Sonia Gandhi the president of Congress has launched the satellite TV channel named as “Vasanth” from the party headquarters at 24, Akbar Road in New Delhi.
The launching was done in the presence of H. Vasanthkumar, chairman & managing director of the channel & Congress MLA in Tamil Nadu.
Apart from news & current affairs, the channel will also provide entertainment via tele-serials, feature films & documentaries. It will also focus on the Congress party & its achievements. It is to begin ….

Marathi newsreader Data Kulkarni has passed away on Sunday. Datta Kulkarni, whose voice was familiar all over Masharashtra in yesteryears as reader of Marathi news was passed away in new Delhi.
He was 82 years old. Dattatreya Ramchandra Kulkarni was the head of Marathi news unit at All India Radio, Delhi for 30 long years. He retired from service 23 years ago.
Kulkarni, who was not keeping well from the past few months, breathed his last at his residence in east Delhi. ….

At least 142 prisoners are still detained under TADA Act across India with Maharashtra topping the list with 50 such detentions.
These persons are in judicial custody as per orders of the designated TADA Courts. Maharashtra tops the list of TADA detainees with 50 prisoners while Assam came second with 28 such detentions followed by Gujarat with 18.
Seventeen people were still detained in Tamil Nadu under the scrapped anti-terror legislation. In Jammu &Kashmir, eight people are still in prisons under the ….

A Delhi court awarded life term to ex-army officer SJ Choudhary for killing businessman Krishan Sikand in a parcel bomb explosion 26 years ago.
District Judge Mamta Sehgal said, pronouncing the sentence in a jam-packed courtroom, “I sentence you to life term”. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on Choudhary.
Choudhary, 70 years old was on April 28 found guilty by the court for the murder of Krishan Sikand 40 years old, who had died in an explosion caused ….

The hearing of the Sethusamudram project has been adjourned in the Supreme Court for Thursday. A Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan agreed to hear the matter on Thursday after Janata Party President Subramanium Swamy & lawyers for other petitioners brought to its notice that there was some confusion as the order mistakenly showed that the matter will be heard on May one.
The apex court had earlier stayed the project, which involves dredging a shipping channel between India ….

The Supreme Court will hear the Sethusamudram case today. The apex court had earlier stayed the project, which involves dredging a shipping channel between India & Sri Lanka over objections that it would affect the Ram Sethu.
Meanwhile, Janata Party president Subramaniam Swamy has filed a petition alleging that Shipping Minister TR Baalu has vested interest in the project as his family companies are involved in the project.

Delhi High Court has granted bail to arms dealer Suresh Nanda, his son Sanjeev & two others on Tuesday who allegedly manipulated evidence in a case of alleged kickbacks in the Barak missile deal.
The Nandas, their chartered accountant Bipin Shah & IRS officer Ashutosh Verma had been in custody for the last 53 days. Justice S N Muralidhar said, ”Each of the petitioners shall be released forthwith”.
The court directed them not to leave the country without the court’s permission. Suresh ….

Delhi Mayor Aarti Mehra has announced on Tuesday that there will be no sealing in the rural areas of the city. The Delhi Mayor has ordered the MCD Commissioner not to conduct ongoing sealing & demolition drive in the rural areas adjoining the National Capital Region.
The move is likely to bring respite for traders & business, as the ongoing sealing & demolition drive is having a negative impact on the society & its economic growth. Mehra had recently written a ….

Delhi’s Municipal Corporation will start the sealing drive on non-notified roads from today. The civic body has completed all preparations to begin the drive as the deadline for traders operating on such stretches to shut their shops ended on Sunday.
K. S. Mehra, MCD Commissioner said, ”We will start the court-ordered drive from Monday. We had already issued a notice in the regard earlier”.
The Supreme Court had, on March 10, asked the civic body to seal within three months all ….

IOA on Wednesday has said that at least 70 people, including 47 sportspersons, will take part in the Olympic torch relay in Delhi on April 17. Actors Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan & Sagarika Ghatge are scheduled to take part in torch relay, said IOA. Some of the sportspersons participating in the run took the occasion as an opportunity to share their feeling about the run.
Two-time hockey gold medallist G Nandy Singh too was elated to be part of the ….

