Cricketer Virender Sehwag and actor Akshay Kumar are among celebrities being considered by the state’s tourism department as Delhi's first brand ambassador.
Admitting that the UPA government is going through tough times, law minister Salman Khurshid said on Sunday that the Congress was prepared for all options, including being in the Opposition after the 2014 general elections.
HT reports.
Two days after HT reported a road rage incident in which the additional chief metropolitan magistrate of Delhi’s south district was abused and slapped by a businessman, three more judges became victims of a road rage case in south Delhi’s Dakshinpuri area on Thursday.
A parliamentary panel has sought to put strict safeguards on the government’s powers to acquire land and recommended that no plot under cultivation be taken away unless as a last resort.
Prasad Nichenametla reports.
RecommendationsAfter back to back incidents of road rage against judicial officials from the Saket court, the bar association has called for a strike in all district courts on Friday. In latest incident on Thursday, three judges and their driver were assaulted by four bikers following a scuffle over a trivial issue. HT reports.
The theatre of the absurd rolled out at the first house meeting of the newly-formed East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC). The meeting was held in a makeshift shift tent amid uproar and protest from the opposition. One of the councillors even snatched the mike from the mayor, Annapurna Mishra. HT reports.
It is not just the East Delhi councillors who are not satisfied with their office at the Udyog Bhavan in Patparganj industrial area. Rajat Arora reports.
Delhi University's decision to sell forms from post offices has not gone down well with the aspirants. Oshin Gupta reports.
A city court has sought a response from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a plea by Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, on whether witnesses can be confronted with their affidavits submitted before two commissions of inquiry that was constituted to examine the riot cases. HT reports.
Exactly a week before Indo-US strategic dialogue in Washington, US defence secretary Leon Panetta is coming to the Capital on June 6 to discuss long term defence cooperation and seal the big ticket $1.4 billion worth sale of 22 Apache Longbow attack helicopters to India.
The high court here on Thursday directed the Delhi government to set up a school in Badarpur Khadar village in northeast Delhi by July this year. HT reports.
Minister asks Board to look at providing jobs to those who lost land before the job policy was announced.
The outer district police have arrested a taxi driver who allegedly killed his brother on Tuesday during a scuffle that followed after the victim’s car grazed the accused’s vehicle. HT reports.
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev seems to be in trouble again. The crusader against black money, who was under the scanner of investigative agencies for some time, has been slapped with a tax demand notice by the Income Tax (I-T) department.
With monsoon just a few weeks ahead, the public works department (PWD) has got on the job to repair all major roads in the Capital. Senior PWD officials said they have identified the stretches that require immediate repair.