BJP chief Nitin Gadkari’s efforts to bring back former party leader and saffron sanyasin Uma Bharti in the party suffered another setback after differences among party leaders on the issue came to the fore.

RJD and LJP chiefs Lalu Prasad Yadav and Ram Vilas Paswan, respectively, will jointly kickstart electioneering for this year’s Bihar Assembly elections by airdashing 40 places in the state in 10 days beginning this Friday. The two parties are also set to finalise seat-sharing arrangement in the next 10 days, while Mr Paswan stated on Wednesday that “now there is no scope for any other party to join their alliance”.

Around 400 police personnel from the neighbouring states might be deployed with the Delhi police for the Commonwealth Games security. The order will be issued if the next Cabinet meeting of the Delhi government approves the police personnel deputation in the city.

Two days after rain chaos in the city, the MCD on Wednesday dusted its old solution to the problem of waterlogging on Delhi roads. Municipal commissioner K.S. Mehra told the MCD’s standing committee that the MCD was working on a multi-agency coordinated response plan that would effectively tackle the problem of waterlogging.

The Delhi high court on Wednesday directed the principal district and sessions judge to instruct all trial court judges to put bail orders on the Internet t make it easily accessible to all the undertrial prisoners and convicts lodged in various jails in the city.

Around 3,000 school buses in neighbouring Gurgaon and Noida will be off roads during the Commonwealth Games to overcome traffic congestion and allow smooth movement to tourists to the Games venues. The schools falling in the main city areas will be closed, while those in the outer areas will be spared.
A decision to shut down the schools and colleges in the city during the event has already been taken.

With two deaths due to H1N1 being reported in the city, the hospital authorities have begun gearing up to ensure that the disease does not spread.
At least two other persons admitted in the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash hospital are said to be in a stable condition, though not completely out of danger. At RML hospital, an Australian woman, who was put on ventilator, is now reported be recovering.

The residents of the area in northwest Delhi’s Usmanpur where a house collapsed on Wednesday, killing six people, said the tenants on the ground floor of the building had vacated the premises on Tuesday evening.

A 25-year-old youth was assaulted and his left hand was almost chopped off by a customer when he demanded Rs 600 repair charges from him in the east Delhi’s Mandawali area.

The government is planning to make sweeping changes to the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, including substantively raising the compensation amount as also reframing it so that some quantum of liability is placed on the suppliers.