Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia on Saturday gave altogether a new dimension to the much debated huge pendency of cases with the judiciary, saying in real term the arrear of old cases was only a little over one crore not three crore forcing President Pratibha Devi Singh Patil to call for review of the figure.

The contracts awarded to a foreign firm by the organising committee of the Commonwealth Games 2010, led by Suresh Kalmadi, for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Games are now under the scanner of the Enforcement Directorate.

Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections are going to be an “expensive affair” with the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party already starting resource mobilisation on a large scale. The Congress, too, is not lagging behind.

Concerned over the CBI probe, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, who prefers handling his own affairs, is now in regular touch with the party’s top brass in New Delhi.

The Delhi high court has said an organisation cannot be forced to disclose information under the RTI Act just because it is substantially financed by PSUs and held that the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance (IIBF) is not a public authority.

The Delhi BJP will stage a dharna on Parliament Street in New Delhi on the issue of alleged financial bungling in the Games projects.
Delhi BJP president Vijender Gupta and a senior leader Madan Lal Khurana said that the manner in which the preparations were going on would lower the image of the country before the Commonwealth nations that are supposed to participate in the event.

Visitors at the Commonwealth Games will now have an easy interaction with the local police. The city government, after a recommendation by Organ-ising Committee officials during a recent Cabinet meeting, has decided to deploy its complaint cell officials at all Games sites.

The Ghaziabad administration has decided to conduct an inquiry into the allegations that untreated industrial waste is allegedly being discharged into Ramsar fresh water site that contains Ganga water. The site, located in western UP, has been set up to protect water bodies from getting contaminated due to heavy discharge of industrial pollutants.

The south Delhi police has registered a case under sections 363 (kidnapping) and 511 (attempt to commit offences which attract life punishment) of the Indian Penal Code against two Nigerian nationals following allegations that one of them tried to kidnap a child from a locality in Mehrauli area on Friday evening.

All the major roads in the city, particularly in the central and south zones, remained submerged in the early part of Saturday, following a heavy downpour. There were at least two instances of roads caving-in and nearly 20 trees were uprooted across the city. Waterloggi-ng was reported from nearly 100 places. The weatherman said that the city received 62.5 mm of rain since Saturday morning and more is in store on Sunday.