A middle-aged couple was shot dead by armed assailants in northeast Delhi’s Harsh Vihar area in the early hours of Wednesday.

UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi will launch the Central government’s flagship programme National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) at Banswara in Rajasthan on Friday. The Union rural development ministry is targeting over nine crore BPL families in the next seven years through self-help groups under the programme.

President Pratibha Devi Patil has rejected the recommendation of the Delhi Lokayukta to withdraw her pleasure in the continuation of city PWD minister Raj Kumar Chouhan in the council of ministers for his alleged involvement in pressuring tax officials who were carrying out raids at a resort in the capital.

In a surprise move which at the least can be described as eating humble pie, the Hurriyat Conference faction led by Kashmir’s chief Muslim cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has revoked its earlier decision of suspending Jammu and Kashmir Itehad-ul-Muslimeen, one of the founding constituents of the conglomerate, over its leader’s holding a meeting with the Centre’s interlocutors in April this year.

The Delhi high court on Wednesday issued notice to the Centre, the Delhi government and the Tihar Jail chief after hearing a PIL demanding certain changes in parole rules and other provisions to protect the fundamental rights of under-trial prisoners and convicts lodged in the jail.

The CBI has initiated its investigation into the preliminary enquiry (PE) registered to probe criminal aspects, if any, in the allotment of spectrum licences since 2001.

Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan’s remarks praising the agricultural growth of Narendra Modi-run Gujarat has created a controversy.

An Indo-German higher education summit may soon be hosted later this year to explore issues like mutual recognition of qualification and joint research programmes.

Andhra Pradesh state endowments minister Jupally Krishna Rao became the first minister on Tuesday to resign from Mr Kiran Kumar Reddy’s Cabinet citing the Telangana issue.

Against the backdrop of fear expressed in the country, particularly after the recent nuclear crisis in Japan and Germany deciding to dismantle it all nuclear power generating installation by 2022, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has convened a special meeting on Wednesday to discuss issues relating to safety and security of existing and proposed nuclear installations in the country.