The private schools in the capital have indicated that they will raise the fees to compensate the financial burden in the wake of reserving seats for the Economically Weaker Section students.

The Delhi Metro has inducted two six-coach trains on the crowded Noida Line to ease the rush. The trains began their maiden journey at 9.30 pm Thursday from the Yamuna Bank Station. The passengers can heave a sigh of relief as the trains used to be overcrowded during peak hours.

Two management students were killed while three others, including two girls, suffered critical injuries as a Maruti Suzuki SX4 was hit by an unidentified vehicle in Ghazipur area of east Delhi on Thursday night.

At least a dozen BPO employees, including a woman, were injured when the bus they were travelling in fell off the DND flyway in Noida on Thursday evening.
The incident occurred at around 7.15 pm when a bus carrying 20 employees of a BPO, skidded off the main carriageway, broke through the railing and fell off.

The MCD on Thursday carried its encroachment removal, sealing and demolition drive in various areas of the capital. In Karol Bagh, it got cleared at least 2,500 square metre of MCD land by removing the cars and motorcycles illegally parked in the second hand automobile markets on Arya Samaj Road and nearby areas.

Even as the city government initiated sale of onions through 400 outlets at the rate of `40 per kg, the retail prices remained at `60 per kg and above in city markets. Tomatoes were sold in retail around `35 per kg and above in markets. Items like garlic and green chilly were perched at well over `100 a kg.

A 23-year-old call centre executive jumped to death from a flyover on Thursday morning, hours after she had returned from her Noida office.
The victim, identified as Deepti, a resident of Paschim Vihar, sent her brother a text message saying “sorry” for taking the extreme step. She parked her car on the Moti Nagar flyover before jumping at around 7.15 am.

The annual mega literary extravaganza in Jaipur is set to celebrate its sixth edition in January 2011 in the company of Nobel laureates J.M.

Former Telecom Minister A.Raja today appeared before the CBI for questioning in the Rs 22,000 crore 2G spectrum scam, over a year after the agency registered a case in this connection.

The CBI on Wednesday summoned Mr P.K. Srivastava, personal secretary to Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi, to its headquarters for the second time. The CBI also, for the first time, questioned OC director-general V.K. Verma, a close aide of Mr Kalmadi, on Wednesday. According to