Will the controversial chairman of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Suresh Kalmadi be able to face the Lok Sabha when it will discuss the alleged corruption in the Commonwealth Games projects next week, is a question being discussed in political circles.

The Metro services were affected for about half-an-hour on Dwarka line during the morning rush hour on Friday when a man jumped in front of a train at Janakpuri East station in an apparent suicide attempt.

Former Union minister and the sitting Congress MP from Nagpur, Vilas Muttemwar has come out openly against the moves to set up a thermal power plant in the heart of Nagpur. He urged Prime Minister to intervene and direct the Maharashtra government and ministry of environment to shift proposed thermal power plant outside the city.

A 52-year-old street vendor in Sarojini Nagar market, who was involved in a scuffle with the officials of the NDMC and the local police on Thursday evening, died of cardiac arrest in the early hours of Friday. There were allegations that he was “mentally tortured” by the civic and police officials at the police station, which led to his death.

Maintaining that it stands by its statement given in Parliament on caste census issue, the main Opposition BJP on Friday replied to finance minister Pranab Mukherjee’s letter asking party’s view on the issue. In the reply, leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, Ms Sushma Swaraj, has written, “The party reiterates that caste can be canvassed

With 25 days to go for the Commonwealth Games Village to be handed over to the Games organising committee, the authorities are confident that work will be completed on time. There were reports that at some places in the Village certain fittings and furnishings were missing. However, the officials clarified that a few replacements were required as they did not meet the specifications.

Mystery shrouds the death of a junior engineer of the DDA, who was working on the Vasant Kunj flats project related to the Commonwealth Games 2010. He was found dead on railway tracks near Ghaziabad railway station on July 28 afternoon. While the Ghaziabad police is treating it as a case of accidental death and his family

The commuters on the National Highway 24 (NH 24) had a harrowing time in the morning when several vehicles carrying kanwarias took to this particular road from Ghaziabad to Akshardham on Friday morning. The kanwarias have been given the NH 58, which hits Delhi from the Uttar Pradesh side at Dilshad Garden as a dedicated corridor to facilitate their smooth movement.

A contingent of 120 CRPF personnel would soon be joining the United Nations mission in Liberia, where it would provide security cover to its Prime Minister, besides training the war-torn country’s police force.

A married woman in Mathura district, who had gone missing 16-years-ago, has returned home with three children in tow.
Her husband Laxmikant, father-in-law Ramesh Chandra Chaturvedi, mother-in-law Saraswati and brother-in-law Chandrakant had to spend several years in jail when the woman, Vanadana’s father accused them of abducting his daughter and then killing her.