Two separate incidents of robbery were reported from the national capital in the last 24 hours.
In the first incident, eight masked men allegedly barged into a jewellery shop in Mayapuri area and held the staff hostage before decamping with jewellery worth Rs 20 lakhs.

The MCD on Monday resolved to request the Centre for giving it the task of regularising the 1,639 unauthorised colonies, a promise made by the Delhi government before the November 2008 Assembly elections. Meanwhile, in the Delhi Assembly, the government said that it had sent a list of 680 colonies to the MCD for sanction and scrutiny of their layout plans.

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday called upon the police to dispel the sense of general insecurity in the capital, while asserting that she wanted elected representatives to have some say in policing. The Delhi Assembly on Monday took up a discussion on the issue of deteriorating law and order in the capital, after the police commissioner Y.S. Dadwal’s presence was ensured in the House.

Amidst scathing attack by the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly over road cave-in incidents, chief minister Sheila Dikshit appealed to the BJP “not to make things worse but join hands to make the Commonwealth Games a great success”.

It is not only the Members of Parliament who are to get a major hike in salaries. The Delhi MLAs are also likely to get a raise in remuneration. The Delhi Cabinet has given its consent for 200 per cent hike in the salaries of the MLAs, Assembly Speaker, chief minister, ministers and Leader of the Opposition keeping in view the growing expenses and increasing inflation.

The Yamuna continued to swell and the water level is likely to increase with Haryana set to release more water from the Hathnikund barrage into the river. Nearly 1,000 people have been evacuated from the low-lying areas in the city. In some areas, villagers could be seen working with the administration to construct temporary bandhs in order to prevent water from entering their villages.

While the Opposition parties are seeing red over the dilution of the suppliers liability, Sudhinder Thakur, executive director of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL), has warned that across the world the operators right to recourse is limited to wilful act or gross negligence by the supplier.

In a move that could set to rest all speculations about the alliance in Tamil Nadu, the All-India Congress Committee on Monday announced that the DMK-Congress combine would fight the forthcoming Assembly polls in the state together. It also sounded a warning to those who are speaking out of turn on the party’s alliance with the

The Congress is planing to hold the AICC plenary in November this year. Though it has yet to begin an exercise of shortlisting venues for the full session, Mumbai figures prominently in the list.

In a bid to placate the agitating MPs over hike in their salary, the government on Monday cleared a proposal to increase by another Rs 10,000 in their monthly allowances, which they will be getting over and above the amount announced last week.