After hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) of an academician, who sought making yoga a part of the health and physical education in schools, a division bench comprising Delhi high court Chief Justice Dipak Mishra and Justice Manmohan on Wednesday issued notice to the ministry of human resource development (HRD) and the NCERT seeking their replies by September 22.

Union minister of state for communications and IT, Gurudas Kamat on Wednesday met environment minister Jairam Ramesh and strongly pleaded for the clearance of Navi Mumbai International Airport. Mr Ramesh is expected to visit Mumbai at the end of this month for a on-the-spot study of the problems faced in re-development of the

Chandrayaan-II project, expected to be launched in 2011, is being designed to ensure the failures that afflicted Chandrayaan-I will not surface in this newer venture. Minister of science & technology Prithviraj Chavan told the Lok Sabha. that Chandrayaan-II will be receiving major technological inputs from Russia.

Shifting the onus on service providers, offering BlackBerry services through their networks, the government on Wednesday said that it is the responsibility of service providers like Airtel, Vodafone and BSNL to give access to security agencies to monitor information on smart phones.

Making Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh point in case for failing the country to achieve desired total fertility rate (TFR), health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday said, population growth was a matter of “serious concern”, as it had an adverse impact on the available national resources.

The tussle between the states of Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh over Babhali project affected the proceedings of the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. The Speaker was forced to adjourn the House twice over the issue.

Don’t fret. Even finance minister Pranab Mukherjee is not immune to unsolicited calls from loan companies.
On Monday morning, when Mr Mukherjee was having intense discussions to break the price rise logjam with leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, her counterpart in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley and other leaders, he got a call on his mobile.

The Opposition BJP targeted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the inability of the government to control inflation. In both the Houses of Parliament the Opposition leaders charged the government with insensitivity on the price rise issue and mismanagement of food economy.

The CBI has registered the first case in connection with alleged irregularities being detected in various Commonwealth Games projects.
The case has been registered against three officials of the Central Institute of Road Transport (CIRT), Pune, and two representatives of bus manufacturers, Ashok L

Commonwealth Games organising committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi has a lot of explaining to do, if the mood in the corridors of South Block is any indicator.
The ministry of external affairs (MEA), headed by Mr S.M. Krishna, is understood to have taken the view that Mr Kalmadi and his colleagues have caused enough d