Delhi revenue minister A.K. Walia on Wednesday said that he would take up the issue of hike in Haj quota for the city with the Central government.
Dr Walia on Wednesday undertook a draw of lots to select 719 aspirants for Haj pilgrimage out of 6,889 applicants. Delhi power minister Haroon Yusuf was also present on the occasion.

The wildlife park managers in Madhya Pradesh are facing anger and stiff resistance from the villagers residing in the buffer areas in close proximity of national parks and sanctuaries because of the delay which is inbuilt in the system when it comes to disbursement of compensation for crop damage caused by wild animals. This issue

Is it the shock effect of the poll drubbing? In an “upside down world”, the Marxist party is really in a quandary over choosing a leader of the Opposition in West Bengal Assembly. With all the bigwigs, including party two politburo members Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Nirupam Sen, losing the election, the CPI(M) mandarins are left with only one option: to choose between party central committee member Suryakanta Mishra and state committee member Abdur Rezzak Mollah.

A 13-year-old girl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan at her Mahipalpur residence in south Delhi on Wednesday afternoon.
The police said the incident took place at L-block in Mahipalpur Extension where the victim lived with her brother, Ajay Pandey and sister-in-law Shashi. Ajay works in a leading software company as technical support engineer.

With Bihar’s cooperatives minister Ramanand Singh of the BJP battling charges of being an absconder from the courts for the past 16 years, the main Opposition party RJD’s growing clamour has turned the issue politically embarrassing for the Nitish Kumar government.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice of the Delhi high court Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna on Wednesday refused to stay the declaration of results of AIEEE exam which was mired in controversy following leakage of the question paper.

The impeachment inquiry committee set up by Rajya Sabha chairman Hamid Ansari to inquire corruption charges against Sikkim high court Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran on Wednesday defended in the Supreme Court its decision rejecting his plea for removal of senior advocate P.P. Rao from the probe panel on the allegation of bias.

The west Delhi police has arrested three aides of an extortionist lodged in Tihar jail for his involvement in a number of heinous crimes.
The police said the accused, identified as Akbar Khan, 28, Aftab Khan, 32, and Neeraj Gupta, 33, are part of a gang leg by Mohd Khalil, also known as “Godfather”.

The Thar desert is set to become the hub for solar projects which are expected to generate upto 2,100 gigawatts of solar power. Already 35,000-km land has been set aside for both PV and thermal solar farms which are being set up by small firms with plant sizes of as little as five MW.

The crime branch has arrested three persons in the city for allegedly running an inter-state drug trafficking racket.
The police said the gang leader, Sagar, 19, used to fly to Kolkata to strike deal for ganja. “Sagar was arrested with his associates Sanjay, 26, and Tejvir Singh, 22, from Outer Ring Road. We recovered 137 kg of ganja worth `7 lakhs from their possession,” DCP (crime) Ashok Chand said.