In a third such incident of its kind, a Spanish national was allegedly robbed by bike-borne assailants in Mandir Marg area in the heart of the national capital on Monday evening.

In what was a mere formality, veteran Congress leader Tarun Gogoi was unanimously elected as leader of the Assam Pradesh Congress Legislature Party for the third consecutive term on Tuesday.

Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly, Prof. V. K. Malhotra, criticised the city government for unabated power cuts and shortage of water in the capital.
“Irrespective of the promises of chief minister Sheila Dikshit the situation in the capital remains grim. People are facing acute shortages of water and electricity,” Prof. Malhotra said in a statement.

Even before the defeat of the party at the hustings could sink in, a blame game seems to have begun in the DMK camp. According to sources, many in the DMK are of the view that former telecom minister A. Raja and Rajya Sabha MP and party chief M. Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi are responsible for the debacle as they disgraced the party in the 2G spectrum scam.

Karnataka governor H.R. Bhardwaj’s pitch for imposing President’s Rule in the state has found no takers in the Manmohan Singh government.
There appears little likelihood of President Pratibha Patil being swayed by Mr Bhardwaj’s logic that the government of chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa should be

The crime branch has arrested two Indian Railway employees for running a fake railway recruitment scam and cheating hundreds of aspiring candidates in the city.
The accused have been identified as Om Pal Singh, 38, a helper in Northern Railways and Sandeep Kumar, 37, a staff welfare inspector in Indian Railway Conference Association here, the police said.

The Central Bureau of Investigation has opposed the bail application of sacked Commonwealth Games (CWG) Organising Committee (OC) chief Suresh Kalmadi and submitted before a Special CBI court that his conduct has tarnished the image of the country. Kalmadi was arrested by the CBI along with OC joint director general (Sport)

The south district police claimed to have gained several leads into the gruesome murder of engineering student Shobhit Modi with the investigators deciding to “re-question” at least nine suspects.

A day after the outlawed CPI (Maoist) members gunned down five people at a wedding ceremony in Jharkhand’s Gumla district, the rival People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) members shot dead four brothers in cold blood in a swift retaliation late on Sunday night.

The CBI conducted searches at more than ten places in Delhi in connection with irregularities committed in the construction of Barapulla elevated road project, which was constructed for the Commonwealth Games.