Heavy rains lashed the national capital on Saturday resulting in traffic snarls in many areas due to water logging.

In an effort to implement the Right To Education Act, the revolutionary law guaranteeing education as a right for children between six and 14 years, the government has reworked the share of the Centre

Fissures in Opposition unity over the price rise issue are clearly visible: while the BJP-led NDA remains adamant on a vote in Parliament, the Left is looking for a face-saving forumula and the Mandalite parties are giving different signals.

The CBI, probing the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, is likely to question Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in this connection. It is also likely to file a status report with the Supreme Court in a few days, in which it is expected to argue that questioning Mr Modi is crucial to ascertaining certain facts in the case.

British Prime Minister David Cameron ended his India visit just the way he began: on a candid note. He told Pakistan “clearly and plainly” that it needs to crack down on and eliminate terrorist groups which target not just India but also Afghanistan, the streets of London and elsewhere — remarks highlighting the threat posed by terrorism

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in fairly strong remarks at a joint press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron here on Thursday, ticked off Pakistan’s foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, saying that the recent fiasco at the latter’s Islamabad press conference (with external affairs minister S.M. Krishna) “could have been avoided”.

In a unique murder case where victim’s body was carried by a gang of five accused with them after spraying bullets into him and never recovered but they later had taken the defence that no killing had taken place as a person of the same name “surfaced” in Rajasthan, the Supreme Court has applied the Irish principle of “corpus delicti” of decide the case.

The aircraft carrying British Prime Minister David Cameron had just about landed on Wednesday evening at the New Delhi IGI airport when the Autotrack-III air traffic control system and its radar had begun to malfunction.

Giving a timeline for overcoming the growing Naxal menace in the country, home minister P. Chidambaram assured parliamentarians that the problem of Left-Wing extremism would be overcome in the next three years.

Naxal disruptions in the Left-Wing extremism affected districts impacting the progress of rural road and housing development schemes has left the government worried.
Sources said the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana aimed at improving rural road connectivity and the Indira Awas Yojana, to provide housing options to the poor, of the rural development ministry have not faired well in the 35 LWE districts in the country.