Steering clear of controversial issues like action against 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed, New Delhi set the ball rolling for furthering the peace dialogue and reducing the “trust deficit” with Islamabad at the talks between home secretary G.K. Pillai and Pakistan’s interior secretary Qamar Zaman Chaudhary, which ended here on Tuesday.

A chance moment summed it all up beautifully.
For all the sound and fury raging around them — airtight security, sniffer dogs and bomb disposal units, anti-aircraft missile batteries and diplomatic initiatives involving

Union human resource development minister Kapil Sibal said that Urdu will be introduced as a subject at school-level across the country as it is not a language of Muslims only but a language of the whole country.

Upholding a Sessions court’s order, the Delhi high court on Tuesday awarded rigorous life imprisonment to political activist Hari Singh for hijacking an Indian Airlines flight in March 1993 but asked the government to suitably commute his sentence as he had committed the crime “to make a political point.”

The Delhi high court on Tuesday sought the presence of an official of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) and asked him to clarify certain findings of the report which indicted 25 private schools for accounting malpractice, including faking loss.

A 42-year-old woman was strangulated by her domestic help, who later slit her throat and escaped with cash and jewellery worth lakhs from an outer Delhi residence on Monday night.

After the privatisation of electricity distribution, it now seems imminent for water distribution to take the same turn as Delhi Jal Board in its annual budget, presented to chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday, has proposed to undertake reform in Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) mode step-by-step of the city.

Delhi Metro managing director E Sreedharan asked the frequency and speed of Airport Express Link to be increased after a surprise inspection of the Airport Express Metro link on Tuesday.

Delhi Assembly Speaker Yoganand Shastri on Tuesday blamed the Opposition BJP for premature adjournment of the House for indefinite period.
Dr Shastri stated that after the Opposition disturbed the proceedings of the House it was difficult for him to conduct the House in the days ahead.

Hitting back at the Shunglu Committee report, a three-member panel constituted by the Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday sent a 19-page preliminary response to the PMO stating that the high-powered panel’s observations on irregularities in several CWG projects is a “product of paranoia” and is “full of contradictions” and “anomalies”. The panel alleged that the report was aimed at causing damage to the administration and its political executives.