Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit planting a sapling during her visit to the Haiderpur water treatment plant in the Capital on Tuesday.
Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI: To enhance the Capital’s green cover for the upcoming Commonwealth Games, the Delhi Jal Board will plant 2.5 lakh new saplings, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit announced on Tuesday.
Speaking at a […]

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with FICCI delegation (from left) Amit Mitra, Secretary General, R. S. Poddar, past-President, Harsh Pati Singhania, President, Rajan Bharti Mittal, Senior Vice-President, Y. K. Modi, past-President, and Shivinder Mohan Singh, MD, Fortis Healthcare, in New Delhi on Tuesday. — PHOTO: M. ASOKAN / PHOTO DIVISION
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NEW DELHI: The Federation of […]

Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI: A “student” of Delhi University’s Kirori Mal College was in for a rude shock on Tuesday morning when he realised that his name did not figure in the college rolls despite a “fee receipt” having been issued to him by four persons, including a girl, allegedly for a consideration of Rs. […]

Legal Correspondent
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday attributed the spurt in prices of essential commodities to the monsoon failure in many States, expressed concern over the plight of the common man and directed the Centre and States to take short-term measures to solve water problem on a war- footing.
A Bench of Justices Markandey […]

13 more, including six children, from Delhi report positive 
Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI: The number of swine flu cases in the Capital continues to mount with 13 more persons testing positive on Tuesday.
They include six children and seven adults, all of whom are being treated at various health centres across the city. Forty-two people are […]

Over detention of judges during Emergency rule 
Nirupama Subramanian
ISLAMABAD: A police station in the Pakistani capital has registered a case against the former President, Pervez Musharraf, for illegally detaining judges of the Supreme Court in November 2007.
The case was registered after an additional sessions judge ordered the police to file an FIR against the […]

P. S. Suryanarayana
SINGAPORE: In a courtroom drama in Yangon on Tuesday, Myanmar’s junta commuted a tough sentence within minutes of its being pronounced against celebrated democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, according to her defence lawyers, who spoke to The Hindu over the telephone,
Home Minister Maung Ooo appeared in the […]

Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday asked the Capital’s power companies to come out with the truth about the efforts being made to arrange power, even as she asked the power consumers to “bear with this unprecedented situation”. The city has been reeling under power cuts for the past few days.
“Despite […]

V. Sridhar
BANGALORE: Policy makers the world over are facing “dilemmas” in trying to evolve an “exit” from the policy of monetary expansion, which is in response to the global financial crisis, former Reserve Bank of India Governor Y. V. Reddy said here.
He said: “An exit cannot be done too early, nor can it be […]

Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI: Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday announced that the much-awaited draft of the Direct Taxes Code would be released by the Government on Wednesday. The draft seeks to simplify the taxation structure and put it in the public domain for a wider debate before it is adopted.
“The government is taking […]