Former Haryana DGP S.P.S. Rathore, serving a 18-month sentence in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, was granted bail by the Supreme Court Thursday after the CBI virtually decided to close its investigation in all three fresh cases against him.

The government on Thursday rejected outright the Opposition’s demand for a JPC inquiry into the 2G spectrum scam while the Congress leadership is understood to have asked its DMK coalition ally to replace controversial minister A. Raja with Ms Kanimozhi, Rajya Sabha MP and daughter of Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi, in the Union Cabinet.

As the UPA government seems wary about taking any immediate action against beleaguered communications minister A. Raja, under fire over the 2G spectrum auction controversy, the department of telecom filed an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court on Thursday to defend every action taken by its minister in the process of allocating unified access service licences for 2G spectrum in 2007.

Within hours after taking charge, Delhi’s new police commissioner B.K. Gupta has ordered setting up of “women reception desk” at all 185 police stations across the city for addressing complaints made by women.

The Delhi BJP has once again demanded the resignation of Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit holding her responsible for various delays and alleged corruption in the Commonwealth Games. The state unit has argued that Ms Dikshit should follow suit after the Congress accepted resignations of former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan in connection with Adarsh Society scam and also Suresh Kalmadi, the chairman of the Organising Committee of the Games.

The Delhi Development Authority has hired more than 100 ex-servicemen to take care of various items lying in the Commonwealth Games Village, besides the state-of-the-art sports complex. The external security of the entire Village complex is being taken care of by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).

A 22-year-old youth and his girlfriend are lying in a critical state at Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital after they consumed poisonous material in the Bhajanpura area on Thursday morning after their families refused to accept their marriage proposal.

A 21-year-old Delhi University (DU) student was crushed to death by the “killer” Blueline bus on Thursday afternoon in the northeast Delhi’s Bhajanpura area.
The police said the victim was crushed to death by one of two Blueline buses that were racing with each other. The incident took place when the deceased, identified as

The family members of a Delhi university student, who was gangraped in east Delhi’s Mandawali area after being abducted, have told the police that the four accused allegedly threatened to kill the girl after she revealed the incident to her mother.

A dismissed sub-inspector of the Delhi police has been arrested in the west Delhi for allegedly killing his domestic help in June. The accused was angry over the fact that the domestic help, who had been working with him for the past 15 to 20 years, had become friendly with his wife.