The son of the late Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, former Congress MP Jagan Mohan Reddy, through his close relative Y.V. Subba Reddy, filed an application on Wednesday with the Election Commission for his soon-to-be launched political party.

The government has made it clear that it may take up to six weeks for it to take a final call on the issue of a separate Telangana state. It is most likely that a final decision on Telangana would be taken before the Budget Session of Parliament.

Despite a committee of doctors recommending that the infant abandoned by parents at St. Stephen’s Hospital can be taken back home and looked after, they refuse to take back the child. The parents apparently want that the health problems of the child are treated before they take him back. The Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) is now of the view that criminal action should be initiated against the parents for abandoning the child.

Delhiites can now lodge complaints of uncleanliness and poor sanitation in their areas on the Facebook page of MCD which promises to take prompt action on the same. The MCD on Wednesday launched its page on the popular networking website Facebook (FB) and the page was “liked” by many citizens who see in it a ray of

The national capital woke up to the coldest day of the season so far on Tuesday with the minimum plummeting by nearly five degrees since Monday to 3.7ºCelsius and the maximum temperature not going beyond 12.7ºCelsius, a drop of 2ºCelsius since Monday.

The Delhi police has arrested a youth along with his four friends for the murder of a territorial manager of a private telecom company, whose charred body and motorcycle was found in a south Delhi market on Saturday morning.

Armed with the call details of his telephone conversation with slain Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad chief Hemant Karkare on the day the police officer was killed, AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh on Tuesday demanded apologies from Maharashtra home minister R.R. Patil and all others who tried to brand him a “liar”.

Union home minister P. Chidambaram on Tuesday said that I would request the people of Delhi to support their police force. The policing in Delhi has improved tremendously over the years and one should not go by specific cases and impressions and rather see things in totality, he added.

Expressing concern over recent statement given by jailed human rights activist Binayak Sen’s wife that she feels unsafe in the country, Union home minister P. Chidambaram on Tuesday said there was no reason why Ms Sen or any other member of her family should feel apprehensive in India.

A 40-year-old MCD employee succumbed to her injuries after being hit by a train on Shahdara railway station on Tuesday evening.
The police said the incident took place when the deceased was trying to board a train. A GRP official said that the deceased has been identified as Premwati, a gardener