The driver of a city school bus jumped a traffic signal, fatally hit a cyclist and then crushed a Delhi traffic police cop, killing both on the spot, after the policeman signalled him to halt, near a crossing at Burari, outer Delhi, on Monday morning.

The Union health ministry is mulling a proposal to attract NRI doctors to All-India Institute of Medical Sciences with attractive pay packages. The ministry has decided to invite NRI doctors under 50 years of age.

Investigations by the Madhya Pradesh police, prior to filing of chargesheet into RSS pracharark Sunil Joshi’s murder case, have reached a roadblock as two of those wanted in this case are absconding and the police is clueless about their whereabouts.

A man, who had been mortgaged by his wife and cousin for `15,000, has been made to work as a bonded labourer at a tent house company in Gurgaon for over five years now. He was let off recently when his family traced him and paid back the amount along with the interest.

Facing a petition for “mercy killing” of a former nurse of Mumbai’s King Edward Memorial Hospital reduced to vegetable existence for the past 36 years following a brutal sexual assault, the Supreme Court on Monday appointed a team of three expert doctors to examine her before any such plea could be considered.

Beginning this Republic Day, it will be Bihar’s ministers and not the IAS officers who will hoist the tricolour at government-organised functions at the state’s district headquarters on national days.

After MV Chitra and MV Khalija III collided, the resultant oil spill has had the most harmful effect on mangroves in Colaba and Vashi. An interim report on the study of the impact of the oil spill on mangroves in Mumbai and along the Raigad coast has revealed this fact. Moreover, there is no hope for the regeneration of mangroves from

Income-tax officials raided the residences and offices of Bollywood actresses Katrina Kaif and Priyanka Chopra in Mumbai on Monday. Sources said that they had been investigating the offshore incomes of the actresses for the last two years and also suspected that the two had taken a portion of their payments for work in cash.

The Central probe agencies, including the CBI, have taken serious note of the appointment of 35 advisers by the top brass of the Organising Committee (OC) in different fields in connection with the Commonwealth Games (CWG) and are investigating further to ascertain the circumstances under which they were appointed. The probe has revealed that the advisors, though being paid a hefty sum every month or on every visit, did not even submit monthly reports to the OC. The OC has already been facing several allegations of irregularities regarding appointments of foreign consultants and paying them at a heavy price.

Chairman of the scandal-ridden Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (OC), Suresh Kalmadi, had been adamant that he would not step down from his post as the OC chairman and Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president until he got a letter in this regard from the sports ministry.