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Mid-day meal served in the 1,800 primary schools of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has once again come under scrutiny. This time the leadership inside the civic agency is at loggerheads over the amount of food supplied by a single NGO.

The Delhi High Court on Thursday said that the order on framing of charges against DDA scam accused including Shamit Mukherjee, a former HC judge, would be delivered by the Additional Sessions Judge, who had earlier heard the arguments in the matter, but was later transferred.

The smooth lanes of Greater Noida Expressway that induces almost all car and motorcycle owners to press hard on the accelerator, is going to host the cycling event during the Commonwealth Games in 2010.

A 24-year-old woman, who worked as a software engineer with a private company, committed suicide by hanging herself in Noida on Wednesday. Reena Singh's father is a senior official in the Commercial Tax Department. She left a suicide note saying that nobody is to be blamed for her death.

A Singapore-bound Jet Airways flight 9W18 was delayed by nearly six hours after it developed a technical snag minutes before take off. 'The snag was detected and some parts were replaced. The aircraft was allowed to take off only after a thorough check up was conducted. All passengers were transferred to the terminal and made comfortable.

Gurgaon District Magistrate Rakesh Gupta on Thursday cancelled the arms licence issued to Bollywood actress Soha Ali Khan in November 1996 at a time when she was underage and ineligible to own a firearm.

Hoping that the order will 'broaden the thinking of Indian society', the Delhi High Court on Thursday quashed three of the six cases pending against 90-year-old painter Maqbool Fida Husain, for allegedly hurting public sentiments through his paintings of Hindu Goddesses, which were termed obscene.

DELHI MAYOR Arti Mehra has demanded amendments in the Master Plan for Delhi-2021 from Union Urban Development Minister Jaipal Reddy. She has asked for these amendments on the basis of 'feedback' from various MCD zones.

THE NIGHTMARISH experience that commuting on the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor had become for city residents could have been avoided had the Delhi government heeded to the recommendations of the Delhi Development Authority's (DDA) technical committee made in 2005.

THE VERY premise on which the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor was constructed - that the number of commuters who use public transport is much more than those using private vehicles - has fallen flat.

The Supreme Court on Thursday ended a two-year-long legal battle between Dr P. Venugopal and Union Health Minister A. Ramadoss that had paralysed the working of the premier institute on several occasions.

ON THE eve of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Bhutan, the Union Cabinet on Friday is set to approve a sum of Rs 4,587 crores as assistance for Bhutan's Tenth Five Year Plan.

A MANEATER leopard, which killed five people since December and injured several others, was killed by a mob in Bilahar village under North Khiri forest division on Thursday.

Two years after his death, Puja's husband was born again – as their son. That's how 32-year-old Puja, a nurse in a Kolkata hospital, describes the successful posthumous artificial insemination with husband's sperm (technically called AIH), the first such procedure in India.

IN A setback to the UPA government's ambitious Setusamudram Shipping Canal Project, the Supreme Court on Thursday asked it to conduct an archaeological investigation to find out if 'Ram Setu' could be declared an 'ancient monument'.

Corruption-ridden All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has made a seeming attempt at cleaning up its act, shifting out heads of all its regional offices except Bhopal, and announcing it would get rid of all tainted officials in the next two months.

The nagging, low-power blasts in south Delhi could be the handiwork of a local criminal, a miscreant or even a mad man, but police have decisively ruled out any terrorist hand in the series of explosions. 'Terrorists would surely not risk trying out the impact of indigenously made, crude explosives in the national capital,' said a police officer on condition of anonymity.

A MYSTERIOUS explosive blew up in south Delhi late Wednesday, injuring a man and damaging cars, police said. The low-intensity blast follows a string of similar explosions in the area that continue to baffle the cops.

IF DELHI residents were forced to reel under 5-6 hour long outages in the last fortnight it was not only on account of power shortage. A large part of the problem could be blamed on 'mismanagement of power' by the government as well as the private distribution companies (distcoms).