The Delhi high court has ordered the city government to pay `5 lakh as damages to a juvenile delinquent who has been languishing in jail for over eight years after his conviction by a sessions court in a murder case although the law prescribes no more than three years of detention of such persons.

Minister of environment Jairam Ramesh met a group of protesters living in colonies located around the controversial Timarpur-Okhla waste to energy project, owned by Jindal Ecopolis, at Paryavaran Bhawan on Friday.

A young man is battling for life at Sanjay Gandhi Hospital after he was abducted from south Delhi’s Dhaula Kuan area and robbed before being shot and thrown out of a Santro car in outer Delhi’s Kanjhawala area on Thursday evening. The incident took place on Thursday at around 6.30 pm when three unidentified assailants appeared

After the end of the Budget session of the Delhi Assembly, the Union home ministry is learnt to have asked the city government to relieve top officials whose transfers were temporarily suspended in February following a request by chief minister Sheila Dikshit.

A 25-year-old man was shot dead by unidentified assailants when he tried to foil a robbery attempt on his employer in the Badarpur area of southeast Delhi.
The incident took place on Thursday night and the deceased has been identified as Manoj, a native of Bihar, who worked as a salesman at Anchal Traders, a garment shop in Agarwal Market owned by Ravi Kumar.

Egypt’s ambassador to India, Mr Khaled El Bakly, points to photographs from his collection of the Egypt revolution in New Delhi on Friday.

The BJP, whose leader and Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has banned American author Joseph Lelyveld book on Mahatma Gandhi in his state, on Friday treaded with caution on the issue.

Invoking Mahatma Gandhi’s stature, the Congress on Friday said it did not want to lend any dignity to the controversial book on the Father of the Nation by suggesting and demanding anything. The party, however, was of the view that it was up to the government to decide on the course of action on the book, which has already been banned.

The humble birthplace of iconic British novelist George Orwell in Bihar was saved from turning into an animal farm, but the earliest vestiges of the Englishman’s Indian origin are now locked in a quarrel between an English teacher claiming ownership and a shocked state government.

Union human resources development minister Kapil Sibal on Friday stated that the country could attain total literacy in the next 10 years as the literacy level in the country had reached 74 per cent as per the provisional 2011 Census.