The Delhi Police wants to understand the revenue model in the tripartite agreement between the BCCI, Rajasthan Royals and the cricketers. ...
02:29 PM, Jun 03, 2013
New Delhi: The family of the Delhi girl who succumbed to acid attack injuries at a Mumbai hospital on Sunday threatened to block roads at the Delhi-Haryana border if their demands for a CBI probe wasn't met. The family said it will not cremate the body until their demands were met, which also include cremation with state honours and a government job. They plan to block traffic as part of...
01:27 PM, Jun 03, 2013
New Delhi: Live updates: 3.31 pm: BCCI sources: "Right now powers of the Treasurer and Secretary are with Jagmohan Dalmiya. In effect, he enjoys all the powers of the president. The probe panel could be formed this week. Replacements of Jagdale and Shirke have to be found. They are unlikely to return." 3.17 pm: The meeting between Delhi Police and BCCI ex-secretary Sanjay Jagdale has ended. The meeting lasted two...
11:06 AM, Jun 03, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Sunday arrested a man in connection with the murder of a property dealer, who was shot dead in his office on Thursday, a police officer said. "Rishi Gupta, 30, was arrested near the Shahadra Metro station Sunday morning. He had come there to meet a friend," Additional Commissioner of Police Ravindra Yadav said. Two pistols and live cartridges have been recovered from Gupta's possession, Yadav...
05:19 AM, Jun 03, 2013
New Delhi: A 35-year-old businessman was on Sunday stabbed to death in Delhi by his jobless younger brother over a property dispute, police said. Mukhtyar Ali, who used to run an air-conditioner repairing shop, was stabbed in the chest with a pair of scissors by Dilshad, 30, at his house in central Delhi's Chandni Mahal area around 10.45 am, police said. Police said Dilshad is absconding. The two brother had...
05:12 AM, Jun 03, 2013
New Delhi: To oppose the proposed four-year graduate programme in Delhi university (DU), various students organisations have decided to hold protests in the national capital on Monday. "This four-year programme is an anti-student educational reform that will adversely affect students coming from the Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Other Backward Castes (OBC), the physically-challenged and minority communities in many ways," said a joint statement from Campus Front of India...
04:53 AM, Jun 03, 2013
New Delhi: It is being billed as the David vs Goliath battle. After taking on Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on the streets, Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal has finally declared that he would be taking her on in the upcoming Assembly elections in the national capital. Kejriwal is known for targeting and taking on people right at the top, be it Robert Vadra, Nitin Gadkari, Narendra Modi or...
10:35 PM, Jun 02, 2013
New Delhi: A teenage girl, who went out for an evening walk, was allegedly kidnapped and gangraped in a moving car by three men in north-west Delhi, police said on Sunday. The incident took place in Nangloi area late Saturday night and the trio -- Anwar (30), a property dealer, Sandeep (32), a mobile shop owner, and Anish (35), a guard, were arrested today. The accused dumped the girl near...
09:33 PM, Jun 02, 2013
Mumbai: Actress Soha Ali Khan has completed a year of tweeting on micro blogging site Twitter and calls it her "longest social-networking commitment". "One year on Twitter today (Sunday)! It's been my longest social-networking commitment - thanks to all of you for keeping it interesting," Soha, 34, posted. She is currently shooting for 'War Chod Na Yaar', being directed by Faraz Haider and produced by AOPL Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. The...
05:17 PM, Jun 02, 2013
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party National Convener Arvind Kejriwal will contest directly against Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit in the coming Delhi Assembly elections. Dikshit has contested from the New Delhi constituency in the past. AAP took the decision after a meeting of its volunteers in the national capital on Sunday. AAP plans to emerge as a key player in Delhi after the state election. Last week, AAP also released...
12:54 PM, Jun 02, 2013
New Delhi: A group of travel agents have used forged letterheads of Union ministers S Jaipal Reddy, Anand Sharma and KC Venugopal to get confirmed wait-listed rail tickets, police said on Sunday. A case of cheating and forgery has been registered by the Delhi Police on a complaint filed by the Vigilance wing of Northern Railways after it got a tip off from its Divisional Commercial Manager in Lucknow. A...
11:14 AM, Jun 02, 2013
New Delhi: An accused in several cases of murder, extortion and land grabbing has been arrested in Delhi, police said on Saturday. Harsimran Singh, 25, was arrested from north Delhi's Shalimar Bagh area on the intervening night of May 30-31 after police received a tip-off about him. According to police, Singh had attacked the former president of a Resident Welfare Association (RWA) in Shalimar Bagh. "He (Singh) would extort money...
05:06 AM, Jun 02, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi police on Saturday arrested three persons for allegedly putting fake number plates on trucks to obtain loans from private finance companies on them. "Vinod Ram (54), Ricky Arora (28) and Amit Oberoi (34) were arrested from Garhi Nizam Pur village located at Jonti Nizam Pur Road," said Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Ravindra Yadav. "A truck was also recovered from them on which they were putting...
02:58 AM, Jun 02, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Saturday launched a Rs 422 crore road corridor project in Mukarba Chowk area of North-West Delhi. To be constructed on Outer Ring Road, the corridor will link the crowded Madhuban Chowk with Mukarba Chowk area. The project is part of a 20 km-long signal free corridor from from Vikaspuri in West Delhi to Wazirabad in North Delhi, the total cost of which...
12:41 AM, Jun 02, 2013
Three days after the mysterious death of a 21-year-old Manipuri girl, students and activist have come out in large numbers demanding a fair probe in the case. The girl was found dead in her rented apartment in Chirag Dilli, she was lying in a pool of blood. Police registered a case of suicide which is now being challenged by her relatives and friends. The girl was working in a Saket...
09:08 PM, Jun 01, 2013
New Delhi: The government is set to tell the Supreme Court that it is ready to bring in amendments to Delhi Police Establishments Act that will ensure more independence to the CBI, sources said on Saturday. Sources told CNN IBN that the government is also set to tell the apex court that it will not interfere in CBI investigations. Under fire for interfering in the probe into coal block allocations,...
06:20 PM, Jun 01, 2013
New Delhi: The Planning Commission on Friday raised Delhi's annual plan outlay from Rs 13,229 crore to Rs 16,000 crore - an increase of 21 per cent over last year. "The Planning Commission has fixed Rs 16,000 crore as the size of 2013-14 Annual Plan outlay for Delhi," Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said here after a meeting with Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia. An amount of Rs...
10:20 AM, Jun 01, 2013
New Delhi: Three accused in the December 16 gangrape case were on Friday identified in a special court in New Delhi by the lady police officer, the prime witness, who had arrested them hours after the heinous crime. The investigating officer (IO), the last and the crucial prosecution witness in the case, began her deposition before the court of Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna by correctly identifying Vinay Sharma, Pawan...
06:47 PM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Airport Express Metro on Friday launched a new 30-trip monthly pass for commuters which will reduce the fare by around 33 per cent compared to the single journey fare. The new 30-trip monthly passes would cost between Rs 400 and Rs 2,000 for 30 trips, depending upon boarding and alighting stations of the passenger. The 30-day trip pass has been launched following complaints from commuters against the...
05:31 PM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: Two youths have been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a man, who was having an affair with their acquaintance and cheated on her, by a Delhi court which relied on lie detection test and brain fingerprinting reports. District Judge P S Teji awarded the jail term to Pawan Kumar and Sunder Singh for murdering Delhi resident Ishwar Singh by stabbing him 30 times in November 2001. The...
05:09 PM, May 31, 2013
