 89 trains will have six coaches.

A former Indian Army soldier was arrested by the police in connection with the murder of a woman who was found dead on September 14 at Manakpura in central Delhi.
The deceased, identified as Sunita, was working as a supervisor at a Paharganj hotel and was found dead with her throat slit in a room of the accused Sonu, who had taken it on rent three months ago.