Two men suffered injures when a tyre of a Blueline bus burst, causing the bus to ram into four vehicles on the BRT corridor in Ambedkar Nagar on Wednesday evening.

Taking strong exception to the MCD’s concealing facts in its affidavit in the ghost employees scam, the Delhi high court on Wednesday asked the civic agency to make its stand clear whether salary was paid to such employees.

After a long wait and series of meeting with state leaders, Bharatiya Janata Party chief Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday appointed Mr Surya Pratap Shahi as the party’s Uttar Pradesh unit chief.

Justice Sarosh Homi Kapadia was sworn in as the new Chief Justice of India by President Pratibha Devisingh Patil in a simple ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Wednesday. The 62-year-old rose to hold the highest constitutional post of the country’s judiciary from a humble background and is the 38th Chief Justice of India.

The operational and logistical preparedness of the CRPF was critically reviewed by home minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday when he met the CRPF top-brass at the paramilitary forces’ headquarters here on Wednesday.

The growing clout of the khap panchayats in Haryana can be gauged from the fact that Baljit Singh Malik, chief of Gathwala khap and three other khaps, has demanded the Hindu Marriage Act (HMA) be amended to prevent marriages within the parent gotras.

Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Wednesday hits out at the regular disruptions of the proceedings of Parliament by stating that “it leads to criminal wastage of huge public money”.
On the criminals entering into politics, the former Speaker said, “This has led to criminalisation of politics or rather politicisation of crime.”

The Rs 72,000 farm loan waiver announced by the UPA government in 2008 appears to have missed the targeted beneficiaries as suicides among small and marginal farmers are on the rise.
According to Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Yudhvir Singh, 2.16 lakh farmers committed suicide during the period 1997-2009.

Members of Parliament would soon get parliamentary bulletins and synopsis through e-mail as soon as they get uploaded on the websites.

Investigation by the CBI into the corruption charges involving Medical Council of India president Ketan Desai has revealed that at least 14 colleges, where non-medical staff were paraded as medical staff during the council’s inspection, were granted permission to continue with their courses.