A BJP delegation, led by former party chief Mr Rajnath Singh on Saturday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The BJP leaders, concerned over the political situation in Nepal, sought to know from the Prime Minister the “structured view” and the policy of the government with regard to Nepal.

The Crises for Suresh Kalmadi is likely to deepen after the conclusion of the Commonwealth Games. The Congress high command has indicated that a thorough investigation into the Kalmadi affairs will be initiated after the Games.

The government on Friday said there is a need to check whether there were “ulterior motives” behind the claim that a drug-resistant superbug had been traced to India.
Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said, “The reasoning that has been given was that the patients went from India and Pakistan to London. But this has not been m

In a sad commentary on the manner in which the country’s sportspersons are treated, a Lok Sabha MP complained in the House that 15 players who went to participate in the World Shooting Championship in Munich recently had to foot their travel bills.

With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrasekhar to oversee preparations for the Commonwealth Games to be held here in October, the top bureaucrat held a meeting with the secretaries of the key ministries concerned with the event.

A book on Left politics, Left Politics in Bengal-Time Travels among Bhadrolok Marxists, authored by senior journalist Monobina Gupta, was released in the city on Thursday.

Indian doctors gave a new lease of life to the an Afghan child with a Long QT syndrome, a genetic ailment that makes him susceptible for heart attacks. 14-month old Mushtaba’s elder brother and sister had died in their infancy due to the same ailment, which forced his parents to bring him to Delhi and get him treated.

Two Delhi BJP leaders on Friday lodged a complaint with the police against the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee for alleged acts of corruption. Tughlaqabad BJP MLA Ramesh Bidhuri and state party leader R.P. Singh filed the complaint with the Parliament Street police station on Friday.

One person has been arrested by the south Delhi police for allegedly being involved in supplying spurious drugs, which also included life-saving medicines. The police has recovered 7,500 tablets of life saving tablets, Listril, besides other spurious drugs.

Even as the MCD on Friday launched public toilets that use innovative technology to reduce waste generation, its plans to construct more than 200 swanky toilet complexes and 1,000 waterless urinals in the capital before the Commonwealth Games-2010 hangs afire.