The man on the street already knows about it, but the government has just confirmed it. Food inflation, which measures the pace at which prices of food stuffs is going up, rose to 18.32 per cent for the week ending December 25. The rise is largely due to increase in the prices of onions, milk, meat, fruit and vegetables, which have gone up from 20-80 per cent compared to the last year.

It’s not just the Opposition parties which are criticising the BJP for its plan to hoist the national flag at Lal Chowk in Srinagar on Republic Day, even its own alliance partners and a section of its own leaders are criticising the saffron party for its proposed plan. Sources said a section of BJP leaders are of the view that this move will

The “balancing act” done by Justice B.N. Srikrishna Committee report pertaining to the demand for a separate Telangana state, could give a set back to the demand for creating smaller states, especially Vidarbha, Gorkhaland, Bundelkhand, Purvanchal and Harit Pradesh.

Even as the Congress has decided to tread carefully on the Telangana issue before venturing to give its opinion, the Opposition parties at the national level are clearly a divided house over the controversial issue.

Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Thursday, referring to the Srikrishna Committee recommendations, said that the report itself has rejected the first three options as “non-practicable”. The committee has placed a set of six options before the Centre.

A Delhi police sub-inspector, who was to retire from services this year, committed suicide on Thursday by shooting himself allegedly with his service pistol. Initial investigations in the case revealed that the deceased, Ajit Singh was going through depression due to family and financial problems.

Five Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) men were sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment by additional sessions judge (ASJ) R.K. Gauba on Thursday for indulging in terrorist activities.

The MCD on Thursday said that on account of extreme cold conditions, its primary schools will remain closed from January 9 to January 13. Meanwhile, despite slight improvement in the maximum and minimum temperatures, cold wave conditions continued to prevail in the city.

The Delhi police will become the country’s first police force to use a luxury car as a PCR van as 150 such cars are likely to be procured.
Delhi police commissioner B.K. Gupta said that the decision to purchase “fast” cars was triggered by cases like the recent Dhaula Kuan gangrape where prompt action could have saved the victim. “Prompt action needs to be taken on crime alerts. We are procuring these cars to enable the staff to move fast,” he said.

Seeking to downplay the rising incidents of crime against women in the city, Delhi police commissioner, B.K. Gupta said on Thursday that the concept of beat patrolling needs to be reinvented to prevent such incidents in a metropolitan city like Delhi.