Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit’s move to constitute a political committee on restructuring of the MCD appears to have split the state unit of the BJP in two camps, with the party leadership making efforts to save face after hurriedly announcing Opposition to the formation of the committee.

The vice-chancellor of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Prof. S.K. Sopory, has said that the university will approach the police after the internal enquiry is over. He also met Union human resources minister Kapil Sibal over the matter.

The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) has decided to inquire into the allegations that two of the top consultants of Safdarjung Hospital had used false SC certificates for furtherance of their careers. In a notice issued to the medical superintendent of Safdarjung Hospital, a copy of which is in the possession of this

Following court orders, the Delhi police has charged a CRPF constable and his accomplice with allegedly abducting and raping a Class 11 student in Khajuri Khas area of northeast Delhi. The police had earlier allegedly refused to charge the accused, identified as Amit Sharma, 26, a factory worker, and Jaikishen, 36, who is posted with

Success stories can be scripted even in the worst Maoist-hit region. Tribals, who are often lured away by different interest groups or worked as migrant labourers in distant lands under hazardous conditions, can also be successfully brought back to mainstream life. This is what Sahid Laxman Naik Development Society (SLNDS) of Malkangiri, and the National Bank of Rural Development (Nabard) have proved.

The CBI, probing the 2G spectrum scam, on Wednesday confronted Shahid Usman Balwa, the managing director of DB Realty and a promoter of Swan Telecom, with former telecom minister A. Raja and put direct questions to the duo related to the alleged favour given to certain private telecom companies while allotting 2G licences.

Egyptians counted the economic cost of more than two weeks of turmoil on Wednesday as protesters on Cairo’s Tahrir Square looked ahead to their next big push to oust President Hosni Mubarak later in the week.

It’s time to pay up for old telecom operators like BSNL, Airtel, Vodafone and Idea, which got spectrum free above their contractual limit of 6.2 Mhz. On Wednesday, Trai recommended that these companies be made to pay `4,571 crores for every MHz of spectrum they hold on a pan-India basis over the contractual limit of 6.2 Mhz.

Dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar were on Wednesday charged by a CBI special court in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, with murder and destruction of evidence in the killing of their teenaged daughter Aarushi and servant Hemraj nearly three years ago. Both have been charged under Sections 302 (murder), 201 (destruction of

Although the Centre has turned down the request for deployment of Army in Darjeeling, the state government still feels the current situation there demanded Army deployment to restore confidence among the local people. The state government has also sought eight companies of the Central paramilitary forces exclusively for the Hills and its adjoining areas to maintain law and order.