In a positive step, the new Delhi University vice-chancellor held a meeting with representatives of the agitating teachers on Thursday to resolve the bitter dispute over the semester system.

The Delhi police’s special cell has busted an international drug racket and seized heroin worth crores of rupees from a former ground staffer of Amritsar airport who has been arrested.

A man, said to be mentally deranged, allegedly killed his two daughters, one of them seven-month-old, before killing himself by jumping before a train in neighbouring Ghaziabad.

If crackers add to the air and noise pollution during Diwali, the largescale adulteration of sweets and the unhygienic conditions under which they are made can simply kill people or be a source of som

The Delhi government is mulling a congestion charge on cars in a bid to check the use of private vehicles and clean up the city’s air.

Will US security personnel and air traffic controllers be present at the air traffic control towers in Delhi and Mumbai when US Air Force One carrying President Barack Obama lands or takes off at these airports?

Officials at Rajghat have said they will not allow securitymen to bring in sniffer dogs to secure the samadhi before US President Barack Obama comes visiting on November 8 morning. They had been used duing former US President George W. Bush’s 2006 visit there, leading to a political storm. That, the samadhi committee officials said, had been a mistake and it would not be repeated.

An alert was sounded after fresh reports of the hacking of sensitive information and restricted operational details from defence ministry computers. Classified information, including minutes of crucial meetings and strategies, have reportedly fallen into Pakistani hands, sources said.

The Delhi Metro services on Friday, the day of Diwali, will stop operating three hours before the usual time of 11 pm.
According to a DMRC spokesperson, the services will stop on all the six lines three hours ahead of the schedule. The last train on Friday will start 8 pm from terminal stations. On Sunday, 33 extra trains would undertake 453 additional trips to cater to the “Bhai Duj” rush.

A day after the probe panel submitted its report on the collapse of the foot overbridge near the J.N. Stadium, the Delhi government has asked the British firm Macalloy, which had supplied the steel frame, to provide details about deficiencies in the design of the structure.