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

Investigations into the health and medicine purchase scam that had surfaced in Madhya Pradesh over three years ago leading to the resignation of the then health minister and suspension of few senior officers are moving at a tardy pace and those accused of irregularities and facing the charge of amassing wealth disproportionate to their known sources of income are yet to be prosecuted.

The capital woke up to the coldest season of the day 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.

Union home minister P. Chidambaram on Tuesday said the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has made certain breakthrough in the Samjhauta Express blast case of 2007 in which 68 people lost their lives.

Five of a family died due to asphyxiation when a fire broke out in a house in Ghaziabad early Tuesday morning.
The family of a fruit seller, including his wife and three children were sleeping, when the fire broke out apparently due to short circuit.