A 42-year-old businessman was found dead under mysterious circumstances in the Nariana area of southwest Delhi on Thursday night.
The police said the deceased, identified as Praveen Kumar, an iron trader, was spotted lying beneath a flyover in the Nariana area of southwest Delhi at around 1.30 am

For the first time, the probe agencies are believed to have found evidence to directly link sacked chairman of the Organising Committee (OC) Suresh Kalmadi with “deliberate” delays in awarding of contracts related to the Commonwealth Games. The Central probe agencies have held him responsible for deliberate delays in awarding of contracts related to catering worth `66.59 crores to an Australian firm, Delaware North, and installation of the kitchen equipment to PKL London.

Reacting to complaints from relatives of some of the (deceased) passengers who died in the Mangalore air-crash that the compensation amount —decided under the provisions of the Carriage by Air Act, 1972 — was unequal, civil aviation minister Vayalar Ravi on Friday evening held a meeting of top Air India officials at the ministry on

The Centre is likely to advice the Maharashtra government to book the persons involved in the killing of additional district collector Yashwant Sonawane, under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA). In wake of the incident, the government is also planning a fresh relook at laws to provide more teeth to state departments and give protection to public servants.

The process for developing railway stations as multi-function complexes (MFCs) with private participation has moved ahead. The Indian Railways has finalised the names of those private developers who will be carrying out the work in five stations to begin with. These stations are in Cuttack, Dehra Dun, Jhansi, Katra and Nanded.

Describing the accommodation to all religious groups in the country’s welfare schemes as the hallmark of secularism and democracy, the Supreme Court on Friday upheld the validity the Haj Act facilitating the grant of travel subsidy to Muslims for Haj pilgrimage every year.

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine a petition seeking to amendment in the top court rules to make hearing of all the appeals in death sentence cases mandatory by a bench of five judges as it involves a vital constitutional question of the right to life and ensuring that no innocent person is hanged.

Union tourism minister Subodh Kant Sahay on Friday stressed on the need for more cooperation among the South Asian countries in tourism. He was speaking during the inauguration of the 18th South Asian Travel and Tourism Exchange (SATTE)-ITB (Berlin), the biggest tour and travel exhibition in the South Asian region. The two-day conference-cum-exhibition also discussed for the first time various aspects of the gay and lesbian tourism in India, which is being seen as a possible new growth segment.

As the ministry of environment & forests (MoEF) gears itself to give a final verdict on the steel giant Posco next week, several financial consultants researching on this `51,000-crore mega project have questioned the MoU signed between India and South Korea.

Is the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society more important for environment minister Jairam Ramesh than the endangered Olive Ridley turtles, a species that enjoys the same legal protection as the tiger?