Now that the dreaded exams are history, youngsters can look forward to a new chapter in their lives. College time!

Taking a cue from his mother and party president Sonia Gandhi, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday stressed the need for continuance of the existing partnership between New Delhi and Tamil Nadu, which had helped the state’s economic progress.

The parliamentary standing committee on law and justice has disfavoured doing away with the mandatory six-month waiting period before annulment of marriage under a proposed bill aimed at making “irretrievable breakdown of marriage” a new ground for divorce.

As Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman Murli Manohar Joshi intends to take on the UPA on the 2G spectrum allocation scam, differences have surfaced within the committee. A section of PAC members have begun questioning Dr Joshi’s authority. The Congress had earlier described Dr Joshi’s decisions as PAC chairman as “politically motivated”.

The on-going movement for a strong Lokpal Bill to help check corruption claimed its first casualty on Wednesday with NCP leader and Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar expressing his desire, in a letter to the Prime Minister, to resign from the group of ministers (GoM) on corruption. His resignation offer came after noted social activist Anna Hazare raised questions about his trustworthiness as a member of this GoM.

An assistant professor of Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar College has been suspended in the wake of the charges of sexual harrassment.

With the arrest of an Afghan and a Nigerian national, the Delhi police has seized 1.6 kg of heroin worth over Rs 3 crores.
The accused, who were apprehended from an area near to the Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology in Dwarka, have been identified as 32-year-old Mohammad Sarwar and 27-year-old Emeka Paul.

The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) on Wednesday informed the Delhi high court that it will be taking help from the Japan International Cooperation Agency’s (JICA) for preparing the “Water Master Plan” to end the water crisis in Delhi. Appearing before a division bench comprising Chief Justice of Delhi HC Dipak Misra and Justice Reva Khetrapal,

Two people were charred to death and property worth lakhs was gutted in two separate fires reported from the national capital.
A man was electrocuted when he tried to snap the electricity line that had triggered a fire in central Delhi’s Chandni Mahal on Tuesday night in which a man was charred to death.