Though describing India’s track record on releasing of Pakistani prisoners better than the neighbouring country, the Supreme Court on Wednesday felt that there was still the need for further improvement while directing the government to release forthwith 61 Pakistan nationals whose identity had been fully established.

Moved by the incident of a woman delivering baby on a pavement last year, a division bench comprising Delhi high court Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjeev Khanna on Wednesday directed the city government to provide two exclusive shelters for destitute, pregnant and lactating women within a week.

One of the three members of the team of interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir, appointed by the government, has said that there is a “positive change” in the atmosphere in the state. The member, Mr M.M. Ansari, has further said that “many encouraging things are happening, lot of changes have taken place and lots of good things have taken place”. He said this shortly after the interlocutors met Union home minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday.

A team of forensic experts on Wednesday visited the site of accident in Khan Market which resulted in the death of Rajeev Jolly Wilson, a restaurant manager, with the Delhi police awaiting results of a fresh autopsy to be conducted on Thursday by a panel of doctors to ascertain the nature of injuries of the deceased.

A 25-year-old youth was found hanging in a park in east Delhi’s Mayur Vihar on Tuesday morning with the police suspecting it to be a case of suicide.
The police said the deceased, identified as Varun Mishra, who worked with a multinational company as an executive, was found hanging from a tree in Supreme park in

A fire broke out in the central dome of the Ambedkar Park in Noida, an ambitious project for Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati, on Tuesday afternoon. Nobody was injured in the incident and the blaze was doused in about two hours.

The Delhi high court on Tuesday dismissed the contempt plea filed by an NGO against the Delhi government for taking no action against some private schools for their alleged failure to comply with its earlier order fixing 4 years as the entry age of a child for admission in pre-primary class.

The MCD on Tuesday favoured construction of the Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) corridors saying it would help in streamlining public transport in the capital. The municipal commissioner’s budget proposal for the financial year 2011-12 had mentioned detailed technical feasibility tests for at least 17 corridors. The MCD also proposes to

Onion prices, already ruling high, is now poised for a further hike after the Azadpur Mandi traders gave an indefinite strike call from Wednesday even though the Delhi government rushed in with the threat to impose Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) against agitating traders. The Mother Dairy outlets on Tuesday failed to sell onions at Rs 35 a kg, with Nafed accusing it of not lifting the onions from the Azadpur Mandi.

Pressing on with his new broadside against the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP Coalition, former chief minister and Punjab Congress chief Capt. Amarinder Singh on Tuesday charged the government of trying to take credit for infrastructure projects planned and initiated under Congress rule.