In a chilling turn to the “honour killing” of the couple Monica and Kuldeep, a third body, of another woman, was found in a car on Tuesday morning. The body was that of Monica’s cousin, Shobha, who had eloped with a youth from another community and later returned home following family pressure, police sources said.

The Indian Army has agreed to depute some officers of the rank of brigadier and colonel to the Union home ministry to act as military advisers for anti-Naxalite operations and strategy in different states, defence sources confirmed. The Army agreed to this after refusing to depute major-generals as it felt officers of such high rank were not needed for such a job.

In a partial relief to the cellular operators in their dispute with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi on the cellphone towers, the Supreme Court on Tuesday restrained the civic body from encashing the fixed deposits deposited by the operators towards the enhanced fee. However, it refused to grant any interim stay on the enhanced licence fee.

Investigations into the mysterious murder of industrialist Anil Nanda’s driver, Janeshwar Sharma, have revealed that Sharma had received a call from Nanda’s office on the fateful day with a witness claiming that he saw him entering Nanda’s residence with a “bottle-shaped thing wrapped in a newspaper under his armpit”.

The students thronged the Delhi University campus on Tuesday to see whether they have got through in the first cut-off in their choicest colleges. Those not able to make it in the first list have pinned all their hopes on the second cut off list. The admissions will start from Wednesday.

With Delhi reeling under hot and humid conditions and the maximum temperature being recorded at 44.3 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, chief minister Sheila Dikshit directed the private power distribution companies to pull up their socks and ensure uninterrupted power supply.

The Delhi police claimed to have contacted one of the girls who had eloped with a youth from a different caste on Sunday, which triggered the tragic triple murder in the name of “honour” in Ashok Vihar area on Sunday.

The Delhi government’s transport department on Monday announced that the commuters in the capital will have to pay 35 per cent more from Wednesday for travelling in autorickshaws and taxis. The government said all the 55,000 autorickshaws in the city will have to install a global positioning system (GPS) connected to a call centre within six months. The move is aimed at checking overcharging by drivers.

Police sources said on Tuesday that the third person found murdered in Delhi, a woman named Shobha who was a cousin of a woman slain on Sunday in an honour killing, had angered her family a year ago by eloping with a youth from a different community.

The Rashtrapati Bhavan, the official residence of the President of India, may get an ISO: 14001 certification soon as the team of international auditors from Bureau Veritas (BVQI) start audit.