The Union Minister for Culture Ambika Soni, under whose control the Archeological Survey of India falls, was in Japan.
Instead, the government will file a supplementary affidavit on the case on Friday, Law Minister H R Bharadwaj said.
Law and Justice Minister H R Bhardwaj said the government was keen on 'partially providing funding' for elections in kind.\n
Law Minister H R Bharadwaj declared on Wednesday that the Constitution recognised only one judiciary, headed by the Chief Justice of India and noone else.
Anu Peshawaria is in India to lobby for laws and awareness to counter the problem.
The issue came up when leader of the opposition Jaswant Singh took the Kargil defence purchase issue and said it would only be appropriate that the government table the report to facilitate a full-fledged discussion.
The government on Friday assured to expedite the land allocation process for constructing 40 five-star hotels in Delhi to meet the influx of tourists during the 2010 Commonwealth games.
Government decides not to extend the Tehelka commission's term, which ended on Sunday.
Law Minister H R Bharadwaj said the emphasis would be on the prompt and speedy disposal of cases.
'I have nothing to say at this moment as I have not received any communication nor even a telephone call from the government about this,' he said.
Karnataka Governor H R Bhardwaj and Tripura Governor Devanand Konwar will retire on Saturday and governors of Tamil Nadu and Mizoram have been given the additional charge of the two states respectively.
Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh was on Tuesday appointed governor of Rajasthan as the Centre named three more Bharatiya Janata Party leaders for the Raj Bhavans in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Goa.
Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal, who had frosty relations with Narendra Modi when he was chief minister of the state, was tonight sent off to Mizoram in a reshuffle of governors effected by the government.
Since 2004 the Congress has hung onto power in a situation in which it was on track to be out of power. In each case, it effectively gamed the system through Constitutional coups, argues columnist Rajeev Srinivasan.
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