Two women were found dead in central Delhi on Wednesday. The police registered cases of murders at the Hauz Qazi and Ranjit Nagar police stations.
According to the investigating officers, 60-year-old Shaukat Begum, who lived alone, was found strangled at her Hauz Qazi residence early on Wednesday. The deceased was found dead by her maid.

A Colombian national has been arrested on charges of burglary by the south Delhi police. The accused and his gang of fellow countrymen committed burglaries after arriving here on tourist visas. The police has recovered `1.56 lakhs in cash, besides gold and silver jewellery worth over `15 lakhs.

Taking a serious view of the fact that the police has failed to trace several missing children in the capital and the NCR region, the Delhi high court on Wednesday asked the city police commissioner to constitute a task-force and to find out if some gangs were involved in their trafficking.

Even if the maximum jail sentence for juvenile offenders in murder cases is three years only, a man, spent 14 years in jail for the offence and has now been set free by the Delhi high court.

The CISF arrested a 56-year-old US national from Indira Gandhi International airport premises on Wednesday for allegedly carrying a live cartridge in his baggage. Police officers said that the accused, Daniel Jon Starks is the CEO of a US firm.

After facing the Opposition heat over the issue of Lokayukta recommending the removal of PWD minister Raj Kumar Chouhan for over a week now, chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday said that her government would discuss a revision in the Delhi Lokayukta Act. The chief minister’s statement came after the BJP created ruckus in

Indian writer Tishani Doshi has been included in the 20-strong longlist for this year’s Orange Prize for Fiction. Chennai-based Do-shi has been nominated for her first novel, The Pleasure Seekers.

Indian writer Tishani Doshi has been included in the 20-strong longlist for this year’s Orange Prize for Fiction. Chennai-based Do-shi has been nominated for her first novel, The Pleasure Seekers.

The five-day-long fashion fiesta that is the Lakme Fashion Week Summer Resort 2011 ended with a bang on Tuesday with a grand finale show by Gauri and Nainika.

Have you ever seen a 20 metre clothesline with clothes of all shapes, sizes and colours merrily dancing in the wind? Ninety five per cent of the answers are going to be in the affirmative.