To give tourists visiting the capital during the Commonwealth Games-2010 a helping hand in dealing with harassment of any kind or to provide information about various things, the Delhi government is coming up with a 24-hour helpline.

The petrol and diesel prices may go up once again with petrol pump owners demanding a hike in their commissions. They are threatening to launch a nation-wide agitation and strike if their demand is not fulfilled.

Succession has been the enigma at the over $71 billion corporate giant Tatas, and the appointment of Mr Noel Tata, as the chairman of Tata Investment Corporation, has triggered speculation that he will step into the shoes of his half brother, Mr Ratan Tata as chairman of the conglomerate. Mr Noel, 53, was appointed the chairman of TIC, the non-banking financial arm of the Tata group last week to succeed Mr N. A. Soonawala, as the non-executive chairman.

The government is apparently concerned about the functioning of three key ministries — railways, communications and information technology and chemicals and fertilisers. While the railway minister is Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, the ministries of communications and information technology and chemicals and

The government’s decision to hike fuel prices is consolidating Opposition parties, which hit the streets in many states enforcing strikes in Kerala, Orissa and West Bengal. While the ruling Congress is on the defensive, its allies at the Centre are refusing to defend the decision.

Amidst reports received by the Union home ministry of radical Hindu outfits hand in the 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings, the government is considering clubbing all “Hindu terror” related cases to be handed over to one investigating agency.

The National Advisory Council headed by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi appears to be driving the Food Security Bill, pushing the empowered Group of Ministers on food, headed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, to the back seat. Concerned over the delay in drafting of the key legislation, which was promised in the Congress manifesto in the 2009 general elections, the NAC chairperson has asked the members to work on it with a “sense of urgency”.

Ahead of a proposed visit within the next fortnight by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to install the foundation stone of an international terminal at Tirupati airport in Andhra Pradesh, there is uncertainty over who will fund the construction of the new terminal there.

Handling of the Bhopal gas tragedy case by the then Arjun Singh government initially might cause sufficient legal hurdles for the government and the CBI to prepare the curative petition against the 1996 Supreme Court judgement dropping the charge of “culpable homicide not amounting to murder” against the UCIL officials.

A mini Bhopal-type tragedy has happened near Indore with six workers hospitalised on Friday afternoon after being nearly blinded by poisonous fumes emanating from an incineration plant in Pithampur near Indore.