The Enforcement Directorate (ED) will soon start questioning of the alleged hawala operators Mahesh Jain and Alok Jain in connection with its probe into the 2G Spectrum scam.

The Union Cabinet is expected to take up the issue of equity infusion of `1,200 crores from the Government to Air India on Thursday and could also examine a proposal for pay harmonisation and rank rationalisation between employees of the unified national carrier.

In an important ruling on evidentiary value of the dying declaration, the Supreme Court has held that the last minute statement of the murder victim is a solid ground for registering an FIR against the accused person named by the deceased and even sufficient to convict the assailant if all the witnesses have turned hostile in the court of law.

The railways has restored train services between Delhi and Jaipur after the Gujjar protesters cleared from the tracks.
An official statement said that trains which were diverted will now start plying from this section. “Trains which will run in their original route with immediate effect include

The BJP on Wednesday said the Congress is in a habit of putting the blame of its wrong doings on those leaders who are not currently active in politics.
Reacting to the news reports on the book recently released by the Congress commemorating its 125 years of existence, the main Opposition party said even though

A day after West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee replied to home minister P. Chidambaram’s letter objecting to the latter’s reference to “Harmad Vahini” as “armed cadres” allegedly propped up by the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the home ministry clarified that the contentious letter was sent through speed post on December 22.

Despite an apparent “bourgeois trend’’ at the highest level of the party, the CPI(M) in a fresh document on the rectification campaign has blamed “association with bourgeois parties” for “corrosive effect” on its cadres. The document, “Organisational Tasks and Rectification”, went on to claim that the new entrants are “still to acquire the basic outlook of the party and they are yet to be grounded in the class and mass struggles”.

North and central Delhi reeled under water crisis on Wednesday as Delhi Jal Board (DJB) had to shut down Wazirabad and Chandrawal water treatment plants on Tuesday evening after ammonia content substantially jumped in raw water.

Two bike-borne assailants snatched a bag containing cash from a contractor in Rohini on Wednesday.

A woman was attacked with an axe by her husband on Wednesday morning following marital discord over the last six years. The incident took place at around 5 am in Prem Nagar area of Hari Nagar in west Delhi. The victim, Seema, 35, had an argument with her husband Tarun, 38, following which he picked up an axe and attacked her.