The two tenants, who had allegedly killed their blind landlords late on Monday night at Vivek Vihar in east Delhi, have been arrested by the east Delhi police. The police said the accused were miffed because the landlord objected to them bringing girls in their accommodation.

The choice of site for the Commonwealth Games village had come under sharp criticism from the environmentalists who believed it was sacrilege to encroach upon the flood plains of Yamuna river. While they were silenced, the MCD has “discovered” a new reason to say that the site of the Village is not good. Reason, mosquitoes that

Traffic was badly hit on Tuesday evening with water-logging reported from many places as it rained in several parts of the city. The MCD control room maintained that it had received more than 200 complaints of water logging. Though the weather department said that the capital received only 1 mm rain between 8.30 am to 5.30 pm, the

The Bihar government has joined issue with the civil aviation ministry over removal of air safety obstacles at the Patna airport, pointing out that much of the action sought by the ministry has to be taken at the civil aviation ministry’s initiative. Expressing surprise over a recent communication by the DGCA, the Bihar government has now written to the ministry following a high-level meeting held at Patna.

The Supreme Court proposal for fresh probe into the cancelled deemed universities virtually fallen flat on Wednesday with their lawyer not agreeing to confining the inquiry to the 44 derecognised institutions but wanting to broaden its ambit to include all 136 deemed universities examined by HRD ministry’s Tandon committee.

Union law and justice ministry has proposed to set up regional centres of excellence for advanced legal studies and research. The government has prepared the Centres for Advanced Legal Studies and Research Bill, 2010, for the establishment of these centres and it is soon likely to be presented before the Cabinet for its approval.

Asking the government to create conducive atmosphere to resolve the Maoist problem, the Supreme Court on Wednesday sought the response of Chhattisgarh to a proposal for setting up an expert committee under former Delhi court Chief Justice A.P. Shah to examine various aspects of the issue.

Rain deficiency in eastern UP, Bihar and Jharkhand has dented the government’s plans to push a second green revolution in the eastern region to ensure food security in the country.

With a resurgence in cases of H1N1 this Monsoon, Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday reviewed the situation in various states and asked them to ensure vaccination of people at risk.

Centre on Wednesday assured Parliament that the welfare, safety and security of the country’s fishermen were given the highest priority. External affairs minister S.M. Krishna said, while replying to a Calling Attention Notice on the issue of killing of Indian fishermen and continuous attacks on them by Sri Lankan Navy, he would take up