For the second time in two weeks Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday referred a politically contentious issue to a Group of Ministers for further deliberations — this time on strengthening existing laws to check the growing menace of “honour killings”.

The possibility of the involvement of separatists in masterminding violence in the Kashmir Valley has become somewhat evident following the interception of a conversation between two senior office-bearers of the hardline faction of the Hurriyat Conference headed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani.

Women in the capital of Delhi feel unsafe at all time and in all places, says a study conducted by the Delhi government’s department of women and child development along with some NGO’s.

A 27-year-old newly married pregnant woman died under mysterious circumstances in Krishna Nagar area on Wednesday night.
The family members of deceased have alleged that she was ill-treated by her in-laws and harassed for dowry. A case has been registered with Krishna Nagar police station and an SDM inquiry has been ordered into the incident.

Faced with the prospects of being thrashed for the second time by a teacher, a Class 6 student of Mother Teresa school in east Delhi allegedly attempted to commit suicide by jumping from the second floor of school building on Thursday morning.

A Delhi court on Thursday awarded the death sentence to the domestic help of an elderly woman for murdering her and her 12-year-old grandson in 2007 in the Vasant Kunj neighbourhood of south Delhi.

The first burst of monsoon has made the civic agencies re-think about their tall claims of finishing the Commonwealth Games-2010 related projects by July 15. The new deadline has been pushed further by a fortnight. A visit to the trans-Yamuna areas by two Delhi government ministers — A.K. Walia and Arvinder Singh Lovely — revealed that a lot of work on street-scaping and removing the construction debris was to be done.

The Armed Forces Tribunal on Thursday dismissed a review petition filed by former Army officer Col. H.S. Kohli that sought his re-instatement in service. Col. Kohli was earlier dismissed from the Army for the “ketchup” fake kills episode. In August, 2003, officers of the 175 Field Regiment (under the 57 Mountain Division) posted in

The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the petition of a British scribe for transfer of her rape case from the Rajasthan high court to Delhi, but directed the state government to give her police protection when she visits the state for court hearing.

Soon Indian government will be better prepared to counter the Pakistan sponsored mis-information campaign being spread in the insurgency-hit Jammu and Kashmir region. Union information and broadcasting ministry has decided to launch an ambitious Rs 100 crores scheme for establishing high-power television and radio