Metro commuters in the national capital had a harrowing time when a train stopped near a station due to a technical fault at about 11.30 am, disrupting Metro services for nearly two hours on Tuesday, Raksha Bandhan day.

The Delhi government on Tuesday in an appeal asked citizens to get their houses whitewash ahead of Commonwealth Games. The government, apprehensive of people’s disenchantment with the Games due to controversies surrounding it, also asked them to celebrate the event as a festival, as urged by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Corruption in lower judiciary has been exposed with a metropolitan magistrate (MM) of the Rohini district court, Gautam Kant Nimaan, being charged with corruption and his services being terminated by the Delhi government following consultation with the Delhi high court Chief Justice Dipak Misra.

A three-year-old Delhi boy was murdered and his body dumped in Aligarh by two young men of northeast Delhi after the deceased’s father failed to meet their Rs 10 lakhs ransom demand, the police said.

Police personnel were deployed at the Metro stations to control the rush of passengers when a train stopped ahead of the Rajiv Chowk Metro Station due to a technical fault. Entry into stations like Rajiv Chowk and Kashmere Gate was restricted. At Rajiv Chowk, guards did not allow people alighting from Line 3 (Dwarka Sec. 9-Noida City Centre) to go to the underground platform.

With people criss-crossing the city for Raksha Bandhan rituals, the capital witnessed traffic congestion on various stretches on Tuesday. The worst affected was the 15-km stretch from ISBT (Kashmere Gate) to Shastri Park, extending up to Apsara border, with commuters forced to deal with bumper-to-bumper traffic for well over five

With less than 40 days remaining for the Commonwealth Games, the public works department is yet to complete at least 14 out of the 34 projects it had undertaken for the event. Besides the crucial project of Barapulla Nullah elevated road project, others still pending completion pertain to street-lighting and street-scaping on PWD roads.

The flood threat has forced stoppage of work at the Commonwealth Games Village. Rising Yamuna water level has forced the Delhi government to ask civic agencies to stop work at the Commonwealth Games Village near Akshardham.

The Yamuna water level continued to remain above the danger mark and with more water released from Haryana it is likely to rise further. The water has also reportedly entered the outer periphery of Nigambodh ghat.

The Election Commission of India on Tuesday flatly denied any role in the arrest of Hari Prasad for allegedly stealing an electronic voting machine (EVM) from a godown in South Mumbai. Hari Prasad, a technical coordinator of VeTA (Citizens for Verifiability, Transparency and Accountability in Elections), has been in the fore-front of a campaign to prove the theory that electronic voting machines can be tampered with.