While truckloads of Commonwealth Games literature, seized from the Organising Committee (OC) office was handed to an NGO for recycling, sources have now pointed out that organisations investigating the CWG scam will now question former OC chairman Suresh Kalmadi on why the literature was not used.

After unprecedented dengue cases reported in the capital last year, the Delhi government has now decided to rope in schoolchildren to spread awareness about breeding of aedis mosquito larvae. The Delhi government had faced flaks after the capital city reported about 6,259 dengue case last year. However, this year, the city

Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday heard the environmental concerns of a group of residents of areas near to the Waste to Energy Plant at Sukhdev Vihar in Okhla which is yet to be commissioned. The chief minister also spoke to the Union minister of environment Jairam Ramesh on the concerns of the residents.

A 58-year-old MCD employee, who was in a critical condition after consuming adulterated buck wheat, died in a city hospital on Wednesday. Meanwhile, a special team of the Delhi police arrested an owner of a flour mill for allegedly manufacturing the adulterated flour, along with 11 shopkeepers for allegedly selling the contaminated material.

Setting an example for others to emulate, the head of transparency watchdog CIC, Mr Satyanand Mishra, and his five colleagues have made their assets public.
The consensus was arrived at among the information commissioners in a meeting last month, where it was also decided to update the information annually.

In a calculative move to put more pressure on the Congress-led UPA government against the corruption issue, the main Opposition BJP had decided to ask its chief ministers to implement the Special Court’s Act 2009, as implemented by the NDA-ruled Bihar and recently implemented by BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh.

The Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led Madhya Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party government has come under attack from the main Opposition Congress following the Supreme Court order on Wednesday declaring as null and void the allotment of 20 acres of land in Bhopal to the Kushabhau Thakre Training Institute Trust.

In a major embarrassment to the BJP taking a high moral ground against the UPA government on the issue of corruption and propriety, the Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed the allotment of a huge chunk of land by party’s Madhya Pradesh government to a trust formed in the memory of the late leader Kushabhau Thakre.

Senior BJP leader L.K. Advani here on Wednesday extended his support to social activist Anna Hazare and advocated enactment of the Lokpal Bill by incorporating the changes in the forthcoming session of Parliament.

Strong anti-politician sentiment among the social activists marked the second day of the fast-unto-death of Anna Hazare at Jantar Mantar, who has been demanding a Jan Lokpal Bill to be drafted with the participation of the civil society to be passed by the Parliament.