Even as the Congress on Wednesday made it clear that its alliance with the Trinamul Congress would continue, insiders fear that the latter would not leave more than 50 Assembly seats to the Congress in the big battle to be fought next year in West Bengal.

The Bengal civic and municipality poll results clearly indicate that the Trinamul Congress will need to strike a grand alliance with the Congress to wrest the state from the Marxists in the forthcoming Assembly elections.

The Delhi high court has said that premises leased out for carrying out specific commercial activities cannot be used for any other purposes.
Turning down the plea of the petitioner Mahesh Chand Goyal, a division bench comprising Justices Vikramjit Sen and A.K. Pathak said, “To permit a person to make a bid

A young pilot, who was declared a proclaimed offender, along with his two relatives, has been arrested by the special cell of the Delhi police on Wednesday on the charges of human trafficking.

The tourism ministry’s plan to teach autorickshaw and taxi drivers the basics in mannerisms and English in the wake of the Common-wealth Games seems to have run out of takers. The ministry maintained that the autorickshaw drivers were not coming forward as a result of which a very less number of such drivers have been trained so far.

The maximum temperature in the city on Wednesday was recorded at 42.8 degrees Celsius, which was nearly two degrees less than Tuesday’s maximum of 44.1 degrees. However, the minimum temperature, recorded at 34.2 degrees Celsius, was up by more than six degrees Celsius over Tuesday’s minimum of 28.2 degrees. It is the highest minimum temperature recorded on June 2 in the last five years. A dust haze hung over the city for the better part of the day.

A DTC bus depot being constructed at Yamuna flood plain, near Akshardham temple, to ferry athletes and officials to and from the Games Village to sports venues has come under the scanner of the Delhi high court.

The caste violence in Haryana, which forced out a group of dalit families from Mirchpur village in Hisar district after their houses were burnt down, took ugly turn on Wednesday when Hisar’s deputy commissioner was attacked and manhandled by angry protesters.

The family of Manchandas based in northwest Delhi’s Shalimar Bagh lost five members in a road accident in Haryana’s Ambala district early on Wednesday.
The accident occurred at around 5 am near Devi Nagar when a minibus lost balance after one its rear tyres got punctured. The bus jumped the road divider and collided w

Students of Vardhman Mahavir Medical College called off the three-day-long hungerstrike after the hospital administration promised to look into their demands at the earliest. The students said that they will continue their silent protest though not disrupting the hospital functioning. The patients in Safdarjung hospital had a tough time in the wake of the strike called by junior doctors, forcing the hospital authorities to close down the out patient departments.