A day after the city private schools threatened not to admit students of the economically weaker section (EWS) category in the nursery classes citing financial burden, the Delhi government on Thursday said that the schools violating the norms under the RTE Act implementation would be de recognised.

The Delhi police has transferred the case of a suspected Maoist arms supplier, who was held in Karol Bagh with a huge cache of detonators, to its elite anti-terror cell after it transpired that the detonating devices were manufactured by a company whose explosive-laden trucks went missing last year.

Chandigarh-based hydro-geologist Ritesh Arya, who holds the Guinness record for drilling the world’s highest tubewell at Siachen, has now found place among the “world’s top 10 small-scale renewable energy innovators” currently showcased at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi.

The Kerala high court on Thursday asked the Travancore Devaswom Board to explain if the “Makaravilakku” light at Sabarimala was a “man-made” phenomenon or not.
A high court bench comprising Justices Thottathil Radhakrishnan and C.V. Gopinath, taking up reports by the board, the police and the forest department on the

The Pakistan Bar has come under sever criticism by a body of international jurists, especially those form the third world countries for failing to rein in the lawyers from openly praising the assassin of Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer while he was being produced in the court in Islamabad and showering rose petals on him.

Perhaps fearing a repeat of last year’s caste violence that left a 70-year-old and his disabled daughter dead, besides 18 of their homes reduced to ashes, many dalit families have left Hisar’s Mirchpur village in the face of the agitation by upper caste jat khaps or caste councils.

A woman lawyer came to the rescue of former RAW official Nisha Priya Bhatia after the ex-official, frustrated at adjournments in various courts, tried to disrobe in the Delhi high court, and pleaded for her release on the ground that she had school-going children. The court then decided to hear the matter in-camera.

In a move that was long overdue, Maharashtra governor K. Sankaranarayanan on Thursday suspended state information commissioner Ramanand Tiwari for his alleged involvement in the Adarsh Society scam.

The Uttar Pradesh CB-CID, on Thursday, filed a chargesheet against BSP MLA Purshottam Naresh Dwiwedi and four others in a Banda court for allegedly raping a dalit girl.
Meanwhile, the MLA’s wife, Asha Dwiwedi announced on Thursday that she and her family will commit suicide if the “conspiracy” against her husband was not exposed.

The government’s efforts to develop a national vocational education curriculum framework for students received a boost on Thursday after the proposal was unanimously endorsed by the state governments.