Concerned about the misuse of land allotted for setting up of factories in industrial estates, the state government on Friday cancelled allotment of plots to three industrial units on recommendation o

The city will soon witness the deployment of marshals in all busy places.

After receiving replies to all three showcause notices, the BCCI is to convene a special general meeting on July 3 to decide suspended IPL chairman Lalit Modi’s fate.

The call detail records (CDR) of industrialist Anil Nanda have confirmed that he was present in New Delhi’s New Friends Colony area on June 4 when his driver was set on fire, top police officials confirmed. In a related development, the deceased’s brother claimed he received a threat call, allegedly from one of Mr Nanda’s associates, on Friday, asking him to stay away from the case.

The group of ministers (GoM) on the Bhopal gas tragedy, which met for a second consecutive day on Saturday, is trying to decide on whom responsibility should be fixed for the tragedy and its aftermath. The corporate affairs ministry has been asked to find out the details, sources disclosed.

In a major setback to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), the Centre has issued an ordinance upholding the jurisdiction of the Insurance Regulatory Development Authority (IRDA) on unit-linked insurance policies (Ulips).

In a major step towards furthering the education reforms agenda of the UPA-II, the Centre’s proposal to set up NCHER, an overarching body in higher education, received support of state governments at the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) meeting on Saturday. At the CABE meeting, the highest advisory body on education,

The LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan on Saturday stated that his party would stick with the RJD for this year's Bihar Assembly elections. While hinting that the CPI could join the alliance, Mr Paswan stated that it was upto the Congress to decide if the party wanted to join their alliance for the Bihar poll or not. The LJP chief also stated that the onus for the escape of Anderson after the Bhopal gas leak lay with the then MP state government.

As the nation eagerly awaits for the GoM report to the Prime Minister on Bhopal gas tragedy, the ministers’ group surely must have taken note of the hard bargain resorted to by the Union Carbide Corporation to settle for $470 million compensation in 1989 and the Supreme Court making the government accountable to meet any

The government is looking at the option of approaching the Supreme Court with a curative petition against the dilution of charges in the Bhopal gas leak case. The move is understood to have found wide support in the group of ministers set up to re-examine the tragedy and its aftermath and suggest remedial measures in the light of the country-wide outrage following the June 7 judgment of the Bhopal trial court sentencing all the accused to just two years in prison.