The North Delhi Power Ltd (NDPL) on Friday approached the Delhi high court for a direction to the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) to determine the tariff for the financial year 2010-11.

With Saturday being the last date for submission of forms for admission to nursery classes, many schools have doubled the number of counters to handle last-minute rush. The schools have even demanded police presence to ensure there was no untoward incident during the process.

On a day when bikers once again went on a rampage in the city, almost striking at will, two bike-borne assailants assaulted a 37-year-old businessman near HDFC Bank branch in Vikaspuri, snatched his bag containing `1.85 lakhs in cash and escaped with it successfully.

A bank security guard was shot at by unidentified assailants when he resisted their attempt to barge into an ATM while it was being refilled with currency in Dwarka on Friday morning.

A salesman at a jewellery shop in South Extension market was shot at and robbed by armed bikers on Friday morning.
The police said the victim, identified as Sita Ram, who works for “Blue Gems and Jewels” in South Extension Part I, had left the store along with a security guard Sudhir to deposit `11.4 lakhs in Union Bank of India’s D block branch in the area.

A large number of people on Friday offered prayers at the spot where a mosque, which had come up illegally on DDA land, was razed on Wednesday morning in Jangpura area of southeast Delhi. Stray incidents of protest were also reported amid heavy presence of security forces.

Indian Army Chief General V.K. Singh has said cross-border incursions had come down and the situation in Jammu and Kashmir appeared “better” now, but he put the onus of making the situation “even better” on the state government.

A Delhi court Saturday granted bail to former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (OC) official Sanjay Mahendroo, who was arrested for his alleged involvement in the queen's baton relay scam.

A day after submitting a protest letter on Union minister Kapil Sibal’s comments on the CAG’s findings on the presumptive losses caused in the allocation of 2G spectrum, the CAG wrote a letter of request to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) urging it to summon the Union minister before the PAC and ask him to explain his statements. Mr Sibal had said the CAG’s conclusions on the loss to the exchequer being `1.76 lakh crore was “utterly erroneous”.

Battling increasing criticism from the aam aadmi and the Opposition for its failure to check rising prices, the government on Thursday sought to reassure the common man by spelling out once again the steps it is taking to check the upward spiral. It said it will be undertaking a periodic review of the import and export of all essential commodities and warned of a crackdown against hoarders and black-marketeers who manipulate prices.