Delhi Lieutenant Governor Tejendra Khanna complimented the city government for successfully hosting the Commonwealth Games in his inaugural address to the Delhi Assembly on Tuesday.

Two Tihar inmates made a jailbreak attempt on Tuesday when the jail officials were escorting them back to Jail No. 1 from the Tihar Jail’s De-addiction Centre. However, one of the prisoners was later apprehended while the other is still at large, believed to be inside the complex.

The Delhi Assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution to mourn loss of lives and property in Japan following the devastating earthquake and Tsunami on March 11. The Delhi Assembly legislators also chose the occasion to caution the government to improve disaster management preparedness in the city.

The Budget session of the Delhi Assembly on Tuesday began on a stormy note with the Opposition BJP launching an all-out attack on chief minister Sheila Dikshit to sack the beleaguered PWD minister, Raj Kumar Chouhan, whom the Lokayukta has recommended to be dropped from the council of ministers.

While men have always been painted as the “faster” or more promiscuous gender when it comes to sex, that maxim doesn’t necessarily hold true for the entire species. There is a percentage of the male populace that is willing to wait, or at least take it slow. And these men say their reasons may be varied, but not any less compelling.

The BJP got isolated in the Lok Sabha on Monday over parliamentary affairs minister Pawan Kumar Bansal’s alleged role in a Chandigarh shop allotment scam as neither its NDA allies nor any other party backed it on the issue.

Union finance minister and Congress master strategist Pranab Mukherjee met party president Sonia Gandhi here on Monday evening to brief her on the ongoing seat-sharing negotiations with Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamul Congress for the West Bengal Assembly elections.

The Indian Navy on Saturday apprehended 61 pirates and rescued 13 crew members held hostage after a gunbattle in the Arabian Sea, around 600 nautical miles west of Kochi and 400 nautical miles west of the Lakshadweep Islands. A pirate “mother vessel” (large boat captured by pirates and used as a base) was destroyed in the exchange of fire between the Navy and the pirates.

Suspected Ulfa rebels on Monday triggered a powerful bomb blast at Rajiv Bhavan, the Assam Congress headquarters in Guwahati, leaving five Congressmen seriously injured. These included the state party spokesperson and a PCC general secretary. The attack took place exactly three weeks before the two-phase Assembly elections begin in the state on April 4.