An anonymous call received at the police control room on Tuesday afternoon left the security agencies in a tizzy as the caller claimed that a “bomb” has been placed inside the Commonwealth Games Village.

Amid protests from the teachers’ representatives, Delhi University’s apex decision-making body, the Executive Council (EC), on Monday decided to institute a three-member panel to further pin-point blame in the April radiation exposure case.
The decision was taken following the discussion on the Pancholi Committee report in the EC.

Giving a jolt to the prosecution and the CBI, Ram Avtar Sharma, a prosecution witness on Monday turned hostile while deposing before the court of additional sessions judge (ASJ) Sunita Gupta, claiming that he had not given shelter to one of the victims in connection with a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case in which senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar is an accused.

People in south Delhi and adjoining areas will have to bear with the more traffic restrictions from Tuesday morning as Delhi police has decided to close the Surajkund Road for a week due to shooting competition at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range falling on this crucial link road.

The dengue menace continues unabated in the city with 86 fresh cases being reported on Monday. The total number of cases have now reached 3,641 in the city and seven persons have died so far.

A 27-year-old man was injured when he accidentally fell in the pool in the house of Navy War Room leak case accused Abhishek Verma at Vasant Kunj in south Delhi on Sunday.

Delhi BJP on Monday criticised chief minister Sheila Dikshit for allegedly making attempts to draw political mileage out of the praise of the Commonwealth Games Village, criticised earlier for lack of sanitation. The BJP also alleged breach of protocol against the Organising Committee for not inviting city mayor Prithvi Raj Sawhney for the inaugural ceremony on Sunday.

British test-tube baby pioneer Robert G. Edwards was on Monday awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine. His pioneering work had led to the birth of the world’s first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, in 1978.

Political parties on Monday prevailed on the the Election Commission(EC) to address all their fears over the use of Electronic Voting Machines(EVMs). The EC, which met with all political parties to discuss four issues namely — the use of Electronic Voting Machines(EVMs), the phenomenon of paid news, the use of money power in

The Congress Working Committee will be meeting here on Tuesday at a time when the BJP is trying to get political mileage on the Ayodhya issue while the RJD and Samawadi Party are expected to intensify their atttack on these two national parties in the coming days on t he same issue.