The Enforcement Directorate on Monday questioned a former CWG Organising Committee high official for six hours even as the Lok Sabha saw the Opposition demanding a joint parliamentary committee to probe the allegations of corruption in the Commonwealth Games. The government said the irregularities would be inquired into “exhaustively” and the corrupt pursued till the “ends of the earth”.

A 44-year-old man was arrested after he was found to be in possession of a country-made revolver while trying to enter the Metro station at Tilak Nagar in west Delhi on Sunday night.

The future was dark for five-year-old girl Bipasha when she was abandoned by her unwed mother, but it seems that there was a ray of hope for her, as a Spanish couple has recently approached the Missionaries of Charity for her adoption and filed a case of adoption in a Delhi court.

Dismissing the plea of Salman, a suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorist allegedly being involved in the Delhi serial blasts in 2008, additional sessions judge (ASJ) of the Tis Hazari district court Santosh Snehi Mann said the accused was not a juvenile and thereby his appeal was not maintainable.

An eatery owner was shot dead and two other persons sustained gunshot injuries when unidentified persons opened indiscriminate fire at an eatery in Adarsh Nagar area of northwest Delhi around Sunday midnight. The police suspect that the incident was a result of rivalry between the members of two gangs.

The daughter-in-law of a 62-year-old woman, who was found dead in her house at Hauz Khas in south Delhi on August 7, has been arrested by the police in this connection. The 28-year-old accused had allegedly bludgeoned the victim to death with an iron musli, used for crushing spices in homes. She was apparently angry at

Criticising the Delhi police for its “lack of professionalism,” the Delhi high court on Monday has said that the registration of FIRs has been made a profitable business by some of its erring police officials.

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi seems to be in a fix over how to control the spread of dengue. With digging on roads continuing and construction debris still lying on the roads, municipal officials say it will be tough to control the spread of the disease if the situation did not change.

The government has stepped up its efforts to upgrade its communication set-up in the insurgency-affected and inaccessible parts of the Northeast. To widen the reach of national broadcasters Doordarshan and All India Radio, Union information and broadcasting ministry has decided to upgrade their infrastructure in the Northeast with a provision for approximately Rs 71 crore budget in the first phase.

A London-based lawyer on Monday got a sigh of relief from the Delhi high court, which has said that a partner in a live-in relationship can walk out of it at any point of time without any legal consequence and neither of the partners can complain of infidelity if one ditches the other.