The Congress government in the city completed its third year on December 16. Leader of the Opposition in Delhi Assembly Prof. Vijay Kumar Malhotra slammed the Delhi government for its failures on various fronts during its 13 years of rule.

A Delhi government hospital doctor was sent to jail for three years by a city court for demanding and accepting bribe to give a clear autopsy report of a road accident victim.

Delhiites experienced the coldest day of this winter as mercury slipped below five degree Celsius. The chill is expected to persist in the next couple of days.
The minimum was recorded at 4.7 degree Celsius, four notches below normal, while maximum was at 21.7° Celsius, normal for this time of the year and down from Thursday’s 22.2° Celsius.

The badly mutilated body of a security guard working at the Pacific Mall in southwest Delhi was found in Dwarka area on Friday morning.

In a tragic incident, a nine-year-old boy was shot dead when two inebriated persons resorted to indiscriminate celebratory firing at a marriage ceremony in southwest Delhi’s Jafarpur Kalan on Thursday evening.

Tribal women at the national convention on "Empowerment to Tribal Women" at the AICC office in New Delhi on Friday. — PRITAM BANDYOPADHYAY

Food minister K.V. Thomas appears to have won over some of the detractors of the National Food Security Bill, which will be placed before the Union Cabinet on Monday. His two-day firefighting has had mixed success: while the NCP appears

Both Houses of Parliament witnessed a second day of pandemonium on Friday, with the BJP insisting home minister P. Chidam-baram be dismissed for allegedly helping a hotelier, who was once his client, to get FIRs against him

In a significant move the draft Cabinet note prepared by the Cabinet Secretariat on the Lokpal issue advocates a 50 per cent reservation for SCs, STs and OBCs in the proposed nine-member constitutional body. This is largely the outcome of Wednesday’s all-party meeting where representatives of the Samajwadi Party,

Congress president Sonia Gandhi with tribal women during the National Convention on “Empowerment to Tribal Women” at the AICC office in New Delhi on Friday. — PRITAM BANDYOPADHYAY