Unmindful of the fact that eating and drinking inside Metro station premises, more so in the trains, is not allowed, many passengers utilising the services from Noida, Sector 32 station do not seem to care enough.

Even as the strike by sanitation workers has finally been called off, the MCD seems to be caught in a catch-22 situation on the issue of payment of salaries. While on the one hand, the unions of sanitation workers are sharply divided on political lines, on the other the MCD is facing a cash crunch.

Tripping of transmission line from Wazirpur in north Delhi to Geeta Colony in east Delhi led to continuos powercuts in many south and east Delhi areas on Saturday afternoon.

A gang of undergarment clad robbers looted jewellery and cash worth over Rs 2 lakhs from half-a-dozen houses in Modinagar and Pilkhuwa towns of Ghaziabad on Saturday. So far the police officers have said that the gang committed robberies in the two towns simultaneously after Friday midnight.

With the D-day being less than three months away, the Union tourism ministry is planning to revive the training programme for autorickshaw and taxi drivers ahead of the Commonwealth Games. The programme had run into rough weather with the drivers not turning up at the training venues.

Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit does not want any civic agency to leave Commonwealth Games-related work for the eleventh hour: she has given them 53 days to make the city “absolutely ready” by August 31.

Fissures are developing in the ruling UPA with the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party on Friday announcing a new “Secular Democratic Front” at the state level across the country.

BJP president Nitin Gadkari has done it again! After a profuse spree of apologising for describing Lalu Prasad Yadav and Mulayam Singh Yadav as “dogs... who lick the feet” of the Congress and its chief Sonia Gandhi, he created another flutter Thursday night by describing Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, now on death row, as the “Congress’ son-in-law”.

India and Iran have agreed to increase the number of flights per week. The air services agreement was one of six pacts to be signed on Friday towards the end of the two-day India-Iran joint commission meeting, held here after a gap of 16 months.

Expressing serious concern over the state authorities’ lackadaisical approach towards the protection of child rights, the Supreme Court on Friday ticked the state governments for their apathy on twin issues — children falling in abandoned bore-well with alarming regularity and mismanagement of the orphanages.