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Cong-DMK standoff: Both parties keen to avert mishap

It was a day of hectic developments in the national capital on the issue of DMK-Congress standoff that saw both sides keen to avert a mishap.
The six DMK ministers who landed in Delhi with the resolve to submit their resignations at 9.30 am had to postpone their meeting with the Prime Minister Manmohan

PC seeks views on shifting Hindu terror probe to NIA

The Union home ministry has written letters to the CBI and state governments concerned asking them whether they would like to hand over all “Hindu terror” cases, including the Malegaon blasts of 2006 and 2008, the Ajmer Dargah blasts case of 2007 and the 2007 Mecca Masjid blasts case, to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

Man found shot dead in Narela

A 38-year-old service station owner was found shot dead in a vacant plot near his Narela residence with the police suspecting it to be a case of personal enmity.
The incident came to light at around 6.30 am when a man on morning walk saw the body lying in a pool of blood in a vacant plot in Narela. He recognised the deceased as his relative Surender Khatri and called the police.

Suspect Hizb man held in FICN racket

The Delhi police has arrested three youths for allegedly running a fake currency racket. The police claimed to have recovered counterfeit notes with a face value of `10 lakhs from them.

Free sanitary napkins for schoolgirls

In order to improve the attendance of girl students in schools, the city government will soon unveil a plan under which sanitary napkins would be provided free of cost to girl students from poor families. This scheme would cover all Delhi government-run schools where it has been seen that girl students abstain due to hygiene-related issues.

‘United action to make women safe’

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday called for united efforts to enhance security of women in the city. The Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, had said on Saturday that women in the city are not safe despite one of them being the chief minister.

Woman, 60, murdered; help detained

A 60-year-old woman was allegedly bludgeoned to death at her Harsh Vihar residence with the police suspecting the involvement of one of her former domestic helps in the incident.

100 yrs of Women’s Day:AI’s 3 very special flights

Air India will operate a few “all-woman” flights on Tuesday to mark 100 years of International Women’s Day, in which not only the pilots and cabin crew but also check-in and ground staff will be women

SC: Parliament can legislate on all issues which have Indian link

Defining the scope and powers of Parliament to extend its jurisdiction beyond Indian territory, the Supreme Court has held it can legislate on any extraterritorial issue which has a direct “nexus” wit

2G ‘go-slow’ plea by DMK rejected

What really went wrong between the DMK and the Congress? The real trouble, Congress sources said, was not over the number of seats in the Assembly election but the UPA’s rejection of DMK boss M.

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