A 42-year-old builder shot himself dead at his Janakpuri residence on Monday evening. The victim, Rajender Singh, was working as a contractor for National Buildings Construction Corporation .

A city court on Monday asked the Delhi police to make clear the specific roles of various suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorists allegedly involved in plotting the September 2008 serial terror blasts in the city. Giving public prosecutor Rajiv Mohan two weeks’ time to specify the role of various accused in hatching the criminal

A wrestler was arrested in Sultanpuri area of outer Delhi for allegedly sodomising a 15-year-old trainee at his akhara over the last one month.
Police officials said the incident came to light on Sunday when the victim’s mother approached them with a complaint stating that his son was being sodomised at the

A three-year-old girl died when a speeding Blueline bus hit a motorcycle in Paschim Vihar on Monday evening.
The deceased, Ritika was going to a wedding reception in Madipur with her uncle, Mukesh, 24, and her mother, Sapna, on a motorcycle when the bus plying on route

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday met President Pratibha Patil amid speculation of a Cabinet reshuffle later this week. The meeting lasted 45 minutes.
Though the government and the Congress continue to maintain silence on the date for this exercise, they are not ruling out a reshuffle. Instead, they said both, a Cabinet reshuffle and AICC reconstitution, would take place this month.

A 17-year-old girl, a student of Class 11, was allegedly dragged into a car and taken to a desolate spot where she was gangraped by three young men on Wednesday last week. The incident was reported from neighbouring Ghaziabad and the three young men, including a classmate of the girl, have been arrested by the Ghaziabad police.

A week after the CAG and Union telecom minister Kapil Sibal took strong stands against each other following the latter’s comment that the CAG findings in the 2G spectrum were “utterly erroneous”, the CAG said that there was no “rift” between the audit body and the minister.

The Delhi high court on Monday ordered the DDA to allow ten devotees to offer namaz for the next two months at the site of a mosque demolished last week.
“DDA will complete the construction of boundary wall (at the site where the illegal mosque was demolished) and leave a gate of 2.5 feet to allow 10 persons of the

Issues related to adverse possessions and the undemarcated boundary with Bangaldesh and the handing over of Ulfa leader Anup Chetia to India, are expected to be high on the agenda during the home secretary-level talks between India and Bangladesh beginning in Dhaka on Wednesday. Home minister P. Chidambaram is also

India will soon have its third permanent station, Bharati, in Antarctica. Expected to be up and running next year, the centre will accommodate 70 scientists.