As if the trauma of loosing their near and dear ones and getting uprooted from their homes was not enough, the relatives of the victims in the Lalita Park building collapse incident now claim that their belongings are going amiss. They claim that they had managed to salvage a few things but were not allowed to keep them. The authorities said that locals and other unidentified people, who did not have anything to do with the incident, have managed to lay their hands on the belongings during the melee that ensued within the first few days of the incident.

Following loss of lives in an east Delhi building collapse, the Delhi Cabinet on Monday constituted a high-powered committee to frame a broad policy for providing shelter to the poor. The Cabinet also decided that 9,000 low-cost houses would be allotted to the poor on a priority basis soon.

The final decision about the auction of 100 flats in the Commonwealth Games Village will take some time as the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) is yet to send the proposal, which has been passed by the authority in a meeting, to the Union urban development ministry. The ministry will have to approve the decision before its implementation. DDA sources said that there was no problems as such and it was only a matter of procedure.

A 25-year-old software engineer was shot dead by a gang of unidentified motorcycle-borne assailants in northwest Delhi’s Saraswati Vihar on Sunday night.
The police said the deceased, identified as Prateek Trikha, was on way to his Rajnagar home after attending a friend’s wedding reception in neighbouring Ashok Vihar when the two unidentified men on a motorcycle intercepted him.

The six-day-long Winter Session of the Delhi Assembly is set to commence from Tuesday, with the alleged financial irregularities in the just concluded Commonwealth Games likely to give the House a stormy start. The Opposition is also gearing up to corner the ruling Congress-led city government on the issue of the collapse of a House in east Delhi as well.

The UN, through its programme Unifem, on Monday launched a “safe cities” campaign worldwide in order to improve the lot of women, both young and old, and make the cities safer place for them to live in. The programme, which has been launched in the capital, will also be implemented in five different cities around the world. The other

A 28-year-old man committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan at his residence on Central Delhi’s Deshbandhu Gupta Road on Saturday evening.

The northeast Delhi police arrested five persons on Saturday in connection with separate cases of vehicle thefts and claimed to have busted two rackets of auto lifters and scrap dealers.

The Delhi police claimed to have arrested four persons, including a Bangladeshi woman, from west Delhi for allegedly cheating people by luring them to exchange dollars with Indian currency at very che

A 22-year-old was killed while another man was injured in separate accidents reported from the city in the last 24 hours.