A survey under the Mission Convergence of the Delhi government has pegged the number of socially vulnerable at eight lakh, while noting that there are about 2,200 households being run by children in the absence of their parents. Delhi government is working on a plan to come up with family development scheme to gauge the impact of various social welfare schemes being run by it.

Thieves struck at a jewellery shop in south Delhi on Tuesday night by digging a four-foot-long tunnel to execute one of the rarest thefts reported from the capital.
The police said the thieves walked inside the drain for about seventy metres and dug a tunnel which led them to the shop in Khanpur. Jewellery worth `10 lakhs is reported missing. Siddharth Prakash, the owner of Rastogi Jewellers On Devli main road said he opened his shop on Wednesday morning and found the tiles on the floor broken.

The markets in the city saw huge crowds on Wednesday as people indulged in shopping that is considered auspicious on the occasion of Dhanteras, two days before Diwali. The stress was on buying precious metals like gold and silver, besides utensils.

The Supreme Court has come down heavily on the National Consumer Commission for handling a medical negligence case of a minor child in a casual manner while the victim whose leg had to be imputed due to alleged wrong treatment 16 years ago had been fighting for the compensation ever since.

In what is being seen as a major catch for the security agencies here, notorious mafia gangster Prem Prakash, alias “Bunty Pandey”, has been nabbed by the Indian agencies in Vietnam with the help of International police (Interpol). A henchman of underworld don Chhota Rajan, Pandey was involved in nearly 50 cases of extortion,

Already a collectors’ item because of its very little power to buy anything in the market, 25-paisa coin is all set to officially become a pride possession of numismatists only. The government is considering to stop minting new 25-paisa coins, as a finance ministry proposal to this effect is high on the agenda of meeting of Union Cabinet scheduled to meet on Thursday.

In a race to win the dalit legacy, UP chief minister Mayawati has beaten BJP’s poster boy and Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi. Both of them were competing to have their respective tableaux during Republic Day parade on the same theme. But the panel of experts, which has been assigned to screen the states’ proposals, decided that Mayawati’s Uttar Pradesh has better claim over Modi’s Gujrat in showcasing Gautam Buddha and his legacy.

In the US, Republicans have not only wrested control of the House of Representatives but also diminished the Democrats’ majority in the Senate. It does not bode well for Barack Obama but it offers a mixed bag of opportunities and challenges for Manmohan Singh, whose term ends only in 2014.
The shift in the balance of power on Capitol Hill will have implications for India’s foreign policy, particularly on contentious issues such as Af-Pak, China, Iran, non-proliferation and climate change.

Ahead of President Barack Obama’s visit here, India on Wednesday said it expects progress on the issue of relaxation of US export control regime on dual-use items. “Yes I do see...We are expecting progress in that field,” India’s ambassador to the US Meera Shankar said here when asked about New Delhi’s expectations on relaxation of US export control laws which prohibit transfer of dual-use items.

A section of the Indian political and diplomatic communities has reacted sharply to Barack Obama’s remarks he made in an interview to Press Trust of India (PTI), in which he held out no assurances on issues such as India’s quest for a permanent membership of the UN Security Council and ending curbs on export of dual-use technology.