Two killed and four others were injured in two cases of hit-and-run in the last 24 hours in city.
In the first incident, a 50-year-old man was killed and four others were injured when an unidentified SUV hit them from behind in Chhawla area of southwest Delhi late on Monday night.

With the Assembly elections in city coming closes, the city government is giving approval to all possible projects and schemes in the Cabinet meetings. On Tuesday, at a Cabinet meeting presided over by chief minister Sheila Dikshit, the city government gave its nod to at least six projects and schemes.

Tremors were felt in the city and its satellite areas on Tuesday evening when a powerful earthquake struck western Pakistan’s Baluchistan province. The tremors were felt around 5 pm for about 45 seconds, which left people rushing out into open spaces.

The Delhi BJP is leaving no stone unturned to make the proposed rally of Narendra Modi, scheduled for September 29, a huge success. The party leaders on Tuesday unveiled “Operation Blitzkrieg.”

After failing to get the contentious legislation passed in Parliament, the government on Tuesday chose the ordinance route to soften the blow on convicted MPs and MLAs.

The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday announced the formation of a special investigation cell to take over the probe into the Muzaffarnagar riots that left 49 people dead and rendered thousands homeless.

Over 150 people were killed and dozens injured as a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Pakistan’s Balochistan and Sindh provinces Tuesday. It impacted a number of cities, including Karachi‚ Hyderabad‚ Quetta and Kalat, rescue officials said.

Petroleum minister M. Veerappa Moily said on Tuesday that as of now there was no proposal to steeply hike diesel and LPG prices. Instead, Mr Moily launched an austerity-cum-conservation drive to reduce fuel consumption and help manage the current account deficit by saving “billions of dollars”.

The Supreme Court will on Friday hear the plea of the Cricket Associ-ation of Bihar seeking to restrain N. Srinivasan from contesting for the post of cricket board president at the BCCI’s annual general meeting on September 29.

After 16 months in judicial custody, YSR Congress president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy walked out of Chanchalguda Central Prison on Tuesday evening at 4 pm after getting bail.