IAS officer Ravi Inder Singh, who was allegedly indulging in corporate espionage by leaking information to telecom companies and seeking sexual favours and money in return, was arrested late Tuesday night. The Delhi police has registered a case against him under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

Even before the Karnataka crisis can die down, the BJP has been hit by another crisis in Uttarakhand. Top Uttarakhand saffron leaders and functionaries are now demanding the immediate removal of chief minister Ramesh Pokhriya Nishank, who is mired in a spate of scandals.

A 31-year-old inmate allegedly committed suicide in Tihar Jail.
The son of a municipal councillor, who was lodged in Tihar Jail for the past 18 months in connection with the cases of burglary and theft, allegedly committed suicide by hanging from a ceiling fan on Monday, with his family members alleging foulplay in the case.

Saying that women of forward castes cannot claim Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe status after getting married to men belonging to either of the two communities, the Delhi high court has upheld an order of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) rejecting the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan’s decision to dismiss from service a woman recruited under the reserved quota for the STs.

More than 1,700 headmasters working under various Municipal Corporation Delhi (MCD) schools in the city have a good reason to cheer as a division bench of the Delhi high court on Tuesday asked the state government to increase the retirement age of government school headmasters by two years from 60 to 62 like those of teachers.

The Delhi government on Tuesday clarified that the Centre has not rejected the proposal of the salary hike of the city MLAs and ministers and in place has raised certain queries.

The MCD on Tuesday sealed three guesthouses in the Paharganj area. The civic body had already sent notices to more than 20 guesthouses in connection with non-payment of conversion and parking charges.

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Tuesday was conferred an honorary doctorate by Jamia Millia University here.
Delivering his first lecture after being awarded honorary degree following the clearance given by the ministry of external affairs, the Dalai Lama hailed Islam as a great religion.

Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit, while asserting that her government is ready to extend all possible help to any probe agency, pegged Commonwealth Games expenditure to `3,753 crores by stating that 25 projects were directly linked to the just concluded sporting events. She further stated that there were about 50 projects

The six-day Winter Session of the Delhi Assembly kicked off on a stormy note on Tuesday, with the Congress-led government moving a resolution to expel all the BJP MLAs who raised demands for “House Committee” to go into the alleged financial irregularities in the just concluded Commonwealth Games.