An elderly woman was found murdered in her house at Sarai Rohilla in north Delhi on Wednesday. The police suspects robbery to be the motive as cash and articles worth around `40 lakhs were missing. In another incident in the same area, a 30-year-old man was shot dead when a business rival opened fire from his licenced revolver over a trivial issue.

The death of 67 people in the Lalita Park building collapse incident is a grim reminder of how the families uprooted from the Yamuna pushta for rehabilitation were forced to live in dungeon-like houses in localities. Livelihood and low rent forced them to risk their lives in the buildings, no less than deathtraps, allegedly “specifically built” for them.

Amritpal Singh Sachdeva, the owner of the building which collapsed at Lalita Park in Lakshmi Nagar on Monday evening, did not only have a criminal background, but he also exploited the space in the building to the maximum extent possible. Apart from the 55-odd rooms on five floors, he even rented out the space under the stairs. It is

Turning the heat on the main Opposition BJP on the issue of corruption, the Congress on Wednesday accused the saffron party of having double standards on the issue. It asked the BJP to sack Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa in the wake of a controversy surrounding allocation of land to his son.

A makeshift dais used by RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and his ally Ram Vilas Paswan of the LJP to address a public meeting brought death for a 10-year-old boy trapped under it as it collapsed with the weight of people scrambling to see the two leaders’ helicopter on Wednesday.

Concerned over the building collapse in which 66 lives were lost, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday visited the victims in LNJP Hospital, which received the maximum number of cases of injuries as well as deaths.

The Canadian makers of BlackBerry — Research in Motion — have assured the government of providing interception facilities to its BlackBerry Enterprise (BES) services.
From a stalemate over the issues for the last six months, a senior government official said, there has now been progress in arriving at a solution where the BES service

The death toll in Monday evening’s building collapse at Lalita Park in Laxmi Nagar area of east Delhi climbed to 66 on Tuesday. The owner of the building, Mr Amritpal Singh, has been arrested by the east Delhi police and booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

Stating that the party would react to the CAG report relating to department of telecommunication only after studying it, the Congress on Tuesday chose to steer itself clear of the SC’s observation as to why PM Manmohan Singh did not act for long on the issue of granting sanction to prosecute Mr A. Raja in the 2G spectrum scam.

Janata Party chief Subramanium Swamy on Tuesday stated on Tuesday that he was planning to file a criminal complaint agai-nst former telecom minister A. Raja on charges of corruption for his role in the 2G spectrum allocation scam.