More than half of Delhi’s 55,000 autorickshaws went off the roads on Tuesday in a protest against the government’s directive to pay Rs 600 for permanent driver badges.
Of the 25 autorickshaw unions, 14 union took part in the strike that began at 9 am in line with a nationwide industrial shutdown.

The Karawal Nagar police in northeast Delhi on Monday went into a tizzy when they received a call about a murder only to find that it was made by a boy who had taken a murder taking place on the television to be real. He told the police that his parents often used to tell him that he should dial the control room number when if he witnesses a crime.

Not satisfied with the assurance given by the Union minister of state for health Dinesh Trivedi over the issue of security inside the hospital premises, medicos at the Safdarjung hospital decided to continue with their indefinite strike which started off on Tuesday.

The escalation of the war of words between the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and the All-India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) over the security of Ms Jayalalitha, has led the AIADMK MPs to seek the Prime Minister’s intervention.

BJP Mahila Morcha chief and TV actor Smriti Irani and her party workers were assaulted and harassed by Leftist leader in northearn Assam’s Sonitpur district on Tuesday.
BJP organising secretary P. Chandra Sekhar told this newspaper that incident took place near Balipara near Tezpur when Ms Irani with Mahila Morcha vice president S

Intending to avoid antagonising the competing views expressed by leaders of different political parties on the proposed Enemy Property Bill, the government on Tuesday dropped the idea of going in for a fresh ordinance to regulate such properties left behind by those who went to Pakistan during partition. It, instead, decided to bring a new bill in the next session of Parliament.

The defence ministry, headed by Mr A.K. Antony, has ordered a new investigation into the death of Capt. Sumit Kohli in Jammu and Kashmir in 2006 after his family suspected it was not suicide but murder.

Southwest Delhi areas will face power and water cuts following upgradation works being carried out by both Transco and Delhi Jal Board.
The BSES in a statement has stated that following the Transco constructing a 220 KV grid sub-station at ridge valley near Dhaula Kuan, the discom would be shifting the 1

The Delhi police’s special cell on Tuesday arrested a 26-year-old man for allegedly making a hoax call about a bomb placed in one of the boogies of the Andhra Pradesh Express which was stationed at the Nizamuddin Railway Station. The call which was made on August 18 brought the railway station to halt.

Heavyweights like SBI, ONGC, ICICI and Axis Bank, which hit their 52-week high, catapulted the Sensex to close at 18,560.05, up 338.62 points, on Monday. It was the best close in 31 months.