The Delhi Police’s Economic Offences Wing on Monday arrested a mother-son duo for allegedly duping people with fake financial deals. The accused, Kitabun Nisa, 63, and her son Anwar Azad, 36, were arrested from the Sonia Vihar area.

A 30-year-old man, who was allegedly demanding dowry from his wife’s parents, allegedly barged into their Sadh Nagar residence in southwest Delhi and attacked them with an axe, the police said on Tuesday.

When was the last time you heard the story of the jinni who came out of a wonderful lamp? Bartimaeus is that kind of demon. He runs errands for his masters, yet keeps an eye for ways to outwit him; is punished repeatedly for his audacious behaviour and finds himself time and again in the midst of trouble.

Terrorism was not really a term in vogue till about the third quarter of the 20th century. But for almost 10 centuries till India’s independence, many acts of aggression, suppression, conversion and religious as well as racial discrimination by marauding hordes of Mongols/Mughals and the British were nothing short of terrorism. So were the heinous pogroms by Hitler on the Jews and Stalin on his own people and by various groups and organisations in world history.

Smartphones, equipped with powerful processors and memories, are potentially capable of reducing the time we spend at work. With screen sizes getting larger with every iteration, smartphones allow you to do everything from write notes, make PowerPoint slides and view PDF documents. Ironically, most smartphone users spend lesser time creating and viewing files and far more time playing games, surfing the Net, chatting with friends and downloading applications.

Serious doubts have arisen over seamer Praveen Kumar’s World Cup participation due to a continuing problem with his elbow. The Board of Control for Cricket in India, on its part, is keeping everyone concerned in the dark on a possible replacement.

Janata Party president Subramaniam Swamy on Monday sought sanction from Tamil Nadu governor Surjit Singh Barnala to prosecute chief minister M. Karunanidhi for allegedly allotting government land to a “favoured few” under the discretionary quota in violation of rules.

In a vertical split in the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom, its elusive “commander-in-chief” Paresh Baruah on Monday rejected the proposed February 10 peace talks between New Delhi and a Ulfa faction led by chairman Arbinda Rajkhowa.

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has invited arch-rival Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) to join his new Cabinet, which is likely to be formed in the next few days.

Causing further embarrassment to the government, CVC P.J. Thomas took a new stance in the Supreme Court on Monday and questioned the competence of MPs facing serious criminal charges to legislate for the country whereas he merely faced a chargesheet in Kerala’s “politically motivated” palmolein import case.