A student of Class 9 allegedly fired at his schoolmate with an air-pistol following an argument over a trivial issue in the school’s playground at Saket in south Delhi on Wednesday. The incident occurred in a government-aided school.

A large number of Jat community members demanding reservation in jobs attempted to storm the Commonwealth Games office on Wednesday afternoon but were prevented by police.

The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) is taking the ambitious step of relocating 18 cheetahs from Iran, Namibia, South Africa and West Asia to three wildlife reserves in India.

Recently-retired Sri Lankan spin great Muttiah Muralitharan responded to long-time critic Bishan Singh Bedi on Thursday, calling the former India captain an “ordinary bowler” and a “controversy monger”.

The Central Vigilance Comm-ission (CVC) has found alleged irregularities in several projects related to the Commonwealth Games being carried out by various civic and construction agencies in the national capital.

The CBI, which is probing the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, is also looking into the ballistics report, besides the forensic report, of the weapon used to kill him.

The Opposition made a valiant bid to corner the government on the price rise issue in both Houses of Parliament on Wednesday, but Speaker Meira Kumar came to the rescue of the treasury benches in the Lok Sabha by ruling that the adjournment motion moved by the Opposition could not be admitted.

The Supreme Court has ruled that a person cannot take the plea of consensual sex and he can be convicted for rape if the victim had consented to the act out of fear.
Moreover, the apex court said that seldom does a victim or the family falsely implicate a person as the stigma would only ruin their reputation and rejected the plea that the complaint was lodged after four months.

A renewed attempt by the Union human resource ministry for streamlining teachers training facilities in the country has revealed that a large number of teacher training institutes are running without proper infrastructure or instruction facilities. As a result of its inspection drive across the country the National Council for Teacher Education has withdrawn the recognition of 585 institutes over a period of about 18 months.

Civil aviation minister Praful Patel on Wednesday ordered the DGCA to audit all aviation training institutes, even as the DGCA is all set to frame regulations regarding an “Effective Fatigue Management System” which will be then despatched to airlines for strict implementation. The issue of pilot and crew fatigue is crucial since the Mangalore aircrash is suspected to have occurred on account of the pilot’s error of judgement.