Leader of the Opposition in the MCD, Jai Kishan Sharma, on Tuesday accused standing committee chairman Y.K. Chandolia of infringing on the rights of the standing committee by outrightly rejecting the proposed five per cent hike in property tax rates proposed by the municipal commissioner during his Budget speech without a discussion. However, he also supported reducing the number of meetings of the standing committee to save lakhs of rupees of the MCD.

The Delhi police has arrested a youth along with his four friends for the murder of a territorial manager of a private telecom company, whose charred body and motorcycle was found in a south Delhi market on Saturday morning.

Union home minister P. Chidambaram on Tuesday said that I would request the people of Delhi to support their police force. The policing in Delhi has improved tremendously over the years and one should not go by specific cases and impressions and rather see things in totality, he added.

A 40-year-old MCD employee succumbed to her injuries after being hit by a train on Shahdara railway station on Tuesday evening.
The police said the incident took place when the deceased was trying to board a train. A GRP official said that the deceased has been identified as Premwati, a gardener

The capital woke up to the coldest season of the day so far on Tuesday with the minimum plummeting by nearly five degrees since Monday to 3.7ºCelsius and the maximum temperature not going beyond 12.7ºCelsius, a drop of 2ºCelsius since Monday.

Five of a family died due to asphyxiation when a fire broke out in a house in Ghaziabad early Tuesday morning.
The family of a fruit seller, including his wife and three children were sleeping, when the fire broke out apparently due to short circuit.

A 24-year-old man committed suicide after stabbing his wife at his Gazipur residence in east Delhi on Tuesday.
The police said that a scuffle occurred between the deceased, Nadeem, and his wife Iram, 22. The couple had got married eight months back but they were not having a

A CBI court in Ghaziabad on Monday rejected the application of Dr Rajesh Talwar and his wife, Nupur Talwar, the parents of murdered teenager Aarushi Talwar, seeking permission to oppose the CBI’s move to file a closure report in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case, saying their plea was “not maintainable” at this stage. The court also questioned the CBI about the “hurry” it had shown in filing the closure report.

The Income-Tax Appellate Tribunal has held that the Indian agent of Swedish arms manufacturer A.B. Bofors, the late Win Chadha, and Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi had received at least three per cent commission from the arms company in the `1,437-crore Bofors gun deal and directed the tax authorities to investigate the matter afresh to asses the income of Chadha during the relevant period.

The parents of children seeking nursery admission are bring forced to buy prospectus by the private schools along with the admission form in the city. Despite repeated complaints by parents over the past so many years, the government has not taken any step to check this malpractice.