Facing criticism from various quarters for tardy preparations, besides allegations of corruption, the Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi and Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday expressed confidence about the event being a great success. The assertions came with exactly 30 days to go for the Games and several projects remaining incomplete.

After pleas for early clearance to the long-pending Navi Mumbai airport project, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said he would personally look into the issue to resolve the matter at the earliest.

Sunborne Energy, a utility scale solar power producer working towards providing low-cost utility solar energy, has signed an MoU with Gujarat to build a 15 MW solar PV project in Gujarat.

Taking note of widespread reports of corruption in the social audit of UPA flagship MGNREGA, the rural development ministry is planning to delink the village sarpanch from the process.

Cricket legend and IAF honorary Group Captain Sachin Tendulkar may be scared of flying in fighter aircraft but he will, nevertheless, fly in a Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force in due course. This was announced shortly after the batting maestro was formally conferred the rank of honorary Group Captain in the IAF at

Despite claims of expansion, inclusion and maintaining high standards in higher education sector of the country, IITs, the premiere engineering institutes in the country, are facing a massive shortage of teachers with over one-third positions lying vacant.

Energy experts warn that an acute shortage of uranium is going to hit the nuclear energy industry. Dr Yogi Goswami, co-director of the Clean Energy Research Centre at the University of Florida warns that “the proven reserves of uranium will last less than 30 years.”

The slum population in the country is likely to be 93.06 million in 2011, according to a new estimate carried out by an expert committee headed by principal advisor of Planning Commission, Pronab Sen. The committee was constituted to suggest new definition of slums and prepare a statistical model for arriving at a more reliable data on slum population.

A team of CBI officials is camping in Rajasthan to probe whether Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case was in any way connected to the murder of former Gujarat state home minister Haren Pandya.

India and South Korea on Friday entered into a five-year defence cooperation accord by signing two MoUs on sharing of military expertise and technology.
Defence minister A.K. Antony and his Korean counterpart Kim Tae-Young signed the two agreements in Seoul during the former’s two-day official visit there.