At least 60 Tibetans on Wednesday attempted to storm the Chinese embassy in New Delhi & clashed with security personnel. Waving Tibetan flags and wearing “Free Tibet” headbands, about 60 protestors, including women, emerged near the embassy located in high security Chanakyapuri area at around 10:30 am & tried to break the security cordon.
The protestors then entered into a clash with police & paramilitary personnel, who were deployed in large numbers near the embassy building. The Tibetans shouted slogans against ….

Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari has announced on Tuesday that the Jai Narain Prasad Nishad has been disqualified as a BJP Rajya Sabha member under the anti-defection law. Ansari further said that the Nishad’s disqualification was followed a petition by senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj on charges that he had campaigned against the party.
The issue was referred to the Privileges Committee which submitted its report in November last year. Subsequently, Nishad was given an opportunity to appear before the Chairman ….

The Supreme Court will hear the petition against the Sethusamudram project today.
Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan said that on April 15 it will further decide the date for further hearing on the matter.
On February 29, the Centre had filed a fresh affidavit in the apex court on the project seeking vacation of its interim orders putting on hold any damage to “Ram Setu”.

A team of Chinese security officials is expected in Delhi on Monday to inspect the route for the Olympic torch run on April 17. Indian officials are expected to take them for a survey of the route. The torch will arrive in Delhi on Thursday afternoon.
The run has been shortened to just 2.3 km, down Rajpath, a high security zone of Delhi. India is home to lakhs of Tibetan refugees, hundreds of whom have begun arriving in Delhi for protests. ….

Education in private schools in New Delhi the national capital is set to get costlier, with their federation deciding to effect a 30 per cent fee hike.
The chairman of Federation of Schools, R P Mallick said, “There will be 20 to 30 per cent increase in fees”. He expressed hope that the decision will help its 300 member institutions to raise the salary of teachers by about 40 per cent. However, he said, the new fee structure will come into ….

A Reliance outlet has caught fire on Monday. The minor fire broke out at a retail outlet in north east Delhi.
The fire was reported at the Reliance outlet in Shahdara area this morning. At least four fire tenders were rushed to the spot.
The blaze was brought under control within 20 minutes.
There was no causality in the incident and the cause of the fire was not immediately known.

Sonia Gandhi the chairperson of UPA on Sunday said that she & the party wanted her son Rahul Gandhi to join the council of ministers, but he wanted to continue with his responsibilities in the organisation.
Sonia Gandhi said, “The party wanted Rahul to join the government, but he has expressed his desire to focus on the responsibility the party has given him”.
Sonia Gandhi said the government needed some young faces. “Which is why some young faces have been inducted ….

Seven new ministers had joined the Union Council of Ministers. While six were inducted as Ministers of State, former Chief of the Election Commission, M S Gill was sworn in as Minister of State, Independent charge. New Union Cabinet Ministers has took oath on Sunday at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Jitin Prasada took oath as Minister of Coal. Santosh Bagrodia sworn in as Union minister. Raghunath Jha of RJD inducted into Cabinet. Jyotiraditya Scindia also sworn in as Union minister.
Jairam Ramesh has ….

At least 3 lakh students will appear in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) on April 13 for admission into IITs across the country. A senior official of IIT Delhi said that there will be no change in the question pattern this time.
The official said,”The format of the examination remains the same as before. It will comprise two papers of 200 marks each”.
Seven zones will conduct the test. Students qualifying for the entrance will be eligible to take admission to the ….

Delhi Police has suspended 98 traffic policemen on Saturday after a vigilance inquiry identified them in a tape in which they were allegedly seen accepting bribes. The tape was part of a sting operation conducted with the help of some Blueline operators. It had been submitted to Delhi High Court in a PIL by petitioner Chetan Sharma.
That the brazen manner in which Bluelines flout traffic rules in the city and keep spilling the blood of innocents is possible only because ….