Lieutenant-governor Tejendra Khanna on Saturday presided over a high-level meeting attended by Union Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrashekhar and head of various agencies to hammer out inter-departmental issues coming in the ways of the preparations of the Commonwealth Games.

A 29-year-old youth was shot dead by two unidentified men when he tried to resist their attempt to snatch the chain of his wife in the Bhajanpura area of east Delhi. The deceased, Ganesh Puri, an MNC employee, succumbed to injuries at GTB hospital early Saturday.

WHERE THERE is Anamika Khanna, there is oodles of pizzazz. And she proved it yet again during her couture show at the ongoing Delhi Couture Week.
Her look is global. Her designs are quirky and she effortlessly blends modern with traditional. As an army of fashionistas adorned the front row, Anamika sent out models in jackets, shrugs, gowns, lehengas, blouses and short dresses in velvet, net, georgette and khadi silk.

The Prime Mini-ster’s Economic Advisory Council on Friday recommended a tightening of monetary policy to rein in double-digit inflation just days before the Reserve Bank’s scheduled policy review on Tuesday.

As the headcount to determine the country’s population is on, the Supreme Court, in a stinging ruling, questioned the government’s census parameters which place housewives and women engaged in domestic work in the same economic bracket as “prostitutes, beggars and prisoners”.

In another blow to the Bihar administration, the latest report of the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India, released Friday, has found major irregularities in delivering over 3,000 quintals of foodgrain meant for flood-affected people in the state.

Angry over the CBI’s summons to Gujarat’s minister of state for home Amit Shah, who happens to be chief minister Narendra Modi’s close aide, senior BJP leaders on Friday turned down Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s invitation to lunch, saying they were doing so as the “environment was not cordial”. The main Opposition party also accused the government of “misusing the CBI for political gain”.

The farm ministry is getting jitters over 14 per cent monsoon deficiency in peak of kharif-sowing season even as policy planners are pondering on ways to improve agriculture production in the long-run.

Having stripped the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) virtually of all its catering functions, the railway ministry is now busy blaming the public sector undertaking for failing to deliver quality food on board trains.

The Enforcement Directorate has served notice to Anil Kohli, chief of the Dental Council of India (DCI) asking him to furnish the details about his foreign visits. Besides, ED has also sought details of foreign exchange purchased or obtained during his foreign visits.