The Congress on Friday demanded an explanation from the BJP for the alleged close links that its general secretary Ananth Kumar had with corporate lobbyist Niira Radia during the NDA’s tenure. The BJP has denied the charge and declared that it will initiate legal action against the Congress.

Onion prices dropped further on Friday in Maharashtra and Delhi after the government banned exports and abolished import duty on the commodity to cool down domestic prices.

Tis Hazari court chief metropolitan magistrate (CMM) Vinod Yadav on Friday decided to conduct its own probe into the allegations of two undertrials, one serving a life sentence and another facing trial in a murder case, that they were allegedly being pressurised by the Tihar Jail officials to kill sacked officials of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, who are facing corruption charges.

Gulzar, who attributes his poetry to Mirza Ghalib, feels the legendary poet was a great egotist and enjoyed being different from others.
“He was a great egotist and he knew that and perhaps revelled in it. I think he deserved to have that arrogance. He insisted on writing in Urdu while other poets preferred Persian and Ghalib was proud that he was writing in the language of people,” said Gulzar at the launch of Pavan Kumar Varma’s book Ghalib.

The DDA Housing Scheme 2010 closed on Friday with record number of people having applied for 16,000 flats on offer. “We cant not say how many people have applied for the scheme, as banks are accepting application forms. It will take few days to collect the data,” said DDA spokesperson Nemo Dhar.

Delhi BJP on Friday warned the city government against allowing private schools to hike their fees. The party threatened to launch a stir if the government allowed the private schools to hike fee on the plea of accommodating 25 per cent students from the economically weaker section under the provisions of the Right to Education Act.

A father-son duo was robbed of `80 lakhs in outer Delhi while the family of a retired NCERT official was held hostage by armed robbers.
Ram Kumar Goyal, who runs an estate firm, and his son Kuldeep were going in a Toyota Corolla car when four assailants in a car intercepted them near Rohini (west) Metro Station at 9.30 pm on Thursday.

The Delhi Metro has speeded up its work on Phase-III and has made amendments to the project as suggested by the Delhi government, said DMRC chief E. Sreedharan on the eighth anniversary of Metro operations in Delhi on Friday.

In a bid to stop the screening of the movie 2G Radia-Tion, on the 2G telecom scam and alleged involvement of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia, her PR firm, Vaishnavi Corporate Communic-ations, has decided to send a legal notice to the filmmakers.

The Delhi high court on Thursday ordered veteran Congress leader Narayan Dutt Tiwari, 85, to undergo a DNA test to ascertain the claim by a Delhi-based lawyer, Mr Rohit Shekhar, that he is his biological son.