A fleet of 13 US aircraft, more than a dozen limousines, US helicopters and 500 security officials from the United States have already landed in India ahead of US President Barack Obama’s visit to the

In an effort to build pressure on the government on corruption issues, including financial irregularities in Commonwealth Games and Adarsh Housing Society scam, during the Winter Session of Parliament

Bihar’s long fascination with bursting Diwali firecrackers bearing the names and pictures of top regional leaders like Lalu Prasad Yadav and Nitish Kumar has gone ahead this time to add Sonia Gandhi a

The Delhi police’s special cell has busted an international drug racket and seized heroin worth crores of rupees from a former ground staffer of Amritsar airport who has been arrested.

Poor social infrastructure in education and health has kept India’s ranking at a low 119th in the UNDP’s Human Develop-ment Index released worldwide on Thursday.

The Rajasthan anti-terrorist squad has made one more arrest in the Ajmer blast case, that of Harshadbhai Solanki, alias Munna alias Raj, who was allegedly also a key suspect in the Baroda Best Bakery incident, in which 14 people were killed during the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Officials at Rajghat have said they will not allow securitymen to bring in sniffer dogs to secure the samadhi before US President Barack Obama comes visiting on November 8 morning. They had been used duing former US President George W. Bush’s 2006 visit there, leading to a political storm. That, the samadhi committee officials said, had been a mistake and it would not be repeated.

The Delhi Metro services on Friday, the day of Diwali, will stop operating three hours before the usual time of 11 pm.
According to a DMRC spokesperson, the services will stop on all the six lines three hours ahead of the schedule. The last train on Friday will start 8 pm from terminal stations. On Sunday, 33 extra trains would undertake 453 additional trips to cater to the “Bhai Duj” rush.

A day after the probe panel submitted its report on the collapse of the foot overbridge near the J.N. Stadium, the Delhi government has asked the British firm Macalloy, which had supplied the steel frame, to provide details about deficiencies in the design of the structure.

A survey under the Mission Convergence of the Delhi government has pegged the number of socially vulnerable at eight lakh, while noting that there are about 2,200 households being run by children in the absence of their parents. Delhi government is working on a plan to come up with family development scheme to gauge the impact of various social welfare schemes being run by it.