The eighth edition of “We Care Film Fest” — an annual international festival of documentary films on disability issues was launched on Thursday at the United Nations Information Centre here.

Taking a strong exception to the non-dismissal of former ACP S.S. Rathi, convicted for killing two innocent persons in an encounter due to mistaken identity in 1997, Justice S.

The post-mortem of the restaurant manager who was killed near Khan Market on Tuesday afternoon was conducted by a panel of doctors at the Maulana Azad Medical College on Thursday.

A 22-year-old woman, who had recently married a 24-year-old youth against the wishes of his family, was found dead under mysterious circumstances at her in-law’s house on Tuesday.

Nafed on Thursday began selling onions through mobile vans in the city. The traders in Azadpur Mandi, meanwhile, claimed that the price of onions would come down considerably with the fresh lot expected by next week.

The Sarita Vihar-Badarpur section of Delhi Metro will open at 8 am on Friday. The Commissioner for Metro Rail Safety R.K. Kardam had given the statutory safety clearance on Thursday, a Delhi Metro official said.

An uneasy calm prevailed at Jangpura in Nizamuddin on Thursday where the razing down of a mosque that had come up illegally on DDA land on Wednesday led to a pitched battle between the local residents and the police. The protesters, meanwhile, continued to demand re-construction of the mosque. A few of them damaged a DTC bus while blocking the traffic on Mathura Road for some time, forcing the police to close the road from Neela Gumbad towards Oberoi Hotel.

A 65-year-old doctor and his wife apparently died at their residence in south Delhi due to suffocation from poisonous gases from a gas-heater in their room.
The police said that the incident took place at a flat in Paryavaran Complex in Lado Sarai at around 2.30 pm. The deceased, identified as Avinash Prasad and his wife

The body of a 20-year-old vendor was found in a bag near an MCD school in Dwarka area of southwest Delhi.
The police said the deceased has been identified as Bablu, a native of Uttar Pradesh, a fruit vendor. Babloo was putting up with his four friends in a rented room in Kakrola village in Sector 12, Dwarka.

Inflation shot up to 8.43 per cent in December, from 7.48 per cent in the previous month, as prices of certain food and non-food items continued to show an upward trend.