The second and last phase of Census operations started in the city on Wednesday with the enumeration of chief minister Sheila Dikshit. The first phase of Census, named the House Listing and Housing Census, was conducted from April to September, 2010. The second phase, Population Enumeration, is being conducted

The city legislators are looking ahead to a Valentine Day gift as the Delhi Cabinet is expected to take up a proposal to effect a three-fold hike in salary and perks for MLAs and ministers in a meeting on February 14. As per the Cabinet proposal, the hike in salary and perks is based on the grounds of “price rise and hike in salaries of MPs and government employees following 6th Pay Commission recommendations”.

Five years after seven persons were arrested by Delhi police on charges of involvement in terror activities after an encou-nter, a city court, while acquitting them has blasted the police for scripting an encounter sitting in the office. It has directed the Delhi police commissioner to conduct an inquiry against four officials of sub-inspector

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and enforcement directorate will file the status report on the 2G spectrum allocation scam in the Supreme Court on Thursday.

The Supreme Court on Thursday sentenced former Congress minister from Kerala R. Balakrishna Pillai and two others to one-year imprisonment for abusing their position in the award of contract for the Edamalayar hydroelectric power project.

The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the government to ensure that Pune-based businessman Hasan Ali Khan, accused of stashing black money in foreign banks, does not leave the country.

The one-man committee that went into allocation of spectrum from 2001 to 2009 has come down heavily on the controversial first-come, first-serve (FCFS) policy in entertaining applications and has sought complete transparency in spectrum allocation and assignment.

Government has appointed a high-powered committee to review various aspects of the controversial deal Isro's commercial arm Antrix had struck with a private company for lease of scarce S-band spectrum.

The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its verdict on a petition which has challenged P.J. Thomas' appointment as central vigilance commissioner on the grounds that he was facing a chargesheet in a palm oil imports case and was not an outstanding civil servant of impeccable integrity.

Leaders of the banned Ulfa on Thursday met home minister P. Chidambaram as they began face-to-face unconditional talks with the Centre in an attempt to usher in peace in insurgency-hit Assam.