Heated exchanges between the Congress and the BJP in the MCD, as they enter the election year, saw a special budget meeting of the MCD House (for the year 2011-12) being adjourned for the first time ever. The Congress mounted a vociferous protest accusing the BJP of making false announcement pertaining to `50 lakhs additional allocation being made to the councillors leading to adjournment of meeting within 50 minutes.

A 42-year-old businessman was found dead under mysterious circumstances in the Nariana area of southwest Delhi on Thursday night.
The police said the deceased, identified as Praveen Kumar, an iron trader, was spotted lying beneath a flyover in the Nariana area of southwest Delhi at around 1.30 am

Having spent most of his working life looking for precious water resources across the higher Himalayas, Indian Guinness record holder Ritesh Arya is preparing to explode what he believes are “unnecessary” myths about global warming. Dr Arya, who was also recently listed amongst the top 10 small-scale renewable energy

For the first time, the probe agencies are believed to have found evidence to directly link sacked chairman of the Organising Committee (OC) Suresh Kalmadi with “deliberate” delays in awarding of contracts related to the Commonwealth Games. The Central probe agencies have held him responsible for deliberate delays in awarding of contracts related to catering worth `66.59 crores to an Australian firm, Delaware North, and installation of the kitchen equipment to PKL London.

Reacting to complaints from relatives of some of the (deceased) passengers who died in the Mangalore air-crash that the compensation amount —decided under the provisions of the Carriage by Air Act, 1972 — was unequal, civil aviation minister Vayalar Ravi on Friday evening held a meeting of top Air India officials at the ministry on

Stealing time from her busy schedule of preparing Railway Budget and attending party programmes, railway minister and Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has written another book of poems. The slim book simply titled Netai contains poems which are inspired by the killings of nine unarmed villagers, including four women

The police and tax authorities conducted raids on Sidhbari’s (near Dharamsala) Gyuto Tantric Temple — the abode of the 17th Karmapa, Ugyen Trinley Dorji, who is among Tibet’s top three spiritual leaders and widely speculated as a successor to the Dalai Lama.

AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi, who is on a three-day visit to the state to boost the party’s membership drive, seems to be alienating the party’s old allies. His comment that the dalits don’t have any youth leaders to look forward to has slighted dalit organisations across the state. He said that those who claim to be dalit leaders are in the leadership position because they inherited the same from their families.

Yashwant Sonawane, the additional district collector who was burnt alive by the oil mafia, was not the first government servant to be “eliminated”. There have been two other instances in the past when government officials have been murdered by the oil mafia.

The Centre is likely to advice the Maharashtra government to book the persons involved in the killing of additional district collector Yashwant Sonawane, under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA). In wake of the incident, the government is also planning a fresh relook at laws to provide more teeth to state departments and give protection to public servants.