The maximum temperature in the city on Wednesday was recorded at 42.8 degrees Celsius, which was nearly two degrees less than Tuesday’s maximum of 44.1 degrees. However, the minimum temperature, recorded at 34.2 degrees Celsius, was up by more than six degrees Celsius over Tuesday’s minimum of 28.2 degrees. It is the highest minimum temperature recorded on June 2 in the last five years. A dust haze hung over the city for the better part of the day.

The Centre on Wednesday ordered a CBI probe into the Gyaneswari Express derailment last Friday following another request by railway minister Mamata Banerjee, whose Trinamul Congress demolished the Left in the West Bengal civic elections the same day. The train attack had been blamed on the Maoists.

The caste violence in Haryana, which forced out a group of dalit families from Mirchpur village in Hisar district after their houses were burnt down, took ugly turn on Wednesday when Hisar’s deputy commissioner was attacked and manhandled by angry protesters.

It was his 45th unsuccessful attempt to clear the high school examination but Jabbar Hussain is not giving up. “At 66, I have made 45 attempts to clear the Class 10 examinations and have failed. But I am not giving up. I will continue to try and pass the examination till my last breath,” he says.

The family of Manchandas based in northwest Delhi’s Shalimar Bagh lost five members in a road accident in Haryana’s Ambala district early on Wednesday.
The accident occurred at around 5 am near Devi Nagar when a minibus lost balance after one its rear tyres got punctured. The bus jumped the road divider and collided w

One person died after a Chetak helicopter of the Indian Navy (IN468) crashed into the Sharada River near Anakapalle, about 40 km from Visakhapatnam, on Wednesday noon. There were four personnel on board the chopper and one of them, petty officer, Mr Krishna Kumar, died. He was taken to the NTR Hospital in Anakapalle where he was declared dead.

Students of Vardhman Mahavir Medical College called off the three-day-long hungerstrike after the hospital administration promised to look into their demands at the earliest. The students said that they will continue their silent protest though not disrupting the hospital functioning. The patients in Safdarjung hospital had a tough time in the wake of the strike called by junior doctors, forcing the hospital authorities to close down the out patient departments.

Amritsar police officials, who raided the Chandigarh office-cum-residential premises of Mr Pankaj Bhardwaj, the lead counsel representing Ruchika Girhotra’s family and friends in their legal battle against former Haryana DGP S.P.S. Rathore, said the lawyer is wanted in a multi-crore real estate scam.

Pakistan said on Wednesday that Indo-US strategic dialogue will not have any negative impact on Pak-US relations.

The Director General of Civil Aviation, which has only 32 flight inspection pilots currently, is filling up hundreds of vacancies to technical positions.
As part of its warning to airlines on Wednesday, “the DGCA has asked all operators (airlines) to ensure that ‘correct’ landings are aimed (at) by pilots rather than a