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Man, his 2 sons held for murder

The Delhi police has arrested a man and his two sons in connection with the murder of a youth in Vasant Kunj last Thursday.
The accused, identified as Bachchu Prasad and his sons, Laxman Kumar and Pintu Kumar, who live at Kapil Farmhouse, Church Road, in Vasant Kunj were arrested for the murder of Pradeep Paswan, 20, whose decomposed body was recovered from ridge area in Rajokri on May 5.

Kani told to be in court every day

Even as the DMK apparently disowned former communications minister A. Raja and rallied behind beleaguered Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi, a member of the party’s first family, trouble for her continued on Saturday with the special CBI court asking her and Kalaignar TV MD Sharad Kumar to appear before it on a daily basis. The court,

Man hangs self from ceiling fan

A 45-year old security official posted at the Safdarjung Airport allegedly committed suicide at his south Delhi residence on Saturday evening.
The police said that the deceased, identified as Mahender Kapoor, a security official at Safdarjung Airport, was found hanging from the ceiling fan at his Air India Colony,

CBI summons 2 BJP ministers

The Central Bureau of Investigation will question two senior Bharatiya Janata Party ministers to try and determine if they were the intended recipients of a `1.5-crore bribe intercepted during a dramatic entrapment that led to the arrest of chief parliamentary secretary Raj Khurana (also BJP) and an accomplice on Wednesday.

Prostitution racket busted, kingpin held

The crime branch of the Delhi police has busted an inter-state flesh trade racket whose kingpin, an MBA, was arrested from Shalimar Bagh on Friday.
The police said the accused, Sudhanshu Gupta, 32, who was running an inter-state sex racket, was arrested from Shalimar Bagh on Friday following an anonymous tip-off that he would come to the area to strike a deal.

Lokpal panel agrees on basic law principles

With having consensus on the two basic principles of transparency in selection process and autonomy, the joint Lokpal bill drafting committee agreed to move forward to resolve the two other contentious issues of bringing Prime Minister and judiciary in the ambit of the proposed legislation. The two sides — government and civil society members — decided to take up the issues at its fourth meeting scheduled for May 23.

AI low fares to woo back flyers

The government had made it clear to the Air India domestic pilot union leaders that there was no question of agreeing to any extra interim financial benefits immediately and the futility of continuing the strike prompted the pilots to call off their 10 day-old strike as they resolved to “live to fight another day”. However, the government did tell

Relief in DMK as order reserved

With the CBI special court reserving its verdict till May 14 on chief minister M. Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi’s petition objecting to her remand in jail, the DMK camp on Saturday heaved a sigh of relief albeit wondering whether it would be a permanent or temporary one.

SC: No immunity even if swindled cash repaid

In the backdrop of increasing financial scams in the country, the Supreme Court has in an important verdict ruled that a person cannot claim immunity from prosecution in such cases merely on returning the swindled money as the law of the land does not “exonerate” a person from criminal liability once a prima facie case is made out against him.

ED prepares to question Kani, 4 others in 2G case

The Enforcement Directorate (ED), probing the 2G spectrum scam, is now preparing to question MP Kanimozhi, daughter of DMK supremo M. Karunanidhi and four others, in connection with alleged transfer of `200 crores to Chennai-based Kalaignar TV by a company linked telecom promoter Shahid Balwa on May 12. The ED is also

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