The Supreme Court, which found the provisions of the new Domestic Violence Act grossly “inadequate” to deal with the problems of women in “live-in” relationships, relied heavily on the case of famous Hollywood actor Lee Marvin which had laid the foundation for grant of maintenance to women in such liaisons all over the world.

The pre-Diwali festive shopping fever appears to have finally caught up with Delhiites. All major market places in the capital reported huge turnout of shoppers on Saturday leading to traffic jam in surrounding areas. With Diwali just a fortnight away, shopkeepers too look all geared up to cash in on the shopping frenzy.

The Delhi high court has pulled up a woman for harassing her elderly in-laws in a dowry case in India even though she is a US citizen and the alleged offence, if any, was supposedly committed there.

Even though the Delhi government is to take a view on the fate of the Blueline buses on Monday, a number of them hit the roads in the city on Saturday. The Blueline buses were barred from plying on the city roads during Games and were further directed to stay away till October 25 when the city government would have taken a decision.

While sustained investigations are going on into the alleged Common-wealth Games financial irregularities, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on Saturday claimed that it has not received any fresh complaints from the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) regarding alleged irregularities in the Commonwealth Games since the mega event ended.

Giving false evidence in a court proved costly for a man, as the Tis Hazari Court chief metropolitan magistrate (CMM) Vinod Yadav on Saturday sentenced him to two years’ rigorous imprisonment for his act.

The legal dragnet seems to be tightening on senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar as a city Court on Saturday paved the way for initiation of criminal proceedings against him in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case in Nangloi area here.

The Congress is planning to hold the party plenary in Rajasthan in the third week of December. This was indicated by the party here on Saturday night. Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot has already requested the high command to hold the plenary in Jaipur. Earlier, the Congress plenary was held there in 1966.

EVEN AS winter is knocking on the doors of the spruced up capital post-CWG, the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week at Pragati Maidan geared up on a balmy Saturday afternoon to welcome distant spring with a riot of colours as Hyderabad-based Anand Kabra opened the week paying a stunning homage to his beloved city, with

A minor convict had to spend more than 13 years in jail for no fault of his. The misfortune befell him as the amicus curiae appointed by the court to defend him failed to bring to the judge’s notice that he was a minor when he had murdered a man in 1996.