With people criss-crossing the city for Raksha Bandhan rituals, the capital witnessed traffic congestion on various stretches on Tuesday. The worst affected was the 15-km stretch from ISBT (Kashmere Gate) to Shastri Park, extending up to Apsara border, with commuters forced to deal with bumper-to-bumper traffic for well over five

With less than 40 days remaining for the Commonwealth Games, the public works department is yet to complete at least 14 out of the 34 projects it had undertaken for the event. Besides the crucial project of Barapulla Nullah elevated road project, others still pending completion pertain to street-lighting and street-scaping on PWD roads.

The Yamuna water level continued to remain above the danger mark and with more water released from Haryana it is likely to rise further. The water has also reportedly entered the outer periphery of Nigambodh ghat.

British tycoon Sir Richard Branson on Tuesday was forced to abandon his attempt to kitesurf across the English Channel.
He had hoped to celebrate his 60th birthday by becoming the oldest person to cross the 24.4-mile English Channel by kite-board. He also wanted to set a second record by being part of a kite-board team making the fastest crossing across the channel.

Irked by a callous bureaucratic poser on whether he was Indian or not, the world chess champion Viswanathan Anand on Tuesday refused the degree of doctor of philosophy (honoris causa) offered by University of Hyderabad.

The Election Commission of India on Tuesday flatly denied any role in the arrest of Hari Prasad for allegedly stealing an electronic voting machine (EVM) from a godown in South Mumbai. Hari Prasad, a technical coordinator of VeTA (Citizens for Verifiability, Transparency and Accountability in Elections), has been in the fore-front of a campaign to prove the theory that electronic voting machines can be tampered with.

Mumbai Congress leaders want the party to fight the coming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation elections on its own after defeating the Shiv Sena-MNS and the BJP on its home turf in the Lok Sabha and the state Assembly polls twice since 2004. The Congress, too, is not keen to have a pre-poll alliance with the Sharad Pawar-led party in this election.

The RJD leaders are hopeful that the Muslim support will come back to the party in this year’s Bihar Assembly election, after party chief Lalu Prasad Yadav was declared the chief ministerial candidate of the Rashtriya Janata Dal-Lok Janshakti Party combine.

British Prime Minister David Cameron, who is the country’s youngest Prime Minister in two centuries, announced the birth of his fourth child, a daughter, on Tuesday.
The baby was born prematurely on Tuesday afternoon as Mr Cameron, 43, and his wife Samantha were on holiday in Cornwall with their two children, Nancy, 6, and Arthur, 4. Their eldest son Ivan, who suffered from cerebral palsy and epilepsy, died in February last year.

In the wake of a recent Pentagon report that China is moving advanced CSS-5 ballistic missiles to areas close to the Sino-Indian border, New Delhi is clearly taking no chances. The government is now ready to induct the nuclear-capable Agni-III ballistic missile — with a range of 3,000-3,500 km and capable of hitting targets in China —