New Delhi, March 21: Facing criticism over incomplete Commonwealth Games venues, the government has decided to crack the whip on officials involved with projects, making them “directly responsible” for any further delay.
“Henceforth, the chief engineer of the project would be directly held responsible for failing to meet the deadline in completing the work,” Union urban development secretary M. Ramachandran said.

New Delhi, March 21: Facing criticism over incomplete Commonwealth Games venues, the government has decided to crack the whip on officials involved with projects, making them “directly responsible” for any further delay.
“Henceforth, the chief engineer of the project would be directly held responsible for failing to meet the deadline in completing the work,” Union urban development secretary M. Ramachandran said.

Army cadets march during their passing-out parade at the Officers’ Training Academy in Chennai on Saturday. The parade saw 118 Indian cadets and nine foreign cadets commissioned into the Indian Army and Afghanistan Army respectively. A total of 92 gentleman cadets and 26 lady cadets will be joining different regiments of the Indian Army as officers.    PHOTO: PTI

New Delhi, March 20: India is preparing to send a team of Indian officials to the US to interrogate Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Tayyaba operative David Headley following assurances from the US government that Indian sleuths can question him on American soil.

New Delhi, March 20: A worried BJP chief, Mr Nitin Gadkari, rushed to New Delhi on Friday night following reports of the revolt brewing in his party. Mr Gadkari held parleys with the RSS bosses and senior leader L.K. Advani to tackle the situation. The BJP’s Bihar brigade, comprising Mr

Gandhinagar, March 20: Gujarat CM Narendra Modi is likely to skip his Sunday date with the Special Investigation team (SIT). He had not responded to the SIT summons till 9 pm Saturday and sources close to him claimed he would not appear before the riot probe panel on Sunday. Mr Modi was supposed to appear before the Supreme Court-appointed special panel on Sunday following a summons issued by the SIT.

Mumbai, March 20: The pact on India’s right to reprocess spent nuclear fuel of US origin is likely to be announced by the two countries on March 22.
This is one of the few important steps left towards implementation of the historic Indo-US civil nuclear deal which envisages a clearly defined accounting of reprocessing of nuclear material under international safeguards.

New Delhi, March 20: The failure of accelerating the relocation of 80,000 families currently living in tiger reserves has been a source of consternation for Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, especially since 11 tigers were killed in the first two months of 2010 while 66 tigers were killed in 2009.

Chandigarh, March 20: Bollywood’s new inspirational film on Milkha Singh promises to be an end-to-end sober affair comprising a dramatic documentation of the athletics legend’s relentless struggle and eventual glory-winning gold in the 1958 Commonwealth Games at Cardiff, Wales.

Deccan Chargers captain Adam Gilchrist greets bowler Andrew Symonds after picking up the wicket of Kings XI Punjab batsman Mahela Jayawardene (right) during their IPL-3 match in Cuttack on Friday. A blistering 33 off 12 balls by Gilchrist and 53 off 38 balls by Symonds took the Chargers to 170 for seven.
A superbly aggressive 60 off 29 balls by Irfan Pathan was not enough and the Chargers won by six runs to break their IPL jinx against Kings XI Punjab. PHOTO: PTI