Delhi will have a 4-layer security cordon for the Commonwealth Games to be held on October 3-14, 2010, covering all the venues, including the various sporting facilities and the Games Village.

India has successfully tested 2 advanced versions of Prithvi-II, the nuclear-capable ballistic missile, in quick succession, by destroying the targets accurately.

Commonwealth Games Federation team happy with Delhi Games Village, not so happy with sporting facilities.

India drops plan for country-wide inter-linking of rivers fearing ecology damage.

The Government of India has renamed the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.

This is going from bad to worse. The Shashi Tharoor Twittergate saga is not dying down at all. The main at the center of it all is currently in Africa - I don't think it will end nicely when he is back.

The Organising Committee of the Commonwealth Games (OCCG) has announced that the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi will be held “as scheduled” amidst doubts being raised by the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF).

After being expelled from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for his controversial book, former Union Minister Jaswant Singh seems to be finding himself in the midst of another controversy.

After a week of riots, curfew was relaxed in the towns of  Miraj, Sangli and Ichalkaranji, for four hours, on September 9, 2009.

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has made examinations for Class 10 optional from 2011.