The Congress’ Chintan Shivir, a brainstorming session of the party, is unlikely to be held before the Budget Session of Parliament. Congress sources on Monday indicated that there is no urgency in calling the brainstorming session after the party plenary but it could be held during April-May, they felt.

Nearly nine years after Abdul Gani Lone’s son Sajjad Lone accused Pakistan’s ISI of killing his father, Sajjad has now said that he agrees with former Hurriyat chairman Abdul Gani Butt’s recent statement wherein he said that “our own men” killed the elder Lone and Mirwaiz Mohammed Farooq.

The BJP’s attempts to make Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh the favourite punching bag could be counter-productive. This is because the saffron party is on the defensive on the corruption issue in Karnataka and lacks a leader with a clean image to fight the battle against corruption.

Seven persons, including six children, were injured when a drum containing chemicals exploded outside a printing press at Okhla on Monday.

Terming his crime as the “rarest of the rare” warranting nothing less than the gallows, a city court on Monday sentenced a 25-year-old man to death for mercilessly killing his father and chopping his body for sacrifice to a deity in 2008 in the belief that it would ward off his troubles with his wife.

The body of an eight-year-old girl, who had gone missing since January 3, was found in an under-construction building a couple of lanes away from her house in Patel Nagar on Monday. The police is trying to find out whether the girl was sexually assaulted. Two minor boys living in the locality are suspected to be involved in the incident.

A 52-year-old man, who had links with Hizbul Mujahideen and other terrorist organisations, was on Monday sentenced to 14 years’ rigorous imprisonment for raising funds for banned terror outfits by a Delhi court which noted that acts of terrorism have to be dealt with suitably at the judicial level.

Unidentified armed assailants went on a rampage at Uttam Nagar in west Delhi on Sunday evening, carrying out three incidents within an hour and looting cash and jewellery worth lakhs of rupees while firing gunshots and stabbing a medical store owner. The A1/350, Hastsal Road residence of a property dealer was burgled by

A 40-year-old property dealer was shot dead by two bikers at Rani Bagh on Sunday night. The deceased, Sahil Khatri, 42 was returning to his A-block, Sector-4, Rohini residence from Gurdwara Bangla Sahib when two bikers intercepted him near Sharda Niketan and shot him. Khatri was hit in his chest and fell off his bike. The assailants escaped with his motorcycle.

A factory employee was shot at and robbed of `6 lakhs by four bikers at Jyoti Nagar in northeast Delhi on Monday morning.
The victim, identified as Kuldeep Singh, 32, who worked at a picture tube manufacturing unit in Wazirabad, had left his Amar Colony residence of Jyoti Nagar at around 9.30 am on Monday on a motorcycle, the police said.