Around 3.49 lakh first time voters in the age group of 18 to 19 will be able to exercise their franchise in assembly polls in the city slated for November.

The Delhi police used scientific investigation techniques to ensure the conviction of the four men found guilty by a fast-track court of gangraping and murdering a 23-year-old paramedical student in December last year.

Following the conviction of all four accused in the December 16 gangrape case by the fast-track court here, the defence counsels said they would challenge the judgment in the high court.

Two men allegedly kidnapped a nine-year-old Class 3 student and her younger sister with an intention to rape her and slashed her private parts with a blade when they failed in their attempt. The incident has been reported from New Usmanpur area of northeast Delhi.

In order to ensure overall better supervision and coordination among the force, the Delhi police on Tuesday increased the number of ranges from the existing four to six.

As gujjar leader and former Delhi NCP president Ramvir Singh Bidhuri joined the BJP along with three NCP councillors on Tuesday, former BJP president and Delhi BJP election in charge Nitin Gadkari said that many more leaders, including leaders from the ruling Congress party fearing anti-incumbency, were keen to join the party.

The South Delhi Municipal Corporation has completed its pilot project to prepare and approve layout plans of the unauthorised colonies on its own expenditure. The SDMC approved the layout plan for the fourth unauthorised colony under its jurisdiction on Tuesday. However, none of the resident welfare associations (RWA) has deposited the fee for the lay out plan.

Delhi police Tuesday came in for special praise for using scientific investigation techniques in the probe into the December 16 gangrape case by a city court which convicted the four men after a fast track trial.

A city court has pulled up the Delhi police for shielding and not tracing owners of brothels running on the G.B. Road and directed the police commissioner to ensure action against those involved in human trafficking and prostitution racket. The direction came on the acquittal of a woman of charges of forcing girls into prostitution and abetting rape.

The Delhi University Students’ Union (Dusu) elections seem to have gone a step ahead than mainstream politics in the use of stratagems for prominence as many candidates have added weird-sounding initials to their names to appear on the top of the ballot paper.