With 25 days to go for the Commonwealth Games Village to be handed over to the Games organising committee, the authorities are confident that work will be completed on time. There were reports that at some places in the Village certain fittings and furnishings were missing. However, the officials clarified that a few replacements were required as they did not meet the specifications.

Mystery shrouds the death of a junior engineer of the DDA, who was working on the Vasant Kunj flats project related to the Commonwealth Games 2010. He was found dead on railway tracks near Ghaziabad railway station on July 28 afternoon. While the Ghaziabad police is treating it as a case of accidental death and his family

The commuters on the National Highway 24 (NH 24) had a harrowing time in the morning when several vehicles carrying kanwarias took to this particular road from Ghaziabad to Akshardham on Friday morning. The kanwarias have been given the NH 58, which hits Delhi from the Uttar Pradesh side at Dilshad Garden as a dedicated corridor to facilitate their smooth movement.

A contingent of 120 CRPF personnel would soon be joining the United Nations mission in Liberia, where it would provide security cover to its Prime Minister, besides training the war-torn country’s police force.

Fearing any adverse order on the dalit memorial park at Noida, near the national capital, the Mayawati government on Friday readily agreed to the Supreme Court proposal to reduce its covering area to 35 per cent and develop the remaining 65 per cent as forest by a massive re-plantation to compensate axing of nearly 6,000 trees.

The DGCA on Friday stipulated that from August 15 onwards, passengers will be entitled to compensation from airlines in case of flight cancellations by the airlines without adequate notice and in case passengers are denied boarding despite having valid confirmed tickets.

Apart from criticising defective acquisitions for the Army, a report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has attacked the Army commander of the 2 Corps in 2006-07 for constructing a building for a golf club in Ambala cantonment “under the cover of sanctions issued for carrying out special repairs ...”.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday expressed their grief over the loss of lives and property in the flash floods in Leh in Jammu and Kashmir. Dr Singh also announced an ex-gratia relief of Rs 1 lakh each to the kin of the deceased.

Trilateral or tripartite meetings seem to be the order of the day insofar as Afghanistan and its neighbours are concerned. The Presidents of Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan met in Tehran earlier this week. Then there is the Iran-Pakistan-Afghanistan grouping. Now, Iran says it is discussing a similar format of talks with Afghanistan and India.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called a meeting of parties from Jammu and Kashmir on next Tuesday to discuss the current situation in the Valley and ways to address it. During the meeting, the PM is expected to seek views of the political parties of the state on ways to restore peace in the Valley which has been witnessing a cycle of violence since June.