Delhiites celebrated Christmas with joy and enthusiasm amid elaborate security arrangements. City churches held midnight masses and people thronged to the streets to usher in the Christmas festivities, marking the day when Lord Jesus was born.

In a move to ensure that the city do not get short of onions and its price remains stable over the weekend, Delhi’s largest wholesale market, the Azadpur Mandi will remain open on Sunday.

Delhi BJP on Saturday charged that the city government has failed to check prices of vegetables. Delhi BJP chief Vijendra Gupta has charged that the onion, tomato and other vegetable prices at Mother Dairy outlets are higher than in the retail markets in the city.

Delhi Book Fair opened on Saturday at Pragati Maidan with “Books of Rural India” as the theme. The Book Fair is expecting participation of over 250 publishers from India and abroad. Various seminars, book launches and panel discussions will be held during the fair.

A 26-year-old commodity share broker was allegedly drugged and raped by two youths whom she met through a social networking site after they threatened to release her semi-nude photographs captured through a webcam. The FIR of the incident which took place on the intervening night of December 23, 24 has been lodged at the Safdarjung Enclave police station.

It has been 30 years since he died and the world has moved on. But for Sanjeev Dixit, a school teacher, time always stands still on December 24 which also happens to be the birth anniversary of singer Mohammed Rafi.

While most designers are caught up in innovation and pushing creative boundaries, Chennai-based costume and jewellery designer Prabha Narasimhan has struck a fine balance between wacky and wearable. Starting off from her home, she initially crafted jewellery and designed clothes for her close-knit circle of friends. But today, her brand Abharan’s clients extend across the globe.

The CBI, which carried out searches at the residence of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi on Friday, has reportedly recovered an alleged blackmail letter demanding `4 crore from him in exchange for a “compact disc” carrying some damaging information.

The Pakistani authorities have arrested a key member of an insurgent network in the Afghan-Pakistan region. Nasiruddin Haqqani, son of Afghan insurgent leader Jalaluddin Haqqani, belongs to the notorious group called the Haqqani Network. Nasiruddin Haqqani was detained in recent days while driving from Peshawar with four militants to the tribal region of North Waziristan, sources said. The UN says he is believed to be based out of Miranshah in North Waziristan.

The West Bengal government on Saturday said that it had not yet received Union home minister P. Chidambaram’s letter to chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. A day after Mr Bhattacharjee denied any knowledge of any such letter, state chief secretary Samar Ghosh also gave similar reaction when asked if Mr Chidambaram’s letter