The government decided to decontrol petrol prices from Friday midnight and simultaneously raised the prices of key auto and cooking fuels — petrol, diesel, LPG and kerosene. The prices of petrol, diesel and kerosene have been raised by Rs 3.5 per litre, Rs 2 per litre and Rs 3 per litre respectively. An LPG cylinder will now cost an

Inmates of a juvenile home tried to set things afire in a protest against the state of affairs there. They also tried to vandalise the fire tenders. “The inmates of a remand home set cardboard on fire demanding better food and basic amenities. They later threw stones on fire tenders,” a Delhi police official said. The incident occurred in

Even though Hindi is the official language of the Indian Union, the official language for the Supreme Court and high courts in the country as per the mandate under Article 348 of the Constitution of India continues to be English. Recently, while an advocate was granted permission by Justice Rekha Sharma of the Delhi high court to address

Three unidentified assailants abducted a 25-year-old call centre employee in their Maruti 800 car, robbed him of cash and other valuables and later threw him out near ITO on Thursday evening.

The common man in the capital is willing to buy any logic of the powers-that-be on the necessity of hiking the fuel price. Meanwhile, the BJP, which staged a demonstration against the hike, has also planned to carry out “chakka jam” in several areas. “The government will always have its reasons. Those who are rich can pay

A 24-year-old youth went missing under highly mysterious circumstances from Connaught Place on Wednesday evening. The police officials said the victim, identified as Harsh Sharma, had gone for some official work to Connaught Place. “At around 11.15 pm, the victim’s father, identified as Gyan Prakash Sharma, got a ransom call

Amidst slackness in the completion of the Games Village even when the mega sporting events is just 99 days away, Delhi lieutenant governor Tejendra Khanna on Friday set timelines for completion of the village apart from asking officials to speed up the work. As per the timeline fixed by the lieutenant governor, the Games Village

A Delhi court on Friday issued production warrants against the three accused allegedly involved in the sensational honour killings of their relatives last week. Seeking custodial interrogation, the Delhi police has pleaded before the court to issue production warrant against the trio, Mandeep Nagar (23), Ankit Chaudhury (22) and Nakul

The three suspects held in the Ashok Vihar ‘honour’ killings have reportedly told the Ghaziabad police that they were planning to kill another woman who had eloped against her family’s wishes and married a youth from a different community.

Central security agencies have got input about Maoists setting up “action teams’’ to target security forces and politicians. The move by the Maoists is believed to have come after a recent meeting of the CPI(Maoist) central committee where the “action groups’’ set-up were asked to follow their mandate despite civilian lives being lost in such attacks.