India on Wednes-day pressed for a “meaningful devolution package based on the 13th Amen-dment” and announced a slew of measures to aid quicker rehabilitation of Tamils displaced by conflict and to revitalise trade and security ties with Sri Lanka.

The Delhi high court on Wednesday refused to restrain the MCD from sealing unauthorised constructions within Metro station premises in the city.
Justice Manmohan Singh passed the order after going through the petition of the DMRC, which pleaded before the court to give the matter an urgent hearing.

The Indian men’s recurve team sealed a second successive final spot at the ongoing World Cup Archery series in Turkey. According to information received here, the top seeds first brushed aside Belarus 224-211 in the pre-quarterfinal, prevailed over Russia (224-219) in the quarters before edging past Japan (216-213) in the semis.
The trio — Rahul Banerjee, Mangal Singh Champia and Jayanta Talukdar — will now take on the United States in the title round on Thursday.

Three persons were injured, one of whom was serious, when they were hit by a overspeeding Chevrolet Optra at New Rajender Nagar in Central Delhi on Wednesday. The driver has been arrested.

Even as the British Airways dispute continues, London Underground maintenance workers on Wednesday announced their decision to go on two 48-hour strikes in a row over jobs, pay and conditions.

Local residents and the Air Force have objected to development of a landfill site at Bawana-Narela in outer Delhi by the MCD on the grounds that it would affect flying of helicopters and make the area inhabitable with foul smell.

In yet another case of daring daylight robbery, four unidentified armed assailants struck at a trader’s shop in northwest Delhi on Wednesday afternoon by holding four staff members hostage at gunpoint and allegedly looting Rs 22 lakhs.

The Delhi government and Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission continue to be at loggerhead over the issue of the new power tariff order. The Delhi government in an apparent bid to strengthen the demands of the private power distribution companies (discoms) on Wednesday listed several reasons in support of power tariff hike, which included uninterrupted power supply during this year’s Commonwealth Games.

A young man was allegedly pushed to death from his residence by a neighbour in the Paharganj area on Tuesday night over a trivial issue.
The police officials said the deceased, identified as Dhirender Choudhary, lived along with his nephew Vipin Kumar on the second-floor of a building near Ramdwara General Market in Paharganj.

The Union home ministry will soon address concerns relating to the possible misuse of the column “nationality as declared” in the National Population Register (NPR) form during the Census 2011 exercise in a meeting convened with chief secretaries of all states. The Bharatiya Janata Party fears that the same can be misused by illegal Bangladeshi migrants to gain citizenship.