The BJP chief Nitin Gadkari, who returns after a fortnight-long vacation-cum-business trip in Europe, is being held responsible for the Jharkhand mess. All those supporting Mr Gadkari, including senior leader Mr Ananth Kumar and Mr Rajnath Singh have washed their hands off.

The Delhi government and the Common-wealth Games Organising Committee on Thursday finalised a series of events to be staged across the city to offer a taste of country’s folklore, music and dance to the visitors during Games. The Delhi government has selected 15 venues in the city where cultural festivals will be held regularly during the course of the event to be held from October 3 to 14.

The searing heat in the capital abated to some extent on Thursday even as the maximum temperature reached 43.8 degrees Celsius. Dust haze and partly cloudy sky accompanied with wind marked the latter part of the day.

Relying on dying declaration as sacrosanct, the Delhi high court refused to grant respite to a man who set his wife on fire in a fit of rage when she refused to have intercourse with him. While upholding the judgement of a trial court, a bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul said, “A dying declaration is sacrosanct as it is the

The file pertaining to Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru’s mercy petition is likely to be sent to Union home ministry by lieutenant-governor Tejendra Khanna within a week.

The CBSE Class 10 board result will be out today at 10 am. Students from schools affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education are awaiting their results with mixed feelings as they will get grades instead of marks this year.

The Delhi University admission process is all set to kickstart today with the beginning of sale of forms at 16 centres across the city amidst uncertainty regarding implementation of the semester system. The session 2010-11 will also witness the third phase of OBC quota implementation that started three years ago.

The “failure” of security at a top hotel in Delhi, which resulted in a major security breach on Monday, has thrown up many disturbing questions about the security set up at the top city hotels in the wake of Mumbai terror attacks even as the Delhi police keeps sending advisories to the hotels regularly to avert any such strike.

The much touted pact between state-owned power generation utility NTPC Ltd and the Nigerian government for setting up a power plant there in exchange for liquefied natural gas has lapsed, a company official said on Thursday.

Aditya Birla Retail Ltd (ABRL) on Thursday said that it will increase focus on its private labels business and is looking to introduce its own branded consumer durables and electronics products by 2012.