Graft to dominate Cong plenary meet
Corruption issue which has damaged the credibility of two national parties and some of their allies, could dominate a three-day AICC plenary session to be held in Delhi the third week of December.
Dy Speaker’s SUV stolen in E. Delhi
Delhi Assembly’s deputy speaker got a taste of the poor law and order situation in the city when thieves made away with his recently-purchased car from outside his son’s residence in east Delhi on Sunday.
Building collapses after fire
Four persons, including three firemen, were injured when a portion of a building which was engulfed by flames on Sunday evening, collapsed near the crowded Chawri Bazar market in Old Delhi.
‘Get convicts treated for drug addiction’
Rohini Court additional sessions judge (ASJ) Dr Kamini Lau has in a recent order directed the Tihar Jail authorities to provide medical help to two robbery convicts, as they were drug addicts and indulged in crime to buy narcotic.
Cops use cell data to crack gangrape case
Investigators are yet to identify the assailants who gangraped a girl from Northeast with the police scanning the call records of hundreds of mobile users who were receiving signal from some mobile towers in Dhaula Kuan area even as no arrests have been made in the case so far.
Drunk driving, speeding claim 3 lives in city
Three persons were killed and nine others injured in road accidents reported from the city.
A 25-year-old man was killed and five others hurt when an Ambassador car rammed into a tree close to Union defence minister A.K. Antony’s residence in the city on Saturday night.
Snag hits Gurgaon Metro line again
The overhead electrification system of Delhi Metro collapsed for the second time in the last 10 days on Sunday evening, causing a major disruption in services as thousands of people were left stranded on different stations between Central Secretariat and Gurgaon.
Gulp down a shot of goodness
The latest fix among fitness freaks is wheatgrass shots. Wheatgrass is known to have positive qualities that help to detox the body in a very natural manner and is also smooth on the digestive system, so this rules out any possibilities of side effects.
Cong not to take Jagan action, yet
Congress rebel and Kadapa MP Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy is under watch but the Congress high command is unlikely to discipline him right now. The party’s strategy appears to be to ignore him so that his following of party legislators from Andhra Pradesh dwindles before taking any action.
Court orders FIR against Geelani, Roy
A Delhi court on Saturday directed the police to register an FIR against Hurriyat Conference faction leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, writer Arundhati Roy and others for allegedly delivering anti-India speeches during a programme in the national capital on October 21. The court, ticking off the police for failing to take action, said that at the stage of registration of an FIR the only thing the police has to see is whether the contents of a complaint disclosed a cognisable offence.