With Delhi reeling under hot and humid conditions and the maximum temperature being recorded at 44.3 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, chief minister Sheila Dikshit directed the private power distribution companies to pull up their socks and ensure uninterrupted power supply.

Vishal Yadav’s Winning Desire is all set to extended her winning sequence to complete a hat-trick with yet another victory in the Royal Western India Race Club Ltd, Trophy, the feature event of the races to be held here on Wednesday.

The Delhi police claimed to have contacted one of the girls who had eloped with a youth from a different caste on Sunday, which triggered the tragic triple murder in the name of “honour” in Ashok Vihar area on Sunday.

The Queen’s Baton for the Commonwealth Games will cross into India at the Wagah-Attari border this Friday from Pakistan after covering 70 countries and a distance of almost 170,000 kilometres.

The Delhi government’s transport department on Monday announced that the commuters in the capital will have to pay 35 per cent more from Wednesday for travelling in autorickshaws and taxis. The government said all the 55,000 autorickshaws in the city will have to install a global positioning system (GPS) connected to a call centre within six months. The move is aimed at checking overcharging by drivers.

Suspended IPL chairman Lalit Modi’s ouster now looks imminent with the Board of Control for Cricket in India on Tuesday rejecting his defence of all three showcause notices issued to him.

Assam special court on Tuesday directed the Guwahati jail authorities to produce the deputy director of social welfare department, R.H. Khan, the prime accused of North Cachar Hills scam before the court on June 28.

Following the rapid rise in honour killings and Supreme Court taking cognisance, the Union law and justice ministry has swung into action to bring a legislation in this regard in the Monsoon Session starting mid-July.

Caught in the so-called compulsion of votebank politics, both the two major political parties — Congress and BJP — on Tuesday preferred to tread cautiously on khap panchayats by lobbing the ball in the government’s court.

During the forthcoming G-20 Summit in Toronto, India and Canada are all set to sign a civil nuclear agreement. Once that is done it will ensure India supply of Uranium besides co-operation in nuclear research and development, nuclear waste management, radiation safety and environment protection.