As the nation awaits with bated breath the Allhahabad high court’s crucial judgement on contentious Ayodhya “title suit” fixed for Friday, suspense prevailed whether the Supreme Court would intervene to get the pronouncement deferred after a bench refused to hear a plea for postponement of the verdict on technical grounds.

The Delhi police will operationalise dedicated lanes for Commonwealth Games from Thursday. The regular traffic would not be closed fully. Those violating the rules and straying into the lanes will be fined `2,000.

The flood threat in the city turned grim as the Yamuna, flowing above the danger mark since long, further swelled on Wednesday and its water level crossed the 207 metre-mark for the first time in 32 years.

After complaints that the conditions at the Commonwealth Games Village here are “filthy and uninhabitable”, additional sanitation staff from MCD were pressed into service on Wednesday to clean the towers.

The four labourers injured in the collapse of the under-construction foot overbridge near Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, the main Games venue, on Tuesday are still critical and showing “no signs of improvement”.

The Ninth Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) will be held in New Delhi from January 7 to 9, 2011.
Making the announcement here Wednesday, Overseas Indian affairs minister Vayalar Ravi said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will inaugurate it while President P

With the build-up to the Commonwealth Games going from bad to worse, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called a meeting with sports minister M.S.

The Supreme Court on Thursday deferred by a week the pronouncement of the Ayodhya verdict by the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court.

The Delhi government on Thursday directed all those concerned working in the Commonwealth Games Village to finish cleanliness and maintenance work within next 24 hours.

Infrastructure firm DSC Limited announced the names of the five jury members for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature on Tuesday.