Even as the city witnessed events to mark World Population Day and stressed on women’s health and girl child on Monday, three incidents of alleged medical negligence rocked government hospitals in the capital.

Anxious relatives of the passengers onboard the Kalka Mail rushed to the New Delhi railway station after hearing the news of the derailment.

A civil services aspirant was found dead in northeast Delhi on Monday with the police suspecting the role of his “live-in partner” who has been detained for questioning.

In a rare display of selfless behaviour, an autorickshaw driver returned a bag filled with cash and jewellery to a Patna-based couple who had left it behind in his vehicle in Chanakyapuri area on Thursday.

The cellphone of Prime Minister’s media adviser, Harish Khare, was stolen from his car parked outside his residence at Civil Lines on Wednesday afternoon.

In a bizarre display which shows lack of coordination between various police agencies in the national capital region, the Gurgaon police cremated the body of a man, who was abducted from his south Delhi residence and later shot dead, allegedly without confirming his identity.

There were tears of joy as well as relief as the six sailors who spent six months in the captivity of Somali pirates flew home on Friday morning. Landing at the capital’s IGI airport after flying in from Dubai, the sailors had tales of horror to narrate of their 10-month ordeal during which they were beaten and starved by their captors.

The hard life at the Tihar jail is taking a toll of some of its high-profile prisoners while some appear to have taken this brush with adversity in their stride.

While some are in prison for their

Addiction can make people do strange and bizarre things as was confirmed by the act of a Tihar Jail inmate here. In a bid to satiate his craving for tobacco, the inmate went to the extent of swallowing a whole large pouch to evade security frisking, but his ploy took a rather ugly turn when it all ended causing to him severe medical problems which sent the police and doctors searching for clues.