The Shiv Sena on Thursday urged President Pratibha Patil to consider the noted film artiste Sulochana for the coveted Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the highest national honours in the field of Indian film industry. Shiv Sena MP Bharatkumar Raut requested the President to consider Ms Sulochana for the highest award. She will be turning 82 on Friday.

Caught in a classic catch-22 situation, the JD(U) is searching for answers to deal with party heavyweight and Lok Sabha MP Rajiv Ranjan (Lallan) Singh, who is working behind the doors to provide much needed oxygen to the Congress in Bihar. Further testing nerves of the JD(U), Mr Singh has dared the party to take action against him

At a time when it was feared that the Babhali project row between the states of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra would flare up into a big confrontation, it has been confirmed that there would be a meeting of the chief ministers’ conference of the concerned states in the presence of the Prime Minister. The meeting is to be convened on August 2. It is believed that Union water resources minister P.K. Bansal too would be present at the meeting.

Rajya Sabha MP Mani Shankar Aiyar, who hit the limelight on Tuesday for his unsavoury remarks on the Commonwealth Games, on Thursday, said, he would open his mouth on the issue only after October 15, the day when the event gets over. He also informed that he has been advised to keep mum till the Games get over.

Three persons, including a former call centre employee, have been arrested by the east Delhi police for allegedly kidnapping a software engineer. The police has recovered the robbed Wagon-R of the victim and also seized the Santro car used by the accused in the crime.

Government hospitals like Safdarjung and Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital offering cancer treatment do not have linear accelerators, which are used in radiation therapy for treating cancer patients. Instead, they use Cobalt 60 machines that lack in precision and have side effects. Safdarjung Hospital has over 30-year-old department of oncology that offers cancer treatment.

Asking passengers to dismount from atop the railway bogies of a train took a violent turn at a railway station in Ghaziabad on Thursday with more than a dozen policemen and nearly the same number of passengers getting injured in the clash.

The Delhi BJP on Thursday demanded from chief minister Sheila Dikshit that she should sack state revenue minister Raj Kumar Chauhan immediately after the commissioner of Commercial Taxes Jalaj Srivastava testified against the minister.

Delhi University vice-chancellor Prof. Deepak Pental has clarified that the implementation of semester system is not subjudice and that it remains in force as announced at all times. He also warned the teaching community to implement the semester system or else action will be taken against the erring ones.

So far, not satisfied with the Commonwealth Games preparations, security heads of 31 participating nations, including Pakistan, on Thursday visited the Commonwealth Games sites to have a look at the security arrangements. To add to the woes, only eight security heads of the Commonwealth nations have so far confirmed their