With the city still awaiting its first monsoon shower this season, high levels of humidity made life uncomfortable for Delhiites on Saturday. The monsoon may finally hit the city some time next week.

The Delhi BJP and its ally, the Janata Dal (United), have geared up to make the “Bharat Bandh” call to protest against the hike in petrol and LPG prices a success in the city on Monday next.

The drive of the Delhi government’s tourism department to register tour operators and travel agents before the Commonwealth Games to ensure hassle-free stay and travel for the tourists has again been extended till September 30. The earlier deadline was June 30, which in turn had been extended from the previous deadline of March 29. The drive was initiated on January 28.

A 40-year-old factory owner was bludgeoned to death by unidentified assailants in an ashram in Mukherjee Nagar area of north Delhi early on Saturday.
Police officials said the body of the deceased, identified as Vinay Kumar, a resident of Dheerpur village, was found at Baba Ramdas Ashram on Dheerpur road in Mukherjee Nagar area by the inmates of the ashram who immediately made a PCR call at around 6.30 am on Saturday.

City mayor P.R. Sawhney has reportedly asked the municipal commissioner to devise a way for ensuring that there is only one union of sanitation workers. At present there are over a dozen unions which generally tow the line of the political party to which they are affiliated.

The members of the khap panchayat in Sikanderpur Kakod village of Ghaziabad, from where a same-gotra couple were asked to leave or face consequences, have been warned by the district administration to not take law into their hands.

Unidentified robbers broke into the residence of a Congress MP in the high-security New Delhi area early on Saturday and decamped with cash and jewellery worth lakhs of rupees, the police said.

A city court on Saturday rejected the bail plea of Yasir Altaf, accused of raping two Dutch women while posing as tourist guide. The accused had on Friday argued that he had “consensual” relations with the complainant and was being falsely implicated in the case.

Jagdish Kaur, a key witness in the Delhi Cantonment riots case of 1984 in which Congress leader Sajjan Kumar is facing prosecution, on Saturday identified the leader as the man who instigated the mob on the day of the incident. The woman had lost five members of her family, including her husband, in the incident.

The Congress and NCP on Friday tried to scotch rumours that agriculture, food and consumer affairs minister Sharad Pawar’s wings would be clipped in a Cabinet reshuffle after he took over as ICC presi