The crime branch has arrested three persons in the city for allegedly running an inter-state drug trafficking racket.
The police said the gang leader, Sagar, 19, used to fly to Kolkata to strike deal for ganja. “Sagar was arrested with his associates Sanjay, 26, and Tejvir Singh, 22, from Outer Ring Road. We recovered 137 kg of ganja worth `7 lakhs from their possession,” DCP (crime) Ashok Chand said.

The Thar desert is set to become the hub for solar projects which are expected to generate upto 2,100 gigawatts of solar power. Already 35,000-km land has been set aside for both PV and thermal solar farms which are being set up by small firms with plant sizes of as little as five MW.

Investigations into the murder of teenager Shobhit Modi have revealed that the deceased maintained contact with a close group of “friends” not known to his family.
“Our investigations suggest that Shobhit maintained contact with a close group of “friends” who are not known to either his family or most of his other friends. We are in

Union law and justice minister M. Veerappa Moily has assured the parliamentary consultative committee on law and justice that the government planned to implement legal reforms to provide people with an efficient and prompt justice delivery system, with lower pendency of cases.

In a move to broker a compromise between chief minister Sheila Dikshit and agitating Delhi Congress office-bearers and councillors, the Delhi Cabinet on Wednesday has sought a fresh proposal from the urban development department on splitting the MCD into three units in place of five smaller bodies as proposed earlier.

The Congress on Wednesday strongly defended AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi’s claim that 74 mounds of ash containing human remains have been found in Bhatta Parsaul village of Greater Noida.

With intense heat conditions persisting in the city, the power demand shot up to 4,823 MW, the highest ever, on Wednesday. The private power distribution companies (discoms) had to resort to load shedding which resulted in long hours of powercuts in various areas. The powercuts led to water crisis in several localities.

The Orissa government on Wednesday resumed land acquisition for the proposed 12-million-tonne Posco steel plant project near Paradip in Orissa’s Jagatsinghpur district. At least 11 persons, whose betel farms were acquired by the district administration, were handed over cheques worth `11 lakhs.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, on Wednesday, served an ultimatum on the BSP government.
“Bhatta Parsaul is merely the beginning. Just see what we do in the future. We will fight from every village and turn them (BSP) out. There is no dearth of issues in UP and I have ample time. I will go to every nook and corner of UP this time,” he said while addressing the UPCC convention in Varanasi on Wednesday.

Thousands of affected people followed Punjab’s best known eco-activist Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal, on Wednesday, to block the intensely polluted Kala Sanghian Drain which is known to dump lakhs of tons of poisonous industrial effluents directly into the river Sutlej.