With 2011-12 being the last financial year before the next municipal elections, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi is finding it difficult to do the tightrope between “not burdening the common man” wi

It was a pleasant Sunday for Delhiites as the mercury remained near normal level and a shallow fog gave way to a bright sun.

Delhi ministers led by chief minister Sheila Dikshit pulled up all socks to make the city a perfect host for the Congress plenary session in Burari.

A rickshaw-puller was stabbed by two criminals when he resisted their robbery attempt in Daryaganj area of central Delhi on Saturday evening.

A 22-year-old man was stabbed to death by five assailants in Vijay Vihar area of outer Delhi on Saturday evening.

The brutally battered body of a retired teacher was found at his south Delhi residence on Sunday morning.

Taking the battle into the opposition camp, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said he would be "happy" to appear before the Parliament's Public Accounts Committee in the 2G spectrum issue as he

All-rounder Irfan Pathan is the notable absentee in India’s 30-man preliminary squad for next year’s World Cup.
The squad, announced by the BCCI’s chief selection committee led by Kris Srikkanth on Saturday, is on expected lines with recent performances being given additional weightage.

Undaunted by the controversy over his Karkare remarks, AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh on Saturday launched a frontal attack on the RSS and the BJP by claiming that there was need for a “deeper” probe into the killing of RSS activist Sunil Joshi, who was linked to the Ajmer dargah blast of 2007. He also alleged that Sunil Joshi was murdered by his colleagues as he knew “too much” about the outfit’s activities.

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Saturday suggested that the demolition of the Babri Masjid should be mentioned as a “criminal act” in the draft of the party’s political resolution before the two-day Congress plenary session beginning on Sunday.