Chief minister Sheila Dikshit and former chief justice of the Delhi high court Rajinder Sachar locked horns over the privatisation of Delhi Jal Board at a meeting on Monday.

Senior doctors at Sushruta Trauma centre had not informed the officials in ministry of health of the city government about the death of four ICU patients due to lack of oxygen on December 4, 2012.

Twenty-five days after the gangrape and subsequent death of a 23-year-old paramedic student, the Delhi government has realised that the public transport system should be strengthened.

The Delhi government in its recommendations to Justice J.S. Verma Committee, constituted by the government to review and strengthen anti-rape and sexual offences laws, has reportedly sought lowering the age of juvenile offenders from 18 to 16 years.

With the death of 23-year-old gangrape victim on Saturday, pressure mounts on Delhi police commissioner Neeraj Kumar for stepping-down. Chief minister Shiela Dikshit and her son Sandeep, a Congress MP from east Delhi, have been demanding Mr Kumar’s resignation right from the beginning.

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday said the Delhi police must ensure that the people in the city feel safer. When asked about her remarks over the action taken on senior police officials for their alleged irresponsible behaviour in the gangrape case of paramedic student, she, however, maintained that she is nobody to comment on that.

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit, after chairing an emergency Cabinet meeting with her ministers, met Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde to submit certain recommendations following the following violent protests in the city. She expressed serious concerns about the prevailing law and order situation in the city.

A day after this newspaper reported about the crisis in the Delhi transport system, Delhi transport minister Ramakant Goswami on Saturday directed the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) to enhance the

Apart from the rising incidents of rape, women from the national capital often become victims of eve-teasing. Former top cops have suggested better policing and change in laws to prevent such incidents.

Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit will soon write to the Central government for delayed funds which are affecting the development in the national capital. The decision was taken in a Cabinet meeting on Monday chaired by Ms Dikshit.