A family of five, including an eight-month-old boy, were drugged and cash and jewellery worth lakhs was allegedly looted from their north Delhi residence on Thursday night.

An order which could justify and reinforce the faith of parents’ in the Right to Education (RTE), additional sessions judge Kamini Lau of the Rohini court in an order has said that no child should be deprived of right to education just because the father is in judicial custody.

The Delhi police’s special cell on Friday arrested a 60-year-old man for allegedly helping an ISI agent in acquiring an Indian passport. The accused Nafees Ahmad, a resident of Lucknow, was also carrying a reward of Rs 25, 000 on his head.

In yet another case of snatching, a Netherlands embassy official on Friday became a victim of snatchers after two unidentified motorcycle-borne men snatched her gold chain on gunpoint in east Delhi.

Brace yourself for more trouble on the road and noise during the night as the civic agencies have been asked to go hammer and tongs on a 24x7 basis to finish various Games-related projects by the August 31 deadline. Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday asked all the agencies to begin working through the night to finish the

In a move that will speed up disbursal of refunds to taxpayers, the income-tax department for the first time will accept all TDS credit and refund claims not exceeding Rs 3 lakhs and Rs 25,000 respectively at the stage of processing of the returns.

US AfPak special envoy Richard Holbrooke, who met foreign secretary Nirupama Rao here Thursday, said clearly the situation in Afghanistan cannot be stabilised without Pakistan’s involvement.

A full-blown turf war has erupted on Raisina Hill here with the Union home ministry taking issue with the external affairs ministry on Thursday for distorting the controversy over the recent talks with Pakistan.

The report of the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India, which found discrepancies of over Rs 11,000 crores by the Bihar government, had stated the expenses incurred were “not in tune with the spirit of formation of contingency funds ... provided (under) the Constitution.”

As a clerical error threatened to ruin her dream of studying economics at St. Stephen’s College of Delhi University, Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw has given a ray of hope to Jalnidh Kaur by directing the college not to fill up a seat in case it falls vacant till the next date of hearing. The court has also sought a response from the DU and St.