Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to go in for a reshuffle of his council of ministers in July. While the government is under considerable pressure to drop communications minister A. Raja of the DMK following the 2G spectrum controversy, his party leader, Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi, is strongly resisting such a move.

The Delhi high court has rapped the MCD for “exploiting” nursing personnel by appointing them to a lower grade post and making them carry out the duties of higher grade staff, saying that it amounted to “ad-hocism”.

Safdarjung hospital has acquired a gamma camera to help detect cancer in the body. The service will be free for BPL families and Central government health scheme card holders.

Taking cognisance of representations received from various trade associations, Delhi finance minister Dr A.K. Walia on Tuesday stated that the city government is committed to provide a trader-friendly Value Added Tax (VAT) mechanism.

Two unidentified bike-borne assailants snatched a bag containing lakhs of cash from two youth in Vivek Vihar area of east Delhi in broad daylight on Tuesday.
The police officials said the incident took place at around 1.45 pm when the victims, identified as Gulshan Chawla, a resident of Jhilmil colony in Vivek Vihar, a

The father and uncle of a 19-year-old girl who tortured her and her boyfriend to death were sent to two days police custody here on Tuesday, with the uncle saying he did not regret the brutal murders. The unrepentant uncle, Om Prakash, said defiantly that he did not regret the death of Asha and Yogesh Kumar, after they insisted on getting married while belonging to different castes.

A 19-year-old girl committed suicide at her west Delhi residence on Monday evening, apparently due to fear of poor performance in examinations.
According to the police, the incident was reported by the authorities of Sanjay Gandhi Memorial hospital where the deceased, identified as Puja, was admitted by her p

Municipal commissioner K.S. Mehra was on Tuesday cornered by the BJP councillors wanting to know how he got the hoardings, which were put up by the party against the alleged failure of the Delhi government to rein in the discoms on the power tariff issue, removed. The BJP councillors were further irked when the commissioner cited a Supreme Court order which said that posters which “hurt the sentiments of an individual or an organisation” should be removed.

The road to the Commonwealth Games in October for India’s paddlers, led by Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal, will begin at the India Open Pro Tour table tennis championship — a test event for the CWG which gets underway here on Wednesday.

India and China are expected to see the highest-ever rise in private equity investments from the new and existing investors over the next two years, a survey by global PE firm Coller Capital said.