Thieves struck at a jewellery shop in south Delhi on Tuesday night by digging a four-foot-long tunnel to execute one of the rarest thefts reported from the capital.
The police said the thieves walked inside the drain for about seventy metres and dug a tunnel which led them to the shop in Khanpur. Jewellery worth `10 lakhs is reported missing. Siddharth Prakash, the owner of Rastogi Jewellers On Devli main road said he opened his shop on Wednesday morning and found the tiles on the floor broken.

The markets in the city saw huge crowds on Wednesday as people indulged in shopping that is considered auspicious on the occasion of Dhanteras, two days before Diwali. The stress was on buying precious metals like gold and silver, besides utensils.

Is another son about to rise in politics. Union finance minister and veteran Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee’s son Abhijit Mukherjee may soon make his foray into state politics. Mr Mukherjee has two sons — Abhijit and Surajit — and a daughter. In a well-attended meeting at Nalhati town hall in Birbhum on Wednesday, the district Congress leaders made a strong pitch for his nomination from Nalhati constituency in the coming Assembly polls.

Unprecedented security measures are expected to be put in place during US President Barack Obama’s visit to India beginning Saturday. An elaborate security drill will be carried out in Mumbai on Thursday involving US secret service agents, officials of Indian security agencies and NSG commandos and snipers. The Mumbai police,

Terming the just-concluded AICC meeting “bogus”, the main Opposition BJP on Wednesday alleged the meeting failed in giving any direction either to the Congress or to the nation. The party also accused the Congress of diverting public attention from corruption cases under its rule by targeting the RSS.

Under attack for remaining silent on the issue of corruption at the AICC meeting, the Congress on Wednesday hit back at the BJP by accusing it as a party of “coffin chor”.
Countering the allegations levelled against the top party leaders by the BJP accusing them to be silent on the issue corruption, AICC spokesperson Manish Tewari said, “The saffron party, among others, can more specifically be described in three expressions — coffin chor, descendants of Bangaru Lakshman and offering hospitality to terrorists. They have no right to teach us lesson, as to how confront the issue of corruption.”

Continuing its attack on the PMO and the Union Cabinet over financial irregularities in the Commonwealth Games (CWG), the main Opposition BJP on Wednesday alleged that both the PMO and Cabinet approved cost escalation for Games projects five times between 2007 and 2009. The party said escalated Games projects cost

The irrepressible RJD chief, Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav, has asked Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit to build more public urinals in the national capital instead of carping about the swarms of migrant Biharis dirtying the city.

Who can predict when a joyous occasion turns into a mishap? Even though it’s understood that everybody must be safe while celebrating Diwali, no one can guarantee it will be so.

A decision on the fate of Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan could be taken on November 8. This is because the Congress high command does not want the Opposition to make this an issue in the Winter Session of Parliament beginning on November 9.