‘Solution in enforcing laws, not new bodies’
It is hard to find anyone in the country who does not believe that corruption is not hitting us in the gut. Some like Justice J.S. Narang, formerly of the Punjab and Haryana high court, however wonder just how many institutions would we go on creating to deal with a malady.
Metro to bring G’zbad closer
The Delhi Metro is set to cross inter-state border once again with the deadline to connect Ghaziabad with the capital coming closer as the trial runs began on Thursday.
BJD, CPI are at odds over acquisition of land
The Communist Party of India is now precariously positioned vis-à-vis the ruling Biju Janata Dal, its ally, in Orissa.
While the party does not want any displacement of local people in Dhinka, a part of the Posco project site near port town Paradip in Orissa Jagatsinghpur district, the BJD headed by CM Naveen Patnaik is hell-bent on pushing
Despite high cut-off, seats in colleges fill up fast
Students rushed to their favourite Delhi University colleges across the capital to fulfil the admission formalities on Thursday as many of the total number of seats in select courses at the high-profile colleges were exhausted on the first day.
Disgruntled SP leaders wage poetic war
Dissent over ticket distribution in the Samajwadi Party is now finding its way to posters and hoardings and disgruntled party leaders who have been deni-ed tickets are expressing their angst through poetry.
This sequence of photographs
This sequence of photographs shows the moon being covered by the shadow of the earth during the total lunar eclipse as seen from New Delhi early on Thursday.
Saturday meet to seal Munde fate
BJP deputy leader in the Lok Sabha Gopinath Munde’s fate will be decided in the party’s meeting in Delhi on Saturday.
MV Suez refused Indian Navy help?
The Indian Navy on Thursday said the freed Egyptian merchant vessel MV Suez did not respond to communications from the Indian Navy ship INS Godavari after the naval ship reached the merchant vessel on Thursday to escort it.
Cong tracks Munde, Gadkari standoff
The Congress is watching developments in the BJP, especially the fight between the BJP chief Nitin Gadkari and the party’s deputy leader in the Lok Sabha, Gopoinath Munde, viewing that its outcome is going to strengthen the Congress further.
ED unearths Dimasa rebels’ China link
The Enforcement Directorate has forwarded a letter of request, issued by the court, to the external affairs ministry to start a process of confiscating properties owned by rebel leaders of outlawed Dima Halim Daogah abroad.