A 62-year-old woman was killed by unidentified armed assaila-nts who managed to barge into her house at Shahpur Jat in Hauz Khas police station area of south Delhi in the early hours of Saturday. The police suspect personal enmity to be the reason behind the incident.

Two persons were killed and five others were injured in an accident involving a trailer, a mini truck, a motorcycle and a Tata Sumo.
The accident occurred in the early hours of Friday at Rajouri Garden in west Delhi. No arrests have been made in the case.

Even as the National Advisory Council headed by Sonia Gandhi is working towards a near universal public distribution system under the proposed national food security act, the food ministry headed by Sharad Pawar has ruled out a universal PDS.

The home ministry on Saturday pulled up some forest officials posted in Naxalite-affected areas for allegedly not alerting local police about “happenings” there and even attending meetings organised by the Maoists.

The Planning Commission has finalised a Rs 13,742 crores Integrated Action Plan (IAP) that will act as a catalyst for development in 60 Naxalite-affected districts spread across Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Orissa.

The Union home ministry has shelved its proposal for allowing direct entry of fresh Indian Police Service (IPS) recruits into a Central agency after the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) turned it down citing technical concerns.

The CPWD has set up an internal committee, headed by the additional director general (CWG), to look into the arrangements and construction-related problems in the 10 stadia constructed, renovated or remodelled by the agency for the Commonwealth Games-2010. The move comes in the wake of reports of leakages at two stadia.

AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh on Saturday asked why the Central Vigilance Commission nominee on the Organising Committee of the Commonwealth Games did not proceed and filed FIRs against those who have committed irregularities in the games projects in New Delhi.

T.S. Darbari, ousted joint director general of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, has sought to clear his name from being associated with charges of financial impropriety regarding an event in London, saying he was not involved in any way in selecting the vendors.

The civil aviation ministry has asked national carrier Air India and private airlines Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines to operate three flights each to Leh on Sunday to bring back stranded persons. However, all the airlines have been asked not to charge excessive fares from stranded passengers who are being brought back. A large