India will shell out about $85 million for “repair technical documentation” and about $29 million for “services to Indian specialists” as part of the overall US$2.3 billion for acquisition of the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier from Russia but defence sources on Wednesday justified the costs.

Observers and analysts in Kashmir desiring a speedy return to normality worry that an absence of “political imagination” on the government’s part is encouraging the project of rapid religious mobilisation in the Valley, not unlike the processes that produced Bhindrawale in Punjab three decades ago.

Concerned over wastage of around 40 lakh tonnes of PAU 201 variety of rice in Punjab, which was rejected by the Food Corporation of India, an empowered group of ministers (EGoM) on food will try to find a solution to the vexed issue on Thursday.

Identifying a few of the important bills including the much talked about National Food Security Bill, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has said the government has a “very active agenda” for Parliament in the coming months. She has also heaped praise for AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi for his intervention in the proposed project at Niyamgiri in Orissa, where he had promised tribals that their interests would not be sacrificed in pursuit of developing natural resources.

In a bid to extend relief to more than 80 lakh Central government employees and pensioners, the Union Cabinet, at its meeting on Thursday, is likely to consider a proposal to hike their Dearness Allowance (DA) by 10 per cent.

Punjab National Bank has won the second prize in the Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha Shield Competition for promoting the use of Hindi in the banking sector. Vice-president Mohammed Hameed Ansari presented the shield to Mr K.R. Kamath, chairman and managing director, PNB, at a glittering ceremony here at Vigyan Bhavan on the

After seeing that the illegal dairies were not being shifted from the city, a division bench comprising Chief Justice of the Delhi high court Dipak Misra and Justice Manmohan on Wednesday slammed the MCD and directed the civic agency to complete the process of relocation of all illegal dairies from urban areas to Ghogha Dairy Colony within a year or face contempt of court charge.

The Delhi high court on Wednesday dismissed the petition filed by a group of members against their ban on entry in Siri Fort Sports Complex.
The court made it clear that even though the closure of the Siri Fort complex causes inconvenience to general public, but “strict” security arrangements should be put in place to avert any untoward incident during Games.

The water level in the Yamuna reached 205.77 metres on Wednesday, 94 cm above the danger mark. Taking into account the slight rise in the water level, the city government’s flood control department said that the flood scare is not over yet. An official of the irrigation and flood control department said the water level will remain

The Delhi government and the Common-wealth Games Organising Committee dispatched letters to the Canadian and Australian Games Federations on Wednesday, explaining that the dengue situation in the host city is under control and it is safe for the delegations to arrive. A group of Australian and Canadian athletes, who were