Political equations in Maharashtra appear to be changing with the Raj Thackeray-led Mahassrashtra Navnirman Sena moving closer to the Congress, the Shiv Sena getting isolated and the Sharad Pawar-led NCP making a retreat to win a second seat in the recently held biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha.

After paintings by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore were snapped up for a record £1.6 million in Sotheby’s recent London auction, another upcoming auction is including art by the Tagores in its repe

The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to rural development minister C.P. Joshi and Election Commission on an appeal by BJP MLA from Rajasthan on the issue of ‘tender” votes ordered to be counted by the state high court on Mr Joshi’s election petition on his one-vote defeat in the 2008 Assembly polls.

The special cell of the Delhi police has arrested an alleged militant affiliated with the banned People’s United Liberation Front (PULF) along with his associate from Hazrat Nizamuddin area of southeast Delhi on Tuesday.

The Delhi Metro will throw open the Qutub Minar-Gurgaon line on June 21. The long-awaited inaugural of the stretch will clear way for the Qutub Minar-Central Secretariat stretch of the Gurgaon metro line.

The Ghaziabad administration on Wednesday deployed personnel of the Rapid Action Force (RAF) to prevent anybody from taking over at the Sonia Vihar head regulator, through which Ganga water reaches Delhi’s Sonia Vihar water treatment plant, in Muradnagar.

With the release of the Annual Plan 2010-11, the Delhi government on Wednesday confirmed approval of Rs 11,400 crores in the plan outlay. The plan size will be funded with the Central Plan Assistance of Rs 1,284 crores and the Delhi government’s own resources of Rs 10,116 crores, stated Delhi government officials.
The Annual Plan was released after a meeting between the Delhi government and Planning Commission officials.

The Indraprastha Gas Limited, provider of CNG in the capital and its surrounding areas, has increased the price by over 25 per cent. The new rates will become effective from midnight on Wednesday.

Widening the ambit of domestic violence, which was essentially meant to protect the women, a Delhi court in a significant ruling has said that a woman having no source of earning is entitled to seek maintenance even from her adopted son(s) and married daughter(s) under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence (DV) Act. After hearing the plea of a 70-year-old widow, Krishna, who moved the sessions court against the order of a metropolitan magistrate (MM) court, additional sessions judge

The Indian women’s hockey team beat Canada 3-2 in the first test at the Tamanawis Park in Surrey on Wednesday, according to a Hockey India release.
India opened the scoring through captain Surinder Kaur from a penalty corner in the 15th minute. Thea Culley levelled it for Canada in the 41st minute, before Ritu Rani g