For thousands of students who come to Delhi University from across the country, the new four-year undergraduate programme is going to translate into a financial setback. While the annual fee charged by DU colleges is much lesser as compared [...]

The city witnessed the hottest day of the season on Sunday as the maximum temperature at the Palam station was recorded as 46.1 degrees Celsius. The maximum at Safdarjung station was recorded at a sizzling 44.6 degrees Celsius. This was five [...]

Tainted Saradha group head Sudipta Sen said before a local court on Sunday he had to satisfy political leaders, including ministers, so that he could run his allegedly crooked investment business unhindered. “Within three months the truth [...]

The Uttar Pradesh Police have arrested three persons in connection with the murder of a Delhi police assistant sub-inspector, who had gone to Bilahari village in Chitrakoot to work out a case of robbery. ASI Jai Bhagwan Sharma and constable [...]

Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi, or Charles Ponzi, only wanted to give “them (his victims) the best show that was ever staged… It was easily worth the fifteen million bucks to watch me put the thing over”. But he could [...]

Different notes on different strokes. That’s how Delhi’s forest department and public works department are presenting facts about a road-widening project in Vasant Kunj, which remains halted and mired in controversy because of illegal felling [...]

The Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh has sharply criticised the NREGS ‘funds cut’ by the Centre. Last year, the Centre has provided 44% less fund to the state. And given Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh’s recent [...]

The Chhattisgarh government on Sunday ordered a judicial inquiry into Friday night’s encounter between security forces and suspected naxals near Edasmeta village in Bijapur district, in which eight villagers were killed. The locals said the [...]

Contrary to the popular belief, there are no immediate plans to shift Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt to Pune-based Yerwada jail, Meeran Borwankar, additional director general of police (prisons) told HT on Sunday. Dutt, who is lodged in a high [...]

To keep stringent check on contractors appointed for desilting nullahs and for disposing the extracted silt at the designated sites, the civic body has introduced a vehicle-tracking system for the vehicles being used by contractors to transport [...]

Just back from a two-year stint in Dubai, 27-year-old freelance writer Ruma Sinha was throwing a housewarming party for her friends in November and wanted her food to stand out. So she ordered an authentic Thai spread, not from a restaurant [...]

When a 24-year-old woman commuter called the Government Railway Police (GRP) helpline after being hit by a stone while travelling in a local train in Thane, she was told there was nothing that could be done. The apathetic behaviour of the GRP [...]

Farukh Ahmed Khan, 23, crawls reluctantly off a flimsy mattress. It’s 7 am. His four roommates are still sleeping, on mattresses scattered across the 100-sq-ft room. But it’s Khan’s turn to cook today, and he must get started early if [...]

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) legislator Suresh Dhas is likely to be arrested soon for vandalising the local branch of State Bank of Hyderabad in Beed earlier this week. Dhas, who is considered to be close to deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, [...]

Of the 28 wards in the city, the civic body has identified the one in Kurla (L ward) to be the most prone to monsoon misery this year as it has 15 flooding zones, 15 landslide spots and 89 dilapidated buildings. In a recent survey, the Brihamumbai [...]

A 44-year-old doctor booked for rape escaped the police net in dramatic fashion when cops were escorting him to the Khar police station from his residence at Dadar Parsi Colony on Saturday. The 26-year-old victim, a resident of Ghatkopar, has [...]

It is the duty of every citizen to renounce practices derogatory to the dignity of women, said the Bombay high court while rejecting a petition filed by artist Chintan Upadhyay seeking the cancellation of a criminal proceeding against him for [...]