Congress MP Rahul Gandhi finally broke his silence over FDI in retail sector and came out in its support. He said that the Opposition, which was opposing the same, was anti-farmer.

The Congress party on Friday showed off its support base among tribal women at an impressive rally ahead of the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and other states. Party supremo Sonia Gandhi said the government is working on a law which can develop mineral wealth to benefit tribals.

Britain on Friday mour-ned the death of English-American author and journalist Christopher Hitch-ens, who passed away after losing his long battle with cancer. Sixty-two-year-old Hitchens died in Houston of pneumonia, a complication of cancer of the oesophagus, Vanity Fair magazine said.

A city court sent a junior engineer of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to jail for four years for possessing disproportionate assets and also convicted his wife for abetting the crime.

At least 60 volunteers from different reputed organisations will help the illiterate Tihar inmates learn basic reading and writing skills.
The volunteers include housewives, students, retired professors, doctors, engineers, chartered accountants and employees with MNCs.

Senior BJP leader and former finance minister Yashwant Sinha has become the latest victim of harassment on cyberspace as it has turned out that he has been receiving hate mail from the last two months.

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.