Amid the anxiety over Commonwealth Games projects missing deadlines, there is finally some good news with authorities claiming that the crucial Barapulla Nala elevated road project — which will connect the Games Village with the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium — will be completed in July, nearly a month before the deadline. Earlier, it was feared that the project may finish in mid-September, perilously close to Games.

If you want to take a bite at a mango as small as litchi and as big as a papaya, then head to the 22nd Mango Festival at Dilli Haat, Pitampura where around 400 mango varieties will be on display. Chief minister Sheila Dikshit will inaugurate the festival on Friday.

The Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) on Thursday stated that the private power distribution companies (discoms) are overcharging consumers to the extent of Rs 300 crores per month due to the Delhi government’s direction which put on hold the new power tariff from coming into force. The DERC has confirmed widely-

The Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre of All-India Institute of Medical Sciences has got the go-ahead for a new course dealing with emergency medicine from the Medical Council of India.

Amid high levels of humidity, the peak power demand in the capital reached its highest this season so far on Thursday and was recorded at 4,720 MW. The mercury came below the 40 degree Celsius-mark and several areas experienced light showers towards the evening.

Bike-borne robbers struck in an east Delhi locality on Thursday afternoon by targeting a 66-year-old advocate, who was assaulted and robbed of cash worth lakhs of rupees.

Two months after charges were framed against senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in a case relating to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, a Delhi court on Thursday decided to frame charges against him in another anti-Sikh riots case.

India’s exports rose 35.1 per cent in May to $16.1 billion year-on-year, but the trouble brewing in some European economies may weigh on future demand.
The seventh straight month of rise was registered on a low export base of $ 11.95 billion in May 2009, when shipments had plunged by over 29 per cent from the previous fiscal under the impact of the recession in the US and several other advanced economies.

Food inflation declined by a whopping 3.98 percentage points to 12.92 per cent for the third week of June, as the rate of price rise in cereals and vegetables showed a remarkable drop due to the high base effect.

Anil Ambani group firm Reliance Communications (RCom) will acquire Digicable, the country’s largest cable TV service provider, in an all-stock deal believed to be worth about $1 billion.