A 19-year-old student of Delhi University was allegedly abducted while she was waiting for a cab and later raped by four men in an autorickshaw in Mandawali area of east Delhi, the police said.

The thirtieth annual India International Trade Fair is set to start from November 14 in the city. The fair, the biggest in Asia, will be inaugurated by Union commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma.

A group of armed robbers barged into the residence of a businessman in south Delhi’s Vasant Vihar area on Wednesday afternoon, took his wife, elderly mother and two domestic helps hostage and decamped with cash and jewellery worth lakhs of rupees.

CPI(M) Rajya Sabha MP Sitaram Yechury on Wednesday said that the impeachment proceedings against Calcutta high court judge Soumitra Sen should be undertaken during the current session which ends on December 13.

Defence minister A.K. Antony on Wednesday said defence public sector undertakings (PSUs) would not automatically be nominated for naval contracts for shipbuilding and that they would have to compete with private Indian defence companies from January, 2011, as per a defence production policy being prepared by the ministry of

While the Opposition cries itself hoarse seeking a probe by a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) into the Adarsh housing society scam, the government on Wednesday rejected this demand saying that there are a large number of similar housing estates in different parts of the country.

The issue of corruption, including that of 2-G scam, Adarsh Society controversy and Commonwealth Games (CWG) on Wednesday rocked both the Houses of Parliament.
As soon as the two Houses met for the day, Opposition members led by the BJP did not allow the Question Hour by trooping into the well raising slogans, leading to adjournment till noon.

The stage has been cleared for the impeachment proceedings against Calcutta high court Justice Soumitra Sen in Parliament.
The first-ever impeachment initiated against a judge — V Ramaswami, who retired as an SC judge in 1994 — failed after the motion collapsed on the floor of the Lok Sabha in 1993 following abstentions by the Congress.

The new Maharashtra chief minister has managed to irk Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray even before his swearing-in. While speaking to news channels in Delhi, Mr Prithviraj Chavan inadvertently referred to Mumbai as “Bambai”. The MNS chief immediately announced that he would gift prayer beads to Mr Chavan for him to memorise the name Mumbai.

Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday welcomed Mr Prithviraj Chavan as the new Maharashtra chief minister. However, the Sena leader also cautioned Mr Chavan not to include any of the tainted ministers involved in the Adarsh Housing Society scam into his Cabinet.