Differences between Delhi finance minister A.K. Walia and chief minister Sheila Dikshit over the latter allegedly promoting her MP son Sandeep Dikshit now threatens to derail a Commonwealth Games “branding” campaign, with the Games just over two months away.

IT WAS one of the most spectacular finishes as Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla took the stage to make the climax of Delhi Couture Week an affair to remember.

With the deadlines for the Games getting pushed since March, Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit had earmarked areas for ministers to oversee that the works were completed on time. Later, the PWD officials were told that the officers would be held responsible for delays in projects. And now, the contractors have been told that the buck, in all probability, would stop at their door step.

Observing that it is the only husband’s who are liable to provide the wife’s maintenance and not the in-laws, a Delhi court has ruled that women cannot claim a pie of their in-laws’ property.

The Delhi police on Monday arrested two of its serving policemen from the Delhi University Metro station area for allegedly demanding extortion money from a scrap dealer at around 2.15 pm. Cases of extortion and abduction have been registered against the accused policemen Anil and Hitler Singh. While Anil is serving in Delhi police’s 1st Battalion, Mr Singh works with the northwest district of the Delhi police.

Against the MCD’s demand to grant Rs 3,533 crores, the Delhi government on Monday released Rs 1,500 crores to the agency, keeping in view its financial situation.
The decision to release the funds came after a delegation led by mayor P.R. Sawhney called on Delhi finance minister A.K. Walia. The delegation, which also comprised c

The Delhi Cabinet on Monday extended the subsidy on electricity provided to domestic and agricultural consumers till March 31 next year, a decision that will benefit two million people and cost the state exchequer Rs 143.07 crores.

Four labourers were killed and four others, including a woman, suffered critical injuries when a speeding car ran over them in south Delhi when they were engaged in road repair work on Monday morning.

A meeting of at least 30 khaps (caste councils) here on Monday decided that marriages within the same gotra and same villages could not be allowed as they violated the centuries-old tradition. The khaps also demanded amendment in the Hindu Marriage Act banning such marriages. In case, the government does not do the needful, a meeting of shorabh (“supreme court” of khaps) would be held at Muzzaffar Nagar in Uttar Pradesh to decide on a “do or die” plan of action.

The Union law and justice ministry has received the opinion of Attorney General of India G.E. Vahanvati on curative petition in the Bhopal gas tragedy case. The A-G has suggested that there is legal scope for review of the 1996 verdict of the Supreme Court diluting charges against Union Carbide India Limited officials. The SC verdict had watered down the charges against the accused from that of culpable homicide not amounting to murder to criminal negligence.