A 18-year-old woman working as a domestic help was found dead in mysterious circumstances at the servant quarters of a businessman’s residence in west Delhi on Monday morning.

The central leadership of the Congress Party has cleared two more names for the impending bypolls in the Telangana region. They are Mr V. Krishna Rao for Huzurabad and Mr T. Srinivas Goud for Siddipet. Now only two more names need to be cleared for two more constituencies, namely Korutla and Manchiryala.

These are good times for Bastian Schweinsteiger. The Bayern Munich ace has been the player of the tournament; with his silken skills and his dominant outings, the 25-year-old has won praise from all quarters. However, none will sound sweeter than the words of appreciation from former World Cup winning captain and manager Franz Beckenbauer.

With the onset of monsoon, the city is now dealing with the problem of waterlogging, which is likely to get worse with all the digging being carried out for various Games projects. On Monday, the MCD control rooms received 95 complaints of waterlogging. However, the MCD claimed that it was prepared to deal with the problems of waterlogging.

The additional sessions court in Margao on Monday extended former Goa tourism minister Mickky Pacheco’s judicial custody by another day to Tuesday.
Mr Pacheco had surrendered before the court on Saturday after remaining underground for almost a month. After his bail plea was rejected, he had complained of chest pains and was admitted to the Hospicio Hospital in Margao on Saturday itself.

Have you ever found that you’ve been left out of your favourite sport even though you’ve spent weeks practicing because the coach or school sports captain doesn’t think you’ve got what it takes?

While Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikhsit on Monday said that the “Bharat Bandh” organised by the Opposition parties was a “flop show”, she also stated that the price rise is a “matter of concern” for the Delhi and the Central governments.

The Delhi high court on Monday said that there was no need for ailing former defence minister and Rajya Sabha member George Fernandes to change his place of residence and allowed his wife to take care of him till July 19.

The “Bharat Bandh” was supposed to be an effort on the part of the Opposition parties, particularly the BJP, to show that they care for the common man reeling under high price rise. However, as it turned out, the people on the road found it difficult to concur with the political parties’ views, caught as they were in some of the worst traffic

Anil Ambani group’s RNRL saw its stock price crash 27 per cent Monday, on expected lines. Meanwhile, Reliance Power, the company into which it is being merged, saw stock price go up 3.6 per cent on the Bombay Stock Exchange.