To target more number of customers, especially women, the Delhi State Civil Supplies Corporation Limited has decided to shift its loss-making shops to shopping malls in the city. Sources said the decision to opt for malls was taken keeping women [...]

Five months after a fire at east Delhi’s Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital, one of the two emergency operation theatres (OTs) remain shut. The result: A huge backlog of surgeries. Against the 17-18 surgeries that were done on an average per day earlier, [...]

Advocating zero-tolerance for senior government servants involved in corrupt acts, the Delhi High Court has upheld the punishment of reducing the pay scale of a deputy chief yardmaster of the railways for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs. 300. “Railways [...]

A Delhi court has framed charges of extortion against a suspended crime branch inspector and three others for allegedly extorting money from a businessman in a murder case in 2008. Special Judge Narottam Kaushal has framed charges of extortion [...]

Eleven members of a marriage party were killed on Tuesday and 30 others were injured when a truck in which they were travelling collided head-on with a bus, police said in Kannauj. The marriage party was returning from Mainpuri district when [...]

The board of iGate Corp, an information technology outsourcing services provider, has sacked chief executive officer and president Phaneesh Murthy following an investigation into a claim of sexual harassment. Here are some high-profile cases [...]

Former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was on Tuesday remembered on his 22nd death anniversary with leaders paying homage at his memorial in New Delhi. President Pranab Mukherjee, vice president Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the [...]

last week for deliberately bowling badly in specific overs during the ongoing T20 League after striking deals with bookmakers. “We will seek further custody of the players in the court as we need to interrogate them further,” a [...]

A powerful bomb exploded near the police commando complex at Pallel area in Manipur’s interior Thoubal district but there was no casualty, police said on Tuesday. The bomb, planted by suspected militants in front of the police complex, [...]

Kishtwar. Two soldiers have died while two others have been injured in the shooting,” superintendent of police (SP) Kulbir Singh said. The four SSB troopers were rushed to the Kishtwar district hospital, about 220 km from Jammu, where [...]

The Allahabad high court on Tuesday rejected Noida-based dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar’s plea for examination of 14 more witnesses ignored by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). According to television reports, the couple, [...]

Intense heat wave sweeping Madhya Pradesh has claimed three lives in the state since Monday, police said Tuesday. A 50-year-old man died due to severe heat in Sagar Monday evening, while another youth was found dead under a mango tree on NH [...]

United Nations is concerned… There was no shying away from anything.” He added that the talks were “very specific… very clear”. Asked about the border issue between the two countries, he told reporters: “The [...]

A seven-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped, raped and murdered by her cousin at a town in the neighbouring Mandsaur district. The 18-year-old culprit, the son of the victim’s paternal uncle, was subsequently arrested by the police at [...]

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Congress Rajya Sabha candidate from Assam, has filed a fresh affidavit correcting his age to 80 prior to scrutiny of the nominations Tuesday. The Prime Minister submitted the fresh affidavit two days ago correcting [...]

City police registered a case of theft after diamonds worth Rs. 3.91 crore that were to be exported to Belgium went missing from Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport. According to the complaint, filed with Sahar Police, the complainant, [...]

A girl on Sunday thrashed a youth in public and handed him over to the police, lodging a complaint against him for establishing sexual relations with her on false promise of marriage, police said in Meerut. The 21-year-old girl stated in her [...]

As the capital city witnessed the hottest day of the season on Sunday at 46.1 degrees Celsius, there is worse in store for Delhiites as the temperature is only going upwards in the coming few days, MeT department predicts. The temperature in [...]

League-Nawaz (PML-N) won 124 of 272 contested seats in this month’s parliamentary election. Its nearest rival, the Pakistan People’s Party, won just 31 in the first democratic handover of power since independence in 1947. But Sharif [...]

cooperation with India, saying his choice of destination for his first foreign visit showed the importance that Beijing attached to ties with Delhi. “The purpose of my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual trust, [...]

Bihar’s ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) legislator Sanjay Singh Monday filed a defamation case against Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad for allegedly using unparliamentary language against him. Sanjay Singh, who is also JD-U spokesperson, [...]

The mercury is set to cross the 45 degrees Celsius mark in Delhi Monday, the hottest day of the season so far, the Met Office said. The heat wave conditions is likely to get worse in coming days. According to the India Meteorological Department [...]

For Shivdeep Waman Lande, former city SP of Patna and now ADC to the governor, his special status of being ‘popular with the masses’ and ‘the most eligible bachelor in town’ have started troubling him, thanks to others, and he is not [...]

slogans for a free Tibet, an official said. They also displayed a banner that read “Li Keqiang, Tibet will be free”. The three students were detained by police. Several roads were blocked and Metro stations shut in view of Li’s [...]

Targeting Narendra Modi over the alleged fake encounter of Mumbra resident Ishrat Jahan in 2004, Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar said in Thane that the chief minister and Gujarat police had killed an innocent college girl by branding [...]

After it earned itself a bad name in the Park Street gangrape and Garden Reach shootout cases, Kolkata Police were compensated on Sunday, when Ujjwal Roy, officer-incharge of the Shyampukur police station, scaled the highest peak, Mount Everest, [...]

saying it should be an essential part of the Commonwealth’s Asia policy. Authored by well known Australian journalist Hamish McDonald, the report says Hindi was included as one of the four priority languages in the government’s [...]

Signaling it means business in curbing irregularities in the backdrop of multi level marketing Ponzi scams involving the Saradha Group, a new body set up by the government to check fraudulent investment schemes will meet for the first time on [...]

A 15-year-old girl who was raped in Madhya Pradesh’s Raisen district and set on fire by the father of the accused last week succumbed to burn injuries around 11am on Monday. The minor was admitted to Hamidia Hospital in Bhopal with 90% burns [...]

Commuters in the Capital faced difficulties Monday morning as traffic restrictions were placed in and around central Delhi and in parts of south Delhi due to the visit of Chinese premier Li Keqiang. According to directions issued by Delhi Traffic [...]