Diesel will cost Rs 2.50 less per litre in Delhi as the state government on Friday rolled back VAT on the fuel from the existing 20 per cent to 12.5 per cent.
The decision will help contain inflationary trends and bring relief to the common man, Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit said while announcing the rollback.

The Enforcement Directorate, probing the multi-crore hawala racket involving former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda and his former Cabinet colleagues, on Friday attached properties of his two former ministers in Jharkhand.

Five Army officers, including a colonel and two majors, four soldiers and two civilian collaborators have been chargesheeted by the J&K police in the alleged April 30 staged gunfight killing of three local youth in Machael sector, along the LoC.

The Survey of India in a fresh report to the Supreme Court has accused the Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh governments of not cooperating with its team in demarcation of the disputed mines.

Amid claims by Delhi mayor P.R. Sawhney that the MCD works related to the Games will be completed by July 31, there are apprehensions that certain works related to the street-scaping and beautification may be completed only in August.

With the battle between Karnataka governor H.R. Bhardwaj and the BJP getting worse with each passing day, reports suggest that the Reddy brothers controversy has fuelled a division within the BJP itself. To ease the growing tension in the state over the issue, state chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on late Friday night reached Delhi to meet with the party top brass.

A man was beaten to death by his neighbour and his associates in the Kapashera area of southwest Delhi on Friday morning.
The police said the accused and his associates are absconding after the incident. The deceased has been identified as Raju, 30. According to a senior police officer, the i

Trying to play vote bank politics, the JD(U) on Friday appeared to be soft on Maoists and blamed the Centre’s new economic policy and exploitation of tribals by corporates for the rise of Naxalites in Bihar. JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav in a press conference strongly opposed the use of the Army against Maoists.

At least 20 pillars on the airport express Metro line needed strengthening as an “abundant precaution”, reveals an RTI reply.
The Delhi Metro had to use over 20 times more steel and over double the concrete used initially in the pillars to give them desired strength. However, no agency was held responsible for the loopholes in the work that cost Rs 6 crores.

AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh on Friday appreciated SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav’s apology to Muslims for associating with Mr Kalyan Singh, a one-time poster boy of the Sangh Parivar. However, he made it clear that the Congress would not have any alliance with the SP even after the apology and will go alone in the coming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.