Even as the city government initiated sale of onions through 400 outlets at the rate of `40 per kg, the retail prices remained at `60 per kg and above in city markets. Tomatoes were sold in retail around `35 per kg and above in markets. Items like garlic and green chilly were perched at well over `100 a kg.

A 23-year-old call centre executive jumped to death from a flyover on Thursday morning, hours after she had returned from her Noida office.
The victim, identified as Deepti, a resident of Paschim Vihar, sent her brother a text message saying “sorry” for taking the extreme step. She parked her car on the Moti Nagar flyover before jumping at around 7.15 am.

In a bid to stop the screening of the movie 2G Radia-Tion, on the 2G telecom scam and alleged involvement of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia, her PR firm, Vaishnavi Corporate Communic-ations, has decided to send a legal notice to the filmmakers.

The Delhi high court on Thursday ordered veteran Congress leader Narayan Dutt Tiwari, 85, to undergo a DNA test to ascertain the claim by a Delhi-based lawyer, Mr Rohit Shekhar, that he is his biological son.

Veteran Congress leader and former chief minister K. Karunakaran died on Thursday evening at a private hospital here. He was 92. Mr Karunakaran had been admitted to Ananthapuri Hospital on December 10 with fever and breathing difficulties. His condition worsened initially but improved dramatically after a few days. On Wednesday,

Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday attacked the Opposition for causing a deadlock during the recently concluded Winter Session of Parliament. Mr Mukherjee sought an apology from the Opposition for “destroying” Parliament by not letting it function. The Winter Session barely functioned due to the Opposition’s demands for a JPC probe into scams, including that involving 2G spectrum allocation.

The CBI is set to question former telecom minister A. Raja on Friday in connection with its probe into the 2G Spectrum scam. He is likely to be questioned at agency’s headquarters in Delhi.

The state government is contemplating forcibly ending Telugu Desam president N. Chandrababu Naidu’s fast which entered the sixth day on Wednesday as his health deteriorated further after he refused to be administered intravenous (IV) fluids.

Kicking off to an early start to his party’s campaign ahead of the state Assembly polls a year from now, Punjab Congress Committee (PCC) chief Amarinder Singh described the Akali-BJP coalition as a “sham government” wherein both the chief minister and the deputy chief minister were holidaying abroad and most ministers were absent.

A delegation of leaders from non-Congress, non-BJP parties met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday drawing his attention to the plight of farmers in Andhra Pradesh.