The petrol pump dealers in the capital have withdrawn their proposed indefinite strike from Monday June 14 in protest against hike in VAT on diesel that has led to a sharp drop in sales in the city.

With the arrest of a 30-year-old man, the Delhi police on Saturday claimed to have solved the murder case of a senior citizen in East Vinod Nagar area of east Delhi.

A London court has reportedly asked the government of India to explain the delay in the extradition request for Mr Ravi Shankaran, the prime suspect in the Navy war room leak case made by the investigating agency.

Government employees earning Rs 10,000 a month, people with electricity and water connections, bank accounts and LIC policies and those paying income-tax will be automatically excluded from the list of poor persons under new methodology for the 2010 BPL census.

The heat on former Madhya Pradesh chief minister and senior Congress leader Arjun Singh is increasing by the day. His own party on Friday appeared to be pointing a finger towards him for allowing Mr Warren Anderson, the chairman of Union Carbide Corp. at the time of the Bhopal gas disaster, to flee to the US.

Entering your vehicle in the proposed dedicated lanes for Commonwealth Games can result in a hefty fine. The Delhi police has introduced a special legislation to this effect.

The Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) and the Slum and JJ wing of the MCD are in consultation over ways to ensure that children do not fall victim to trafficking, prostitution and child labour during Commonwealth Games 2010.

The Delhi high court has dismissed the appeal of a man, who was sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment by a lower court here, after holding him guilty of killing his beloved at a hotel in Nabi Karim area in Central Delhi seven years ago. The victim, Sweety, a married woman, had eloped with Mahender Kumar Maurya. The prosecution alleged that Sweety was allegedly murdered by Maurya and the body was found in a suitcase in a Nabi Karim hotel.

A 28-year-old aspiring fashion model has alleged that she was raped in Greater Kailash area by a man who promised her employment with a leading fashion brand.
Police officials said the victim, who lives in F block of Greater Kailash I, alleged that she met the accused Umesh Aggarwal, a fashion photographer, through a social networking site last year and Umesh had assured the victim to help her get a break with an international fashion brand.

A day after the Delhi police approached a city court seeking more time to finish the ongoing probe against the four accused in the TV journalist Soumya Vishwanathan murder case, in a dramatic U-turn on Friday it withdrew the plea and filed the chargesheet against the accused.