Kolkatans are likely to get some respite from the ongoing discomfort and hot conditions in the next 24 hours. The officials at the regional meteorological centre, Alipore, has forecasted that the city and its adjacent areas are likely to experience rain or thundershower in some areas during evening and night.

After a brief respite from the excessive heat in the months of March and April, the capital witnessed its hottest day of the season so far with the maximum temperature being recorded at 44.4 degrees Celsius. It was also

In an interim relief to the cellular operators providing telecom service in the capital, the Delhi high court on Thursday restrained the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) from sealing illegal mobile phone towers till further orders. Meanwhile, the MCD said that it will contest the Delhi high court’s stay order and claimed that it

Four days after a Delhi school boy Shivam Soni died after falling from the balcony of a Mussoorie hotel, chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday said that she will soon write to the Uttarakand chief minister Ramesh Pokhriyal “Nishank” to request a crime branch inquiry into the case.

All the 408 petrol pumps in the city will remain shut for 24 hours from Friday morning with the dealers continuing with their demand to slash the VAT rates on diesel. However, the government remained unfazed by the strike call.

One suspect has been detained in connection with the Kalkaji murder case by the police which claimed to have recovered a “coin” looted by unidentified assailants in a daring double robbery on Wednesday night from his possession.

The Metro trial runs on the Gurgaon-Qutub Minar stretch are likely to begin by the end of this week as the Gurgaon-Central Secretariat line nears completion.

The CBI has registered cases against three petrol pump owners in the city for unauthorisedly storing petroleum products at their respective pumps for the purpose of adulteration of petrol and diesel.

Under fire for his disparaging remarks against Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav, Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari has now sought to fend off the flak by describing them as “respectable leaders.”

Reiterating his party’s opposition to dialogue with Pakistan, Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari launched yet another broadside against the export of terror from across the border in calling for a change in Indian laws to ensure prompt punishment for terrorists like Ajmal Kasab.