Fears about India’s ability to host the 2010 Commonwealth Games were realised on Tuesday afternoon when an under-construction footbridge near Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium came crashing down, leaving 27 labourers injured, four of them critically.

In the news for all wrong reasons, the collapse of a foot bridge outside the main venue for 2010 Commonwealth Games on Tuesday added yet another blot to the Commonwealth Games, which have been embroiled in a series of controversies and corruption charges.

A property dealer in Old Delhi was held by the Delhi police’s special cell in connection with the firing incident on Taiwanese nationals on Sunday outside old Delhi’s Jama Masjid with investigations s

Carrying out terror attacks by sending armed men on stolen motorbikes could be the new modus operandi of Indian Mujahideen, which is believed to be regrouping in southern states of India.

A lone Delhi police constable, carrying a lathi and chasing two “heavily armed” gunmen who had opened fire on Taiwanese nationals outside Jama Masjid on Sunday morning perhaps summed up the security p

A 65-year-old woman was drugged and robbed in a bus near the Commonwealth Games building in the heart of the city, police sources said on Monday.
The victim, Inderjeet Narang, a retired employee of Union health ministry, told the police that she had gone to State Bank of Patiala near Shastri Bhawan. “At around 3 pm, she boarded a bus from near the CWG office. She was probably drugged and robbed in the bus,” a police source said.

The body of a 80-year-old woman, who is reported to have passed away in November last year, was recovered by cops from her south Delhi residence on Saturday following a minor scuffle with her “mentall

With the Commonwealth Games just 40 days away, the much touted project of issuing biometric “non-cloneable” identity cards to the forces before the event begins here in October has hit a roadblock, with a majority of Delhi police personnel showing “lack of interest” in furnishing their personal details required for the cards. Highly-placed

A 23-year-old former employee of a multinational bank was assaulted and raped, allegedly by a colleague, in a guesthouse in southeast Delhi’s Sunlight Colony on Wednesday.

In a suspected case of death due to corporeal punishment, a 15-year-old student committed suicide by jumping in front of a train near Hazrat Nizamud-din railway station in south Delhi after being allegedly harassed by his school staff.