In an attempt to prevent bad weather from affecting the schedule of Commonwealth Games, the authorities have decided to install a dedicated system to forecast weather conditions around the venues on h

Three months after taking charge as the Delhi BJP chief, Vijendra Gupta constituted the team of new office-bearers on Sunday.

Delhi reeled under traffic jams after heavy rains lashed the city on Sunday morning leading to waterlogging at various places.

Thanks to a late approval by the health authorities to allow spray of special mosquito repellent in and around Common-wealth Games Village premises to control dengue, the government will end up paying

Delhiites had to put up with traffic snarls on the arterial roads lining the Commonwealth Games sites on Saturday as the Delhi traffic police started its trial run for dedicated Games lanes. The roads linking the Dhaula Kuan flyover and Sardar Patel Marg and the Vinay Marg in the New Delhi area witnessed chaotic traffic after the trial run for dedicated lanes began.

Encountering hostility and isolation within his own party, Union minister for human resources development Kapil Sibal appears to have at least Prime Minister Manmohan Singh firmly behind him. On Saturday, the PM showered the minister with praise for the work he has done as the country’s HRD minister.

The number of dengue cases in the city went up to 1,226 with 71 new cases being reported on Saturday. Meanwhile, the receding waters of Yamuna near the Commonwealth Games Village threaten to give way to more mosquito breeding.

Two Australian nationals, on a mission to raise awareness and funds about chronic kidney diseases, became the first foreigners to pledge organ donation to India’s premier health institute, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here on Saturday.

The chief chef of a Greater Kailash-based restaurant was one of the five people who died in the city in fatal accidents in the past 24-hours. The accident took place on the August Kranti Marg, when Sohan, a chief chef, had gone to buy dinner for his relatives, who were attending to his ailing brother at AIIMS Trauma Centre. Sohan was hit by a speeding Alto car which had an official government sticker on its windshield.

After a hiatus of eight years, the right-wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad swept three out of four top posts including that of president, in the Delhi University Students Union elections giving a deadly blow to Congress’ National Students’ Union of India.