The Delhi University raised its cut-off for aspiring students by atleast three percent this year and B. Com (Honours) and Economics (Honours) continued to be the most sought after courses.

Convicts lodged in jail could soon work as normal office-goers from 10 am to 5 pm, spend time with their family members and again come back to their cell to serve the sentence, with a city court suggesting the Delhi

A veteran journalist, Jyotirmoy Dey (57), editor (crime and investigations) at the tabloid Mid-Day, was shot dead near his residence in Powai by four unidentified motorcycle-borne assailants on Saturday afternoon.

In three separate incidents three bodies have been found in the city on Saturday. Body of a four-year-old girl was found near railway tracks in South Delhi’s Sriniwaspuri area. The body was unclad and also had injury marks. A senior police official said that there are evidences of an attempt of sexual attack.

A Delhi district consumer forum has slapped a fine of `25,000 on the city’s power distribution firm, BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd, for raising an inflated electricity bill of `1.17 lakh against an user and lodging a false power theft case against him.

Gurmeet Singh, a lookalike of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, with the cast members of Act 498A — The Wedding Gift at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi on Saturday. PHOTO: Biplab Banerjee

The slow process of appointing the judges of high judiciary has badly affected the functioning of several high courts with the vacancy level in some of them going up to 45 per cent and country’s biggest high court at Allahabad is working almost with one-third of the sanctioned strength of judges.

Oscar-winner Colin Firth, England cricket captain Andrew Strauss, Nobel laureate Robert G. Edwards, rock star Bryan Ferry and television presenter Bruce Forsyth were on Saturday included in Queen Elizabeth II’s birthday honours list.

The Janata Dal (United) on Saturday demanded immediate removal of Union textile minister Dayanidhi Maran from the government in the wake of allegations of a “quid pro quo” in awarding spectrum licences to Aircel.

Ready is en route to becoming a blockbuster, netting close to `70 crores in the first week itself. Many are now speculating `100 crores which will make the film amongst the top money-spinners in Bollywood, after the likes of 3 Idiots and Dabangg.