A young shopkeeper, who was watching the Indo-Pak cricket match on Wednesday, was found shot dead in mysterious circumstances at the end of the match in neighbouring Ghaziabad. The police, however, said that a supposed argument between him and some people over the match did not seem to be the reason behind the incident, as was believed initially.

In an unusual order, the Delhi high court has asked a financially well-off woman to pay `20,000 as monthly maintenance to her 55-year-old husband facing penury. Upholding a lower court’s order, Justice G.S. Sistani asked the wife to pay maintenance to her husband under Section 125 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC).

The Delhi police has arrested six people, including five Uzbek women, for running a sex racket in south Delhi.
The accused were arrested following a tip-off that a call girl racket was being run from Uday Park area in south Delhi. The police said the mobile number of the pimp was identified and a decoy customer was sent on Wednesday to Uday Park along with a police cover following which the arrested were made.

A 26-year-old BSES employee was stabbed to death and his six friends, including his younger brother, were grievously injured in east Delhi’s Krishna Nagar area on Wednesday night.

Under stinging attack from the Opposition, the Delhi government is today believed to have sent the final response to the Shunglu Committee report which has indicted Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit and lieutenant governor Tejendra Khanna among several people for delays and losses in infrastructure projects for the Commonwealth Games, said sources.

Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday turned 74 on Thursday and celebrated her birthday by cutting several cakes brought by a large number of supporters.
The Delhi ministers reached her 3, Motilal Nehru Marg residence minister to wish her. A large number of followers also trooped in at her residence with flowers and

After legislators in Bihar lost the lucrative local area development (LAD) funds to chief minister Nitish Kumar’s new initiatives to curb corruption, they are happy to get a three-fold rise in their salaries and perks becoming effective from April 1.

The Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh will now work towards bringing the young generations of dalits into the party fold and familiarize them with the party ideology and philosophy.

The growth of population in the frontier state of Assam has declined but higher growth rate of population in bordering districts remains an area of concern.
Disclosing that population of Assam has grown to 3.11 crores, R.K. Das, the director of Census operation Assam, told reporters that state has registered an average growth rate of 16.93 per cent which not only less than 2001 Census but also below the national growth rate of population 17.64 per cent.

The government’s attempts at improving literacy levels in the country through the introduction of revolutionary laws and programmes like the Right To Education Act and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan appear to be bearing fruit. The country has witnessed a remarkable increase in literacy levels by 9.21 per cent in the past 10 years to reach 74.04 per cent of the total population.