Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday called the woman who had squatted in front of his car on Monday and gave her a patient hearing in Amethi.
Mr Gandhi called Shobhawati Devi and met her at Munshiganj guest house. She had tried to meet him on Monday night but was prevented by SPG personnel. He later

The committee constituted by the Congress to negotiate seat-sharing arrangements with the DMK had its first meeting in Delhi on Tuesday under the stewardship of Union health minister and Tamil Nadu in-charge Ghulam Nabi Azad.

Apparently with an eye on the state Assembly elections due next year, the Mayawati government on Tuesday presented a tax-free budget of `1,69,416.38 crores for the financial year 2011-12.

British writer Beryl Bainbridge, who was shortlisted five times for the Booker Prize but never won, is getting a Booker consolation.
Her failure to win led Bainbridge being labelled as the “Booker bridesmaid” as she is the only author to have been shortlisted five times for the Booker Prize. Bainbridge, who was also an actress, died in July last year when she was 77 years old.

The regularisation of the unauthorised colonies in the capital, which is also a major political issue in the run-up to the MCD elections next year, may take more time than what is being projected by both the main parties concerned. It is the maps of these colonies given by two different entities — Survey of India (SoI) and the residents’ welfare associations (RWAs) — which are not matching in a majority of cases that is proving to be spanner in the works, besides other problems.

The IIPM’s innovative advertisement campaign has created a stir in the print advertisement category in India. Apart from revolutionising the advertisement display in the education sector, the IIPM, a leading Business-School chain, is also the highest ad spender in the print advertisement category.

An elderly woman was held hostage at her south east Delhi residence on Monday evening by two armed assailants who carried out a daring robbery before landing in the police net on Tuesday along with a juvenile and two physically challenged men, who masterminded the incident, .

A day after the Delhi government constituted a five-member committee to look into the issue of trifurcation of the MCD, the chairman of the municipal corporation’s standing committee, Yogender Chandolia, has written to the union home minister P. Chidambaram urging him not to accept the state government’s proposal in this regard.

The Delhi government on Tuesday lifted the ban on registration of property transaction in 567 unauthorised regularised colonies. These colonies were regularised in 1980s but a ban was imposed on registration of property transaction in 2006, as the government had not denotified the land on which they had come up over the years.

In a move to make parking lots high-tech, the Delhi government on Tuesday constituted a core group headed by the chief secretary Rakesh Mehta, while identifying two sites to be taken as pilot project. The core group has been tasked to suggest ways to make the parking lots IT-enabled and automated with least human intervention.