Indian doctors have added one more feather in their cap by curing a thalassemic patient. To her immense relief, seven-year-old Harshita does not need to go for monthly blood transfusion any more. This is first such case in India and fourth in the world.

Catching up with the recent exploits of the Indian athletes in the Commonwealth Games and also at the Asian Games, the MCD on Tuesday approved the proposal for having a sports policy to prepare future athletes.

The post mortem examination of the Amici Café manager, who lost his life in a road rage accident at the upscale Khan Market last week, has revealed that the victim died of cardiac arrest.

A 20-year-old mentally-challenged woman was lured by her uncle to south-west Delhi’s Najafgarh on January 7 and allegedly raped consecutively for five days, the police said on Tuesday.

The Delhi Bhartiya Janata Party leaders came on bullock carts, cycles and rickshaws on Tuesday to stage protest against the petrol price hike at Jantar Mantar.
The Bhartiya Janata Party workers were stopped from marching to Parliament, with the police using water cannons against the activists who broke the barricade.

In the second incident in less than a week, government has transferred back home yet another diplomat for allegedly misbehaving with a passenger on an Air India flight to New York.

With food inflation still high at 16.91 per cent on account of the high prices of vegetables, milk and meat, agriculture minister Sharad Pawar said his ministry had no direct role in the cultivation of perishables.

The Union council of ministers will be reshuffled on Wednesday with six to seven new faces likely to be inducted into the team. Minister of state for civil aviation Praful Patel could be elevated to Cabinet rank.

Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP Mahmood Madani, while expressing his concern over the emergence of the new face of terror involving those “belonging to the majority community”

To expedite investigation in “Hindu terror” cases, the Centre has decided to opt for “video-conferencing’’ of accused persons whose linkages are surfacing in more than one case. These involve Hindu extremists whose names have surfaced in terror cases such as the Ajmer, Mecca Masjid, Malegaon and Samjhauta blasts, which are being probed by different agencies.