Two persons died of asphyxiation after inhaling poisonous gases emanating from a sewer at Jangpura in southeast Delhi area on Monday afternoon.

Suspecting him of having illicit relationship with his wife, a man allegedly stabbed his younger brother to death in west Delhi’s Moti Nagar area.

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday launched the Cluster-2 buses by flagging-off 50 non-AC buses.

Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the annual India International Trade Fair (IITF) at Pragati Maidan here on Monday. He said that Indian exports have performed well this year, but expressed the fear that they may be hit if the Eurozone crisis prolongs.

Two motorcycle-borne assailants attacked a girl student in Rajouri Garden area of west Delhi and snatched her gold chain on Monday evening. Three police teams gave the assailants a chase which lasted for more than an hour and managed to catch them and found that one of them is the son of a Delhi police officer and other of a civil defence officer.

Handicraft items on display at Turkey pavilion during the 31st India International Trade Fair at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi on Monday. — BIPLAB BANERJEE

Former director-general, audit (post and telecommunication) in CAG, R.P. Singh on Monday told the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) that calculation of presumptive loss in the 2G spectrum allocation was at best a “mathematical guess.”

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, who has been playing the role of key trouble-shooter of the government, is keeping the main Opposition in good humour to ensure a smooth Winter Session of Parliament.

The Congress on Monday strongly defended Mr Rahul Gandhi’s statement on migration of people from Uttar Pradesh to other states for jobs alleging that the Opposition was rattled over the rise of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh. It said

British literary circles are abuzz with the emergence of a new literary feud. Right-wing British historian Niall Ferguson, who recently got married to Somali-Dutch writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali, has attacked Indian writer Pankaj Mishra over his book review published in the latest edition of London Review of Books.