A 35-year-old executive was shot dead by assailants when he resisted a robbery attempt at his residence in west Delhi on Thursday evening.
The incident is the latest in a series of heinous crimes that have taken place in the city, where a sudden spurt in crime rate is being seen after the Commonwealth Games. Over the last week, more than a dozen cases of heinous crimes have been reported from the city.

After he lands in New Delhi on November 7, US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama will be visiting Humayun’s Tomb, the 450-year-old monument which is also a world heritage site. While the tomb has itself been restored in July and August this year and has been fully illuminated, the Archaeological Survey of India said that no special preparations were being planned for the occasion.

Barack Obama’s itinerary in Mumbai and to a lesser extent New Delhi resembles a CEO’s than a visiting head of state.
The major focus of his engagements in Mumbai will be his message on economics, on increasing exports, supporting jobs in the US, and commercial deals that he hopes will be clinched by the time he lands in the city.

Former Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday stated that the Congress will move a privilege motion against Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and the then finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal for misleading the House.

As many as 34 women leaders belonging to different castes and communities have become AICC members from Uttar Pradesh. Their empowerment could certainly pose a threat to the BSP led by chief minister Mayawati.

Cash worth `6.44 lakhs was recovered on Thursday from the hotel room of Congress party’s central leader Sagar Raika and Bihar Youth Congress president Lallan Kumar in Begusarai by the police who suspected the money was meant for distribution among voters to unfairly influence them.

The BJP high command cautioned the Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj from making “unnecessary remarks.” Ms Swaraj was ticked off by party leadership for her remarks that Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi’s “magic does not work everywhere” when she was asked whether Mr Modi will campaign for the Bihar Assembly polls.

India’s two leading ladies in politics, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati of the BSP, on Thursday took on Bihar’s ruling JD(U)-BJP alliance and its greatest opponent, the RJD-LJP combine, in passionate campaign speeches heard by thousands of voters.

Russian psychological drama set in a meteorological station in the Arctic Circle, How I Ended This Summer, has been awarded the best film award at the London Film Festival.

The Centre on Thursday took a decision not to file any case against hardline Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani and writer-activist Arundhati Roy for purportedly delivering “hate speeche