Unidentified assailants murdered a businessman early on Wednesday morning after holding his wife hostage at their home in Moti Nagar area of west Delhi. Virender Sachdeva, 23, lived in Moti Nagar and ran a shop nearby. According to DCP Ranganathan, on Wednesday morning at around 4 am, Virender’s wife Arti

The Supreme Court on Wednesday took serious view of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) sending a communication to the CBI stating that there was virtually no loss in the sale of 2G spectrum while questioning the probe agency’s estimation of much lower loss to the exchequer when CAG had put it at whooping `1.74 lakh crores.

Delhi lieutenant-governor Tejendra Khanna asserted that Delhi is equipped to tackle any terror threat. He stressed the need for the police to be alert on ground to combat terrorism.

The Supreme Court allowed Janata Party president Subramaniam Swamy to place the crucial documents on record as part of his petition seeking a direction to CBI to investigate the role of P. Chidambaram in “fixing” the 2G price at much lower level.

The Delhi high court on Wednesday directed the government of Delhi and the Centre to enhance the compensation being provided to the victims of the September 7 bomb blast at the Delhi high court.

An Army helicopter performed a daring rescue of stranded persons near Mangan in north Sikkim on Wednesday which saw two Brigadiers on board jump 10 feet to the ground so that the stranded persons could be airlifted to safety, sources said. The Cheetah helicopter belonging to the Army Aviation wing — with two pilots and two Brigadiers on board — was on a flight when it saw a

Tibetans light candles after a prayer meeting in New Delhi on Wednesday in memory of the Sikkim earthquake victims. — G.N. Jha

In joint operations with the Army, security forces busted a network of Maoist which was spreading its link in Dibang Valley of the frontier state of Arunachal Pradesh.

In perhaps the first occurrence of its kind in India, freedom of expression on social network Facebook has led to the suspension from service of two employees of the Bihar government. The punishment meted out to the two award-winning writers has sparked outrage both online and offline.

While sharing public concerns over nuclear safety in the aftermath of the accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, the Centre is quite clear that the logic of generating nuclear power in India has not lost its validity. “Nuclear power remains among the cheapest and cleanest sources of power,” official sources underlined here on Wednesday.