Andhra Pradesh chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy on Tuesday was dismissive of the party that former Congress MP Jagan Mohan Reddy is all set to launch shortly. He claimed that it will not affect the prospects of the Congress in any way.

At least three persons had a lucky escape when their car fell into a 15-feet pit near Anand Vihar inter-state bus terminal on Tuesday morning. The digging had been carried out to erect pillars for a foot overbridge but there were no warning signs or barricading around.

The MCD has issued notices to more than 600 buildings for allegedly carrying out illegal construction in the area around Lalita Park, where a building collapse on November 15 had led to loss of more than 70 lives. The MCD has been carrying out a survey of dangerous buildings in the area as the problem of flooding of basements due to sub-soil water continues.

Another attempt by Blueline bus operators to buy time before the phaseout deadline of December 14 was rejected by the Delhi high court on Tuesday. The court refused to entertain their plea seeking stay against the phaseout notification of the Delhi government.

Protests broke out outside the Lok Nayak Jaiprakash Narayan Hospital on Sunday evening after a 24-year-old, suspected of raping a minor girl in Hauz Qazi, was allegedly let off by the police from the hospital.

The special cell of Delhi police has arrested four head constables and a constable of Punjab police for allegedly facilitating the escape of two accused in a visa racket case from Ludhiana Jail.

Government agencies will have to go in for a strict security audit of their websites on a regular basis following the recent hacking of the CBI website, according to new guidelines issued by the Centre on Monday.

A 21-year-old MBA graduate allegedly abducted and strangulated to death a young girl in northeast Delhi’s West Jyoti Nagar after demanding `25 lakhs ransom from the victim’s family. The police said the body of the deceased, identified as Neelam, 21, was recovered from a canal in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh on Monday. The accused, identified as Amit Yadav, a MBA graduate from CCS University, has been arrested in the case.

The reform of international monetary institutions and the situation in Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, the Korean peninsula and Iran can be expected to figure in the talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and German Chancellor Angela Merkel this week.

The fifth accused in the Dhaula Kuan gangrape case, who was on the run since the incident and is alleged to be the leader of the “Mobile Gang”, was arrested by the south Delhi police from Gurgaon on Monday.