The Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit while speaking at a seminar organised by the Ficci organisation on Tuesday stated that: “Long traffic snarls at busy intersections in the city may be a nightmare for motorists but the choked roads, in a way, reflect growing prosperity of citizens in Delhi.”

The Lok Sabha witnessed unruly scenes and had to be adjourned after the Yadav troika, including SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, expressed concern over the caste census to be conducted in 2011.

Former US ambassador to India Robert Blackwill’s Plan B — de facto partition of Afghanistan — does not appear to have many takers in India as there are reservations about whether redrawing borders in Afghanistan will be consistent with Indian interests. If the mood on Raisina Hill is any indicator, partition is not a desirable end state

Refusing to give a time frame to resolve the Telangana issue, home minister P. Chidambaram on Tuesday made it clear that he would convene a meeting of parties from Andhra Pradesh on the Telangana issue only when all of them are “ready” to give their views.

India has agreed “in principle” to allow a commission from Pakistan to question Mumbai witnesses of the 2008 terror attack, but a final view on their visit will be taken after Islamabad responds to a similar request put forth by New Delhi. Home minister P. Chidambaram on Tuesday said that India has asked Pakistan to allow a team to question some people in that country suspected to be involved in the 26/11 Mumbai carnage.

Thanks to the “rail roko” on Tuesday, the Secunderabad station was full of commuters in the morning, waiting for news about their trains. The passengers arrived at Secunderabad from other places and there were also many waiting for their trains since Monday night. Though the South Central Railway had appointed a help-desk for the passengers, it could not provide much help to the long-distance passengers.

Telangana activists on Tuesday brought train services in Telangana to a halt as they blocked rail tracks all over the region. As a result, five long-distance trains were stopped at various stations for 12 hours by the authorities and six express trains were detained by agitators.

The Budget session of Parliament could be concluded any time in the first week of April. This was indicated by the official sources after the announcement of the poll schedule for five state assemblies on Tuesday evening.

A day after a violent protest by local farmers, the MoEF on Tuesday ordered suspension of construction work of a power plant in Andhra Pradesh’s Srikakulam district. The order comes a day after two people were killed in the police firing on the farmers protesting against the project in Srikakulam.

Union information and broadcasting ministry has given its go-ahead to the CBI to initiate a detailed criminal investigation against suspended Pra-sar Bharati CEO B.S. Lalli.