Four alleged militants belonging to a Manipuri extremist outfit have been arrested by the special cell of the Delhi police. The accused were remanded to two-day police custody by a city court here.

They were elected with much fanfare in the 2007 Assembly elections. They arrived in their Sunday best to take the oath but after that, they have almost gone missing and are now in the “wanted” list.

The two tenants, who had allegedly killed their blind landlords late on Monday night at Vivek Vihar in east Delhi, have been arrested by the east Delhi police. The police said the accused were miffed because the landlord objected to them bringing girls in their accommodation.

The choice of site for the Commonwealth Games village had come under sharp criticism from the environmentalists who believed it was sacrilege to encroach upon the flood plains of Yamuna river. While they were silenced, the MCD has “discovered” a new reason to say that the site of the Village is not good. Reason, mosquitoes that

The Bhakra-Beas Management Board has sounded its intent to increase the discharge of water following continuing rainfall leading to unacceptably high levels in its reservoirs.

Traffic was badly hit on Tuesday evening with water-logging reported from many places as it rained in several parts of the city. The MCD control room maintained that it had received more than 200 complaints of water logging. Though the weather department said that the capital received only 1 mm rain between 8.30 am to 5.30 pm, the

The Bihar government has joined issue with the civil aviation ministry over removal of air safety obstacles at the Patna airport, pointing out that much of the action sought by the ministry has to be taken at the civil aviation ministry’s initiative. Expressing surprise over a recent communication by the DGCA, the Bihar government has now written to the ministry following a high-level meeting held at Patna.

Asking the government to create conducive atmosphere to resolve the Maoist problem, the Supreme Court on Wednesday sought the response of Chhattisgarh to a proposal for setting up an expert committee under former Delhi court Chief Justice A.P. Shah to examine various aspects of the issue.

A tragedy struck salvage operations on Wed-nesday when a fisherman in a boat carrying media personnel fell into the sea. The Indian Coast Guard had to deploy a helicopter to rescue a youth who had gone missing, but could not find his body till late in the evening. The Indian Coast Guard issued an advisory to the media not to venture into the sea.

Secret cells of CPI Maoists are operating in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. If they are not neutralised the situation would go out of control, said director-general of police R.R. Girish Kumar.