The Delhi Development Authority is trying its best to hand over nearly 3,000 flats at Vasant Kunj, which would provide almost 5,000 rooms to delegates and tourists during the Commonwealth Games-2010, to the Indian Tourist Development Corporation (ITDC) by August 31. Early this week, the group of ministers (GoM) on

An elderly NRI woman was allegedly assaulted by a group of police officers at the behest of a local property dealer in the upscale Defence Colony area in south Delhi on Friday. The police sources said the victim, identified as Dr Manjula Krippendorf, 64, along with her daughter, was allegedly assaulted by the station house officer (SHO) of

Diesel will cost Rs 2.50 less per litre in Delhi as the state government on Friday rolled back VAT on the fuel from the existing 20 per cent to 12.5 per cent.
The decision will help contain inflationary trends and bring relief to the common man, Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit said while announcing the rollback.

As if the withdrawal of world and Olympic sprint king Usain Bolt and a number of top Australian swimmers was not bad enough, Britain’s four-time Olympic gold medal-winning cyclist Chris Hoy will not be seen in action either at the forthcoming 19th Common-wealth Games in Delhi.

Shaken, the BJP and JD(U) began hectic parleys on Friday after the Patna high court ordered a CBI probe into the alleged irregular withdrawal of Rs 11,412.54 crores from the state treasury between 2002-03 and 2007-08 for different welfare and development schemes without making available required bills to the accountant-general of Bihar.

The home ministry is “aware” of the presence of Hindu terror outfits and is looking into such cases. The Centre has written to the Madhya Pradesh government to transfer the probe involving one long-time former RSS pracharak, Sunil Joshi, who was recently murdered, to the CBI. Joshi is alleged to have planted bombs in 2007 at the Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad and the Ajmer Sharif dargah.

Amid claims by Delhi mayor P.R. Sawhney that the MCD works related to the Games will be completed by July 31, there are apprehensions that certain works related to the street-scaping and beautification may be completed only in August.

A man was beaten to death by his neighbour and his associates in the Kapashera area of southwest Delhi on Friday morning.
The police said the accused and his associates are absconding after the incident. The deceased has been identified as Raju, 30. According to a senior police officer, the i

At least 20 pillars on the airport express Metro line needed strengthening as an “abundant precaution”, reveals an RTI reply.
The Delhi Metro had to use over 20 times more steel and over double the concrete used initially in the pillars to give them desired strength. However, no agency was held responsible for the loopholes in the work that cost Rs 6 crores.

In a bizarre case, unidentified thieves managed to escape with Rs 22 lakhs from a cash van on its way to deposit the amount in an ATM in broad daylight at Sector 18 in Noida on Friday. The cash was meant for an ATM of a multi-national bank.