The Airport Express Line (AEL) of Delhi Metro should begin its operations on February 23, provided the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) completes its deployment process by Monday which is like

Heavy showers and thunder squalls lashed the city on Sunday. Rains started at around 3.20 pm and continued till late in the evening leading to waterlogging on some stretches.

The crime branch of Delhi police arrested eight persons on Saturday for allegedly running three betting syndicates on the ongoing Cricket World Cup matches.

Revenue intelligence officials will press charges against well-known Pakistani singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and his manager Maroof for customs and foreign exchange violations after $124,000 was found on them at IGI Airport last Sunday. The two were again questioned briefly on Saturday.

The Orissa government has agreed to release top Maoist leader Ramakrishna’s wife Padma, alias Sharada, as well as state committee member Ganti Prasad as an initial gesture to kickstart talks to secure the release of Malkangiri collector R. Vineel Krishna and junior engineer Pabitra Mohan Majhi.

India exacted revenge of their shock loss to Bangladesh in the 2007 World Cup, with an 87-run mauling of the same opponents in the 2011 opener at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium in Mirpur, near Dhaka, on Saturday.
A 175-run knock by swashbuckling opener Virender Sehwag off 140 balls, inclusive of 14 hits to the fence and five over it, coupled with an unbeaten 100 by middle-order

At the ninth Kolkata Group Workshop, chaired by Professor Amartya Sen, 45 participants from different walks of life, including social scientists, policy makers and development experts, convened to assess the dimensions of social equity in India especially as related to poverty, elementary education, and health.

In an effort to promote higher education in the educationally backward districts of north-eastern region, Union human resource development ministry has formulated a new initiative with the ministry of development of north-eastern region (DONER). The HRD ministry has written to the north-eastern states asking them to give the go-ahead to the HRD ministry and DONER to establish model degree colleges in these districts with funds from the non-lapsable pool of DONER.

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday asserted that the “power of veto“ vis-à-vis revocation of Disturbed Area Act/ Armed Forces Special Power Act (AFSPA) was with the state government only and “not with anybody else.”

A 15-year old minor girl of Bhopal was abducted, sold to a prospective groom and subsequently gang-raped in a village in the Nazirabad police station area of Bhopal district.