Intending to make Indian cities slum-free, the government on Thursday gave its nod to launch an ambitious low-cost housing scheme — Rajiv Awas Yojana — to benefit 32 million urban poor in 250 cities. Under the scheme, the government proposes to give property right to the owners of the houses and for the purpose the Centre has decided to rope in states and private developers.

A 40-year-old man was mowed down by a Scorpio car in a hit-and-run case in southwest Delhi’s Dabri area on Wednesday evening.

The Indian Army is in the midst of an operation to destroy grenades, artillery shells, rockets and other explosive material that are part of metal scrap at the Inland Container Depot (ICD) at Tughlakabad in the Capital.
The operation is being carried out at the request of the Delhi government.

People have started pouring in to support Baba Ramdev’ satyagraha against corruption and black money with preparations going on full swing at Ramlila Maidan here where the yoga guru will sit on a fast unto death from Saturday.

After overcoming some last moment technical snags, the state public health engineering authorities on Thursday afternoon gave the assurance that the long awaited Narmada river water should reach Ahamadpur near the state capital later in the night.

A Delhi police head constable, who was on his way home on a motorcycle, was mowed down by an unidentified speeding vehicle in Samaipur Badli on Wednesday evening.

The Kerala chief minister, Mr Oommen Chandy, has reached out to the people by announcing a slew of welfare-cum-development priorities for the first 100 days in an obvious effort to spruce up the image of his government that is surviving on a slender majority.

The Delhi police has arrested a 24-year-old management graduate from London University for allegedly cloning the ATM card of a sub-divisional magistrate and withdrawing money from his salary account.

Any pilot, foreign or Indian, who acquires his or her pilot licence abroad will soon have to undergo a “skill test” for “conversion to an Indian licence”, rules to be declared soon by the DGCA state. The proposed rules also state, “The DGCA will, before converting any foreign licence to Indian licence, verify the authenticity of the foreign

The MCD has told the Delhi high court that there were no ghost employees on its payroll and accused the media of raising a non-existent scam.