A 28-year-old man was abducted by unknown persons in a car from Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg on Monday evening. The abductors have demanded `50 lakhs in ransom from his family for his safe release.

“Dear Omar Abdullah. why are you wasting your career on Twitter. You are CM of a state and need to be careful while speaking”. This message on social networking site Twitter sparked a flurry of conversations last month, denouncing

The Delhi BJP is in no mood to accept the trifurcation of MCD. Delhi BJP chief Vijender Gupta said that the decision of trifurcation of MCD is a hasty decision and fully inspired by politics.

A 35-year-old physically-challenged woman was allegedly raped by a 29-year-old youth in central Delhi’s Chandni Mahal area on Monday evening.
The police said the incident took place late on Monday evening when the victim

Finally after five months of suspense and uncertainty, the trifurcation of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) was cleared on Wednesday. Chief minister Sheila Dikshit announced the trifurcation after a meeting with Union home minister P. Chidambaram.

Supporters of the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh at a protest rally in New Delhi on Wednesday. — Biplab Banerjee

Acknowledging the significant influence of deras over the electorate, all political parties are eyeing for the support of about dozen such deras in Punjab. With the Assembly elections due in February there is a beeline of leaders outside the gates of these deras (sects).

The Supreme Court on Wednesday though declined to admit the appeals against the Andhra Pradesh high court order for the CBI and other agencies probe against TDP leader and former CM Chandrababu Naidu and some of his party colleagues in alleged assets and money laundering cases but the top court gave them substantial relief asking the HC to give them proper hearing.

Aggressive selling by FIIs on Wednesday after a disappointing manufacturing survey from China and weaker US growth pulled down both the Sensex and Nifty to their two-year closing lows.

After two days of uncertainty, Gujjar leaders called off their protest march to the state capital Jaipur to press their demand for quota. The agitating Gujjar leaders said the march has been postponed after consultation with Col. K.S. Bainsla, who is under treatment at a private hospital in Jaipur. “We are calling off our