The residence of a senior government official was burgled and later set ablaze by unidentified assailants on Saturday night with the police suspecting the involvement of the infamous juvenile leader of the “steal-arson gang” who recently escaped from a rehabilitation home in north Delhi.

A 40-year-old shop owner was shot dead in celebratory firing during a marriage ceremony in west Delhi on Saturday night.
Police officials said the incident took place at around 11.30 pm at an MCD community hall in Budela village of Vikaspuri.

Union human resource development ministry may allow states to relax the minimum qualification rules for teaching job in schools. This is being done in an effort to reduce problems being faced in the implementation of the Right to Education Act faced due to shortage of professionally qualified teachers.

The mutilated body of an unidentified woman was found in Rajouri Garden area of west Delhi on Saturday evening with the police claiming that the deceased was run over by at least 12 vehicles.

The civil aviation ministry is planning to increase the length of the runway at Mangalore airport by another 1,000 ft from the present 8,000 ft to 9,000 ft. This comes in the wake of the tragedy at Mangalore on May 22 when an Air India Express aircraft crashed after landing at the airport.

Essar Group will buy 59.13 per cent stake in IT firm AGC Networks from Avaya for Rs 206.19 crore. The deal would catapult the Essar Group’s IT and BPO arm Aegis among the top five IT solution providers along with IBM, Wipro and TCS in the country.

Even as the state is yet to recover from the Mangalore air crash, 30 passengers on board a bus were burnt alive after it hit a pole and fell into a gorge at Nayakanahatti Cross, near Challakere town, Chitradurga district early on Sunday.

Hinting at growing warmth in relations between the Ambani brothers, Anil Ambani stayed at the guest house owned by elder brother Mukesh Amb-ani’s Reliance Industries at Tirumala on his way to the Lord Venkateswara temple on Sunday.

The Central Reserve Police Force is likely to create an additional post of inspector general of police (operations) in every state where the force is deployed for anti-Naxal operations.

Cairn India will step up its oil production from its Barmer oil fields to 1,30,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd) from June end.
The increased production will mean a huge forex savings for the country and to some extent help to reduce India’s dependence on foreign oil.