Aiming to include the homeless in the 2011 Census and providing them facilities accordingly, chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday launched a survey for them with assistance from UN Development Programme.

Scores of trees were felled in the Indian Institute of Technology in south Delhi on Thursday night.
Officials sources revealed that almost 50 trees were felled overnight and were transported out of the campus early on Friday in two trucks. The trees are being levelled for construction of a new faculty block and other construction by central public works department on the campus.

The CBI has filed a chargesheet against Mr Manoj Modi, a top lieutenant of RIL chairman, Mr Mukesh Ambani, and five others in a case relating to masking of international calls as local, causing huge revenue loss to the government.

Telecom companies and their industry body COAI have asked telecom regulator Trai to blacklist telemarketers, who violate ‘Do-Not-Call Registry’ and sent unsolicited SMSs or calls to subscribers.

National security adviser Shivshankar Menon will visit China for four days, from July 3 to 6, in his capacity as special envoy of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He will hold talks with state councillor Dai Bingguo, China’s special representative for the Sino-Indian boundary talks.

The Delhi high court on Thursday directed former defence minister George Fernandes’ wife to produce the 80-year-old leader before it on Monday to ascertain what the ailing leader wants before deciding on a dispute between her and his brothers.

The presence of CPI(M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury on the dais with DMK supremo M. Karuananidhi at the World Tamil Classical Conference in Coimbatore has sent a clear signal of the growing proximity between the Mar-xists and the DMK, which is part of the ruling United Progressive Alliance.

Escalating Maoist violence has forced the government to order the redeployment of security forces engaged in anti-Naxal operations in the states to prevent exposing paramilitary forces to the well-armed rebels in their strongholds.

The spurt in “honour killings” might have forced the government to decide amending of the Special Marriage Act to do away with the mandatory one-month notice for registration of civil marriages to ensure that the inter-caste and inter-religious liaisons get prompt legal recognition, ironically it had “ignored” the law commission recommendations in this regard for nearly two years.

The indigenously developed ballistic missile defence system will be test fired in August this year, a top defence official said on Thursday.
“Now the (ballistic missile defence system) test is going to be conducted in the month of August during which we will try to intercept a missile at altitudes of 15-20 kilometres,” DRDO chief V.K. Saraswat told reporters here.