Two men jumped to death and seven others suffered injuries after a major fire broke out at a residential building in central Delhi’s Karol Bagh area on Thursday evening.

The government is examining the possibility of enco-uraging banks to provide financial aid in the form of loans to Kingfisher Airli-nes even as the airline sou-ght urgent financial relief from banks and asked the government for help.

A 65-year-old woman was murdered in posh GK-I area on Friday. The murder of the victim Yogesh came to light around 6.45 pm when her nephew returned home from office.

The much-awaited trial of the high-profile 2G spectrum allocation scam case began in a Delhi court on Friday even as former communications minister A. Raja, one of the accu-sed, declined to cross-examine the prosecution witnesses, saying the CBI probe is “still incomplete”.

An Australian national was held hostage by two unidentified assailants at Bhuli Bhatiyari Mahal in Lutyens’ Delhi and robbed of his gold ornaments on Wednesday. The police said the victim, who had arrived in the national capital last week on a tourist visa, was staying at Chanchal Delux Hotel.

As the role of Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi “expands”, a host of Congress leaders — Mr Digvijay Singh, Mr Milind Deora, Mr Jairam Ramesh, Mr Prithviraj Chavan, Mr Kanishka Singh and Ms Meenakshi Natrajan — could play key roles either in the organisation or in government in the coming days. Such is the talk within the party.

There is good news for small savers: the government on Friday raised interest rates on post office savings and the public provident fund.

One more minister of the Naveen Patnaik council of ministers is caught in the land row. The state BJP on Thursday alleged that revenue minister Surya Narayan Patro had “grabbed” 10,296 square feet land at Nayapali in the city.

The Supreme Court on Friday made it plain that it has no role to play in the Telangana issue as any decision on formation of the new state entirely fell in the domain of the Union government. But the top court took cognisance of the “bad governance” and huge damage to public property during the agitation for separate state and issued notices to the Centre and the Andhra Pradesh governments in this regard.

The Congress on Friday launched its “Mission 2013” to wrest power from the ruling BJP in Chhattisgarh in the coming Assembly polls, in style, by beginning its campaign for 11 Bastar seats — considered crucial to return to power at Raipur — on the “auspicious” time of 11 hours 11 minutes and 11 seconds on the “lucky” date of 11.11.11.