The cleansing drive of the Congress has checked the bargaining power of its allies in the ruling United Progressive Alliance at the Centre and the supporting parties as well.

Taking credit for Union communication minister A. Raja’s resignation over the 2G spectrum scam, AIADMK general secretary J. Jayalalithaa demanded his arrest under the Prevention of Corruption Act and trial “for perpetrating the biggest scam in the history of mankind”.

At least 31 people were killed and 60 others were injured, 30 of them critically, when a five-storey building collapsed in the Lalita Park area of Lakshmi Nagar in east Delhi on Monday evening. More than 100 people were living in the building and while nearly 50 had been rescued, at least 40 others were feared trapped when reports

At least 70 teams of doctors and health professional on Sunday began checking the residents of slum clusters for blood pressure and diabetes on the occasion of the World Diabetes Day. The teams will go to 1,180 slums and the entire process will take around three to four months.

The Delhi Cabinet may yet again take up the issue of circle rates in the city, which has become a bone of contention between Delhi lieutenant-governor Tejendra Khanna and chief minister Sheila Dikshit.

The international forum of partners of Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) ended here on Sunday with an 11-point declaration seeking to take forward the concepts that have been developed in the five years of its existence dealing with integration of maternal, newborn and child health.

The badly decomposed body of a 30-year-old businessman, who had gone missing since November 11, was found in his Honda City car in a posh locality of Gurgaon on Sunday morning. The police suspects business rivalry to be the reason behind the kidnapping-cum-murder incident.

The 30th edition of the 14-day business and cultural extravaganza, the India International Trade Fair, got underway at Pragati Maidan here on Sunday promising a kaleidoscope of India’s diversity, coupled with a focus on business with the domestic and international stakeholders. The Union commerce minister Anand Sharma, who inaugurated the fair, also promised a world-class exhibition and convention centre. This time, 23 countries are participating as compared to 28 in 2009.

Even as the transport department of the Delhi government has announced that it will cancel the permits of 10,491 autorickshaws as they have failed to get the smart card-based permit issued despite repeated reminders and extension of deadlines, the autorickshaw unions maintained on Sunday that they were unaware of any such order. They further alleged that the autorickshaw drivers, whose vehicles were not registered in their names, were not being issued the smart card-based permits.

A domestic help working with a family at Greater Kailash in southeast Delhi for the last five years allegedly escaped from their residence along with `1 crore cash on Saturday evening.