The Bharatiya Janata Party omitted several prominent councillors in the list of 272 candidates for the civic polls.
Several party workers from the BJP and Congress have filed their nominations independently after they were denied party tickets.

The BJP omitted several prominent councillors in the list of 272 candidates for the civic polls.

Senior leaders of both the Delhi Congress and BJP are facing the anger of their party workers over ticket allotment.

As the civic polls dates are coming closer, business of khadi clothes is booming. Khadi jackets and kurtas are easily available at temporary stalls near the party offices.

Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit came under heavy fire from the Opposition on Tuesday for the abuse of power by her party’s MLA to get his daughter admitted to a Delhi University college.

A dispute among the kidnappers resulted in a safe escape for RTI activist Shiv Kumar Tiwari , 38, who helped expose the MCD ghost employee’s scam, after being kidnapped on Thursday. He was found drugged and dumped in the jungle near Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, on Saturday.

The manufacturing unit at Tihar jail, which is the biggest jail in Asia, has become a profit-making one in last three years. The jail authorities had set up a manufacturing unit and the hard work of the inmates resulted in a 300 per cent hike in its annual turnover.

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit has become a star campaigner for the Congress party in UP. The CM is supposed to start her two-day campaign in UP again from Saturday. Since the bypoll in Hisar, the CM has been projected an icon of development by her party.

With an eye on the upcoming civic polls in the city, the city government has once again played the low-cost housing flats plan card to woo economically weaker section.

Bike-borne snatchers once again struck in high-security area of the capital in broad daylight and this time they targeted two foreigners in two consecutive days.