A city court has asked noted actor and TV artist Raghuvir Yadav to pay a monthly alimony of `40,000 to his estranged wife, pointing that successes of his recent movies Peepli Live and Gandhi to Hitler indicate he is doing well in commercial cinema.

On Wednesday, the Delhi police claimed to have seized 5,340 kg of crackers worth `50 lakh stored illegally in three godowns and arrested three persons in this connection.

Descendants of Dr Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India, are slowly losing hope of bringing his 18K pink gold Rolex Oyster Perpetual wristwatch back to India.

Three persons, including a toddler, were crushed to death in three separate road accidents in the city.

The National Investiga-tion Agency, now investigating the September 7 Delhi high court blast, claims to have made some progress — with the recovery of three mobile phones, SIM cards and documents related to money transfer from

Artistes from the National Theatre Group of Ethiopia perform at IIC Experience in New Delhi on Wednesday. — SONDEEP SHANKAR

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said Wednes-day that the CAG had not exceeded its jurisdiction. “I am making it clear I don’t think the CAG is exceeding its jurisdiction (as) the basic responsibility of the CAG is to identify if there is any lapse,” Mr Mukherjee said at the economic editors conference.

There was turmoil in Team Anna on Tuesday with two key members, social activist P.V. Rajagopal and “waterman” Rajinder Singh, deