As expected, industrialist, Dr Vijay Mallya has made it to the Rajya Sabha along with M. Venkaiah Naidu and Aayanur Manjunath of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Oscar Fernandes of the Congress party.

The body of a 75-year-old man was found dead in his house at Kalkaji in southeast Delhi on Thursday. The police is not suspecting any foul play. According to the police, the body of Ramprakash Sehgal, a resident of Vaishali Apartments in Kalkaji Extension, was discovered around 2 pm. Mr Sehgal’s neighbour, Ravi Kumar, noticed that

After monuments and other heritage sites, the Intach, a non-profit organisation dedicated to conservation of art and heritage, has now set its eyes on conserving textile heritage.

Sports teachers in Delhi University held a protest over conducting centralised sports trials in the university. The authorities reiterated saying that the trials have been centralised in the interest of the students.

The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Thursday asked for a report from the Delhi police on the alleged torture of a girl along with her friend to death for wanting to marry against the wishes of her family.

With the arrest of six men form the East Angad Nagar area, the Delhi Police’s crime branch has claimed to have solved a murder case which happened in the Preet Vihar area earlier this month.

The Union Cabinet on Thursday cleared the NDMC Amendment Bill 2010, which seeks to make the member of Parliament from New Delhi constituency a member of the New Delhi Municipal Council with voting rights. Also, the total number of MLAs as members of the council will be reduced from three to two. The bill, seeking to amend the NDMC Act (1994), will be tabled in Parliament during its monsoon session.

Following the hike in CNG price, the autorickshaw unions predictably raised the tempo for increasing the fares and threatened to go on strike from Monday if the government did not increase the fares.

With controversy over former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson’s exit from India after the Bhopal gas tragedy continued to hog the limelight, the Congress on Wednesday said the escape could have happened due to a “systemic failure”.

A hike in the fuel prices are not likely in the near term. With inflation in double digits, it has become difficult for the government to take a decision on the fuel price hike.
Even the stock markets have discounted any fuel price hike and shares of the PSU oil marketing companies were battered on the stock exchanges on Tuesday after the inflation figures came out.