Former sports minister Mani Shankar Aiyar was labelled “anti-national” by Commonwealth Games organising committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi after the senior Congress leader’s critical comments on the quadrennial event.

Describing the rotting of food stock as a “criminal” waste of resources, the Supreme Court on Tuesday sought details from the Union food ministry on why adequate storage facilities had not been provided.

The issue of price rise, if voted on in the two Houses of Parliament, will expose at least five major parties which are either part of the Centre or support it from the outside, and the fence-sitters.

Both Houses of Parliament were adjourned on Tuesday following the Opposition’s protests over price rise and its demand for a discussion on the issue under motions that entail voting, a move rejected by the government.

The Union home ministry has issued an advisory to all Naxal-affected states and the railways asking them to deploy an adequate number of security personnel in sensitive areas and strengthen security measures to guard the railway tracks against Maoists attacks during the martyrs’ week or “Shahid Saptah” being observed by the

The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed all states to monitor the construction of religious structures on public land, saying this has emerged as a “gigantic” problem as huge chunk of government land is being encroached upon with such structures across the country.

Agricultural scientist M.S. Swaminathan has warned that India’s food security is being steadily imperilled by the sharp decline in agricultural growth.
Speaking on the Ministry of Earth Sciences Foundation Day Lecture 2010, Dr Swaminathan warned that in 2005-6, the agricultural growth was 5.2 per cent of GDP but according to Planning Commission statistics, it has dipped to 0.2 per cent in 2009-10.

The new integrated Terminal-3 at the New Delhi IGI airport will witness the start of continuous international operations from Wednesday evening, with the arrival of an Air India flight from New York at 4.45 pm. However, domestic operations will begin from the T-3 only from August 27.

One of the country’s largest infrastructure projects, the railways Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFCC), has been promised a whopping $2.5 billion by the World Bank for it. This money will be used to build the eastern corridor of this ambitious project which also has on the anvil the construction of a western freight corridor.

India’s first woman photojournalist, 97-year-old Homai Vyarawalla, has been selected for the first-ever national photography award for her contribution to the field before and after the Partition.