In a bizarre incident, a 42-year-old woman was allegedly strangulated by her domestic help, who had been working in her household for over 15 years, early on Thursday. The incident was reported from Sunlight Colony in southeast Delhi.

S.Y. Quraishi on Friday took over as India’s new chief election commissioner (CEC), becoming the first Muslim in the country to occupy the post.

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the Maharashtra government’s plea against the Bombay High Court’s order directing a CBI probe into the death of six people in police firing during the 1992 Mumbai riots.

The government is ready to talk to different Kashmiri groups on the prevailing situation in the Valley as there is no harm “in meeting our own people”, home minister P. Chidambaram said on Friday.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) will take over the probe into the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast, home minister P. Chidambaram announced on Friday while also saying that the government aimed to contain Maoist violence in three years through “security and development” efforts.

Upgradation of colonies within one kilometre of Delhi Metro lines to a higher category, factoring in the city land value and rent value of the properties are some of the measures suggested by the municipal valuation committee (MVC) to augment the property tax receipts of the MCD. The committee’s report was submitted to the standing

The high court on Wednesday asked the Centre to frame guidelines for restructuring of Nafed in order to stop alleged embezzlement of funds by officials.
A division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Manmohan asked the ministry of agriculture to convene a meeting with at least five members of Nafed and the nodal committee, set up following a court order, to frame guidelines and inform the court by next date of hearing.

With just two months left for the Commonwealth Games to begin, the security measures for the mega-sporting event will come under scrutiny by the participating countries whose security heads have reached the city for a review being held on Thursday.

The jury is still out on whether the DDA’s Yamuna Sports Complex (YSC), where archery and table tennis competitions are to be held during the Commonwealth Games 2010, will be completed in time. While official related to the DDA maintained that the work would be completed by the August 31 deadline, Delhi finance minister A.K. Walia expressed serious doubts over the same on Wednesday.

The Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) on Wednesday told a division bench comprising Justices A.K. Sikri and Reva Khetrapal of the Delhi high court that 911 more low-floor buses would be put on the road before the Commonwealth Games to sort out the traffic problem in the city.