In a daylight burglary in north-west Delhi’s Ashok Vihar area, unidentified robbers barged into the house of a businessman and decamped with cash and jewellery worth around `20 lakhs on Thursday afternoon.

India on Friday summoned Tehran’s acting ambassador to convey its deep disappointment over supreme Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s “unpalatable” remarks on Kashmir. New Delhi also broke with tradition and abstained from voting on a UNGA resolution critical of the human rights situation in Iran. India has voted against the resolution in the past, and sought to explain its abstention in New York on Thursday by citing the remarks on Kashmir.

Even as the relief and rescue operations at the Lalita Park building collapse site completed on Friday evening, the MCD has decided to give more time to its vigilance department for completing an inquiry into the incident. Meanwhile, a team of officials of the MCD on Friday went to the Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee, for discussions on the structural safety survey that is to be conducted in three months.

Appearing before a division bench comprising Justices Anil Kumar and S.L. Bhayana, former additional solicitor-general (ASG) K.K.

A student fell to death in west Delhi’s Paschim Vihar area while climbing up a sanitary pipe of a house to meet his girlfriend. The police said the deceased identified as Ankush Wadhwa fell at around 3 pm when the pipeline gave away. The police said Wadhwa hails from Punjab’s Moga and had come to meet his girlfriend who lives in the locality.

Two minors were charred to death while their mother is critical at the Safdarjung Hospital after a fire broke out at their Ranhola residence in west Delhi on Wednesday night.

Contrary to the claims made by MCD officials on Wednesday about no more bodies remaining in the debris at the Lalita Park building collapse site, three more bodies were recovered, pushing the toll to 70, including 29 women and 17 children.

The Centre has issued a specific intelligence alert to Mumbai warning of possible attempts by Pakistan-based LeT to strike terror during the next ten days. A red alert has also been sounded in New Delhi after there were intelligence inputs to suggest that busy market places such as Palika Bazar may be targeted by terror outfits like the

The CBI is set to send a Letter of Request to authorities concerned in London to get the details of the functioning of Ashish Patel, owner of A.M. Films and Cars, who has been booked by the agency on the charges of forgery and cheating in connection with alleged irregularities during the Queen’s Baton Relay (QBR) held in London in 2010.

The government on Thursday approved the recommendations of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on the Bhopal gas leak tragedy to provide additional ex-gratia compensation of `71.28 crores for the victims.