With all the political parties having made up their mind on the use of Tamil in Chennai high court, the Congress alone has become the odd man out. When pointedly asked about the stand of the Congress, party spokesperson Manish Tewari said that the party is yet to form its view. When pressed further, he said there

The group of ministers (GoM) on caste-based census headed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has not met even for once to deliberate on the issue. Sensing this as a delaying tactic, the Yadav troika — Mulayam, Lalu and Sharad — is once again re-grouping and has threatened to launch a nationwide agitation ahead of the Monsoon Session of Parliament scheduled to begin in the third week of July.

A day after surveying the Commonwealth Games venues as well as the athletes village, Commonwealth Games Federation president Mike Fennell met the executive board of the Organising Committee in the capital on Sunday.

With the race for the Commonwealth Games heating up, the teams and coaches have begun to chart out their plans for the mega event.
For the Indian hockey team, that opportunity lies in the month-long European tour beginning July 3, where they will face the likes of world number 2 Germany and third-ranked Holland.

The Delhi high court has directed the Centre to constitute a taskforce to ensure compliance of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) norms for manufacturing and selling packed drinking water in the city.

A fleet of vintage cars is being readied for ferrying VIPs during the Commonwealth Games.
Carrying the Commonwealth logos, these customised vintage cars including Bentley, Chevrolet, Auburn Speedster, Stutz, Cadillac, Triumph and Rolls-Royce will also be utilised for carrying visitors for “Dilli Darshan” tour around the city.

To prevent recurrence of any Mayapuri-type radiation leak, the Delhi Government will soon procure sophisticated equipment to scan vulnerable areas where such exposure may take place.

Three persons, including a sharphooter, were arrested in the national capital in connection with the murder of a businessman in the Katwaria Sarai area early on June.
Anil Jaat (32), a sharphooter of the notorious Ashok Rathi gang, Nitin (25) and Vikash (26) were arrested on Saturday following a tip-off, additional commissioner of police (crime) Neeraj Thakur said.

A city court has held that the bride’s side also needed to be prosecuted if the evil of the dowry was to be curbed. The observations of the court came while hearing the petition of a woman seeking quashing of criminal charges of dowry against her family. The complaint was filed by her husband, who was facing dowry charges, following which a lower court had earlier directed registration of FIR against the bride’s family in October last year.

Just how would be the weather during the Commonwealth Games-2010? The weather department would have liked to answer the question in much greater detail. However, with only 97 days left for the Games, it will have to “observe” and “forecast” with the help of 13 automatic weather station (AWS), against a planned 60 such stations.