An Australian national was held hostage by two unidentified assailants at Bhuli Bhatiyari Mahal in Lutyens’ Delhi and robbed of his gold ornaments on Wednesday. The police said the victim, who had arrived in the national capital last week on a tourist visa, was staying at Chanchal Delux Hotel.

A gang of bikers is on the prowl in the high-security Parliament Street area of Lutyens’ Delhi, targeting a senior official of railway ministry and a businessman within the space of a few days while the police is groping for a clue to the identities of the assailants.

Burglars are having a free run in Lutyens’ Delhi. Two incidents were reported from the high-security areas in the capital within a span of three days.

Bank account holders from whose bank accounts cash had been withdrawn to make the alleged pay-offs to MPs in the cash-for-vote scam in 2008 are now being questioned by the Delhi police.

Incessant rains may have played a spoilsport for the forensic experts who had come to collect evidence and samples from outside the Delhi high court on Wednesday where a powerful explosion left at least 11 dead.

It was meant to be another hectic PIL (public interest litigation) day at the Delhi high court on Wednesday when a powerful explosion near the reception area of Gate No 5 that is normally used by litigants and lawyers to gain access into the court premises, shattered the calm.

Former SP leader Amar Singh was “fully aware” of the conspiracy that the then BJP MPs were being bribed to abstain from voting in the 2008 trust vote in Lok Sabha but didn’t inform the law enforcement agencies. His arrest on

Despite written assurances, the team is apparently flouting the Supreme Court and the police guidelines during the ongoing fast at Ramlila Maidan. The Delhi police is likely to press criminal charges against the Team Anna. There have been alleged violation of at least seven clauses given in the undertaking which was submitted before the police.

It’s 8 pm. A large crowd of men, women and youngsters is waiting at the Rajiv Chowk Metro Station for the next train to take them home. There are about a dozen supporters of social activist Anna Hazare in the crowd, young and middle-aged, prominent by their I-am-Anna white caps or a tricolour flung

The Delhi police has asked its force to keep a “low profile” while dealing with the protest marches called by the social activist Anna Hazare to avoid any disturbance to the peace in the city.