India had recieved specific intelligence inputs warning of terror strikes by Al Qaeda and LeT during the Delhi Commonwealth Games, prompting security agencies to throw an additional blanket of securit

All good things come to an end. So, even as the heat and dust of successfully hosting the XIXth Commonwealth Games is yet to settle, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ordered an inquiry into the charges of corruption and irregularities that began swirling in the run-up to the Games.

Paving the way to initiate criminal trial against former MCD councillor Ashok Jain and his nine associates, Tis Hazari Court additional sessions judge (ASJ) has charged them with criminal conspiracy and murder for allegedly eliminating a property dealer three years ago as he felt the victim spoiled his political career by lodging a corruption complaint against him with the CBI.

A 48-year-old woman managed to force four robbers beat a hasty retreat near Sujan Singh Park in New Delhi on Friday. According to the police, Guddi Devi, a resident of government quarters at Lodhi Colony, was going to a doctor with her daughter Rajni. Two persons claiming to be policemen in plainclothes stopped them near Sujan

The MCD has decided to send the bill incurred on the additional sanitation staff it deployed for cleaning of Games Village and the expenses required to clear the stench of Barapulla nullah to the Delhi government. In a meeting of the MCD House, the BJP councillors also condemned organising committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi taking the name of former mayor instead of the present incumbent during his speech at the closing ceremony on Thursday.

A day after the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games, Delhi BJP demanded the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to fulfil his promise of getting the guilty persons punished after a proper enquiry into the corruption in the Games.

A Delhi BJP delegation will meet lieutenant-governor Tejendra Khanna against the hike in the circle rates decided by the city government.

After the Cabinet meeting here on Tuesday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held a 20-minute-long meeting with his ministerial colleagues, who belong to Karnataka, and discussed with them the developments in the state following the controversial trust vote in the Assembly.

On a day replete with much political hob-nobbing, embattled Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa accepted state governor H.R. Bhardwaj’s offer to face a second trust vote on October 14. At the same time, an unhappy BJP sought to rally behind its CM, with senior BJP leader L.K. Advani seeking an appointment with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the allegedly “partisan” role played by the governor in the Karnataka developments.

Metro fortified its security ahead of the closing ceremony by erecting more than 100 security pickets inside and outside various Metro Stations across the capital.
The pickets or “morchas” are constructed inside the stations with sandbags and CISF is manning them. The CISF has deployed 2,000 additional men for the job at s