Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan has said coalition politics was sometimes a hurdle in decision making. He is perhaps the first party chief minister to complain about coalition politics at a time when the Congress has been running a coalition government in the state for more than ten years.

The eighth edition of “We Care Film Fest” — an annual international festival of documentary films on disability issues was launched on Thursday at the United Nations Information Centre here.

Taking a strong exception to the non-dismissal of former ACP S.S. Rathi, convicted for killing two innocent persons in an encounter due to mistaken identity in 1997, Justice S.

The post-mortem of the restaurant manager who was killed near Khan Market on Tuesday afternoon was conducted by a panel of doctors at the Maulana Azad Medical College on Thursday.

A 22-year-old woman, who had recently married a 24-year-old youth against the wishes of his family, was found dead under mysterious circumstances at her in-law’s house on Tuesday.

Nafed on Thursday began selling onions through mobile vans in the city. The traders in Azadpur Mandi, meanwhile, claimed that the price of onions would come down considerably with the fresh lot expected by next week.

The Sarita Vihar-Badarpur section of Delhi Metro will open at 8 am on Friday. The Commissioner for Metro Rail Safety R.K. Kardam had given the statutory safety clearance on Thursday, a Delhi Metro official said.

Purshottam Naresh Dwiwedi, the BSP MLA from Banda accused of raping a minor girl and then implicating her in a false theft case when she threatened to go to the police, was arrested Thursday from Lucknow and taken to Banda. Two of his aides, also co-accused, were arrested in Banda Wednesday night. The girl is still languishing in jail on theft charges.

An uneasy calm prevailed at Jangpura in Nizamuddin on Thursday where the razing down of a mosque that had come up illegally on DDA land on Wednesday led to a pitched battle between the local residents and the police. The protesters, meanwhile, continued to demand re-construction of the mosque. A few of them damaged a DTC bus while blocking the traffic on Mathura Road for some time, forcing the police to close the road from Neela Gumbad towards Oberoi Hotel.

Battling increasing criticism from the aam aadmi and the Opposition for its failure to check rising prices, the government on Thursday sought to reassure the common man by spelling out once again the steps it is taking to check the upward spiral. It said it will be undertaking a periodic review of the import and export of all essential commodities and warned of a crackdown against hoarders and black-marketeers who manipulate prices.