A policeman, who raped a girl on false promise of marrying her, concealing his existing marriage and later faked his death to get rid of her, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail by a city court.

Chaos and confusion prevailed at South district’s Okhla police station when three officials of the Maharashtra ATS were detained for a couple of hours by the local police.

Nine Metro stations will be closed for six hours and services partially curtailed on three lines on Republic Day.
Rajiv Chowk, Patel Chowk, Central Secret-ariat, Udyog Bhavan, Race Course, Khan Market, Barakhamba Road, Mandi House and Pragati Maidan Metro Stations will be closed from 6 am to 12.30 pm on Thursday as part of security arrangements for the Republic Day.

Russia on Monday handed over the nuclear-powered Akula-II class Russian navy submarine K-152 Nerpa to the Indian Navy and the submarine was then formally inducted into the Indian Navy.

The capital will be under hawk-eye vigil in the run-up to the Republic Day with 25,000 security personnel being deployed in a massive ground-to-air security apparatus, the police said on Saturday. Snipers will be stationed atop highrises, while more than 160 CCTVs will keep a vigil on the parade route from Rajpath to Red Fort, joint commissioner of police (traffic) Satyendra Garg told reporters here.

Amidst widespread outrage over author Salman Rushdie having to cancel his India visit in the face of stiff opposition from fundamentalist groups and a possible threat to his life, the Maharashtra police said it did not have any information about Rushdie’s life being in danger.

Over 200 flights were delayed and at least 17 were cancelled at the New Delhi IGI airport on Wednesday, mainly due to dense fog that resulted in massive inconvenience to passengers.

In a major setback to Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, the Gujarat high court on Wednesday endorsed the governor’s appointment of the lokayukta, which was challenged by the state government. This decision comes three months after the high court delivered a split verdict on the issue.

A city court has pulled up the Delhi police for its “deficient” probe into the alleged use of a fake caste certificate by a constable for his recruitment and has asked the police commissioner to conduct a department probe against the erring investigators.

Upset over BSES’ failure to pay `3,000 crores to power generation firms including NTPC, chief minister Sheila Dikshit has taken the matter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh apprising him of the situation.
Ms Dikshit said she will also brief Union power minister Sushil Kumar Shinde about the power crisis looming over the city in the wake of various power generation firms threatening to cut power supply to BSES for failing to pay dues.