The Parliament gherao by hundreds of farmers led by the RLD chief Ajit Singh on Thursday saw leaders of both the Left and the right, the BJP, coming together to champion the cause of the agitating farmers. All the leaders cutting across the party lines demand from the government to bring a new law on land acquisition.

India said on Friday it was hopeful the makers of the BlackBerry smartphone would come up with a solution to security worries and avert a threatened shut-down of the firm's services next week.

Two persons, including a juvenile, have been arrested by the police in connection with the murder of a woman in Shalimar Bagh area of northwest Delhi on July 16.
The police arrested Arjun Pandit, 22, and a juvenile for murdering Anita Gupta, a resident of AN Block in Shalimar Bagh.

In the wake of terror threat to British athletes, a team of the British Metropolitan Police, popularly known as the Scotland Yard, is likely to arrive in September first week to review the security arrangements for British athletes participating in the Commonwealth Games. The team will hold meetings with the Delhi police. The athletes will arrive on September 15 and the team will remain with them through the event.

Six unidentified bike-borne assailants stabbed to death a HP petrol pump employee and injured three others in northwest Delhi’s Saraswati Vihar area on Wednesday night when they were asked to pay for the petrol.

Farmers protesting against acquisition of their land for developmental projects and demanding higher compensation laid siege to the capital on Thursday in thousands. They gathered at Rajghat and walked to Ramlila Maidan from where they came to Jantar Mantar where they held a demonstration. The procession disrupted normal traffic in and around Parliament Street area in New Delhi and in the Central Delhi areas

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Indian Olympic Association and Hockey India to select and field the men's and women's hockey teams for the Commonwealth Games to be held in October.

India's leading vehicle maker Tata Motors said on Friday another of its ultra-cheap Nano cars had caught fire and that the company was investigating the incident.

The government on Friday said the telecom operators, who had bagged 3G spectrum in the auction held recently, would be allocated airwaves from September 1, paving way for launch of high-speed mobile b

The government will release the revised consolidated FDI policy paper, a ready reckoner on foreign investment related regulations for overseas investors, on September 30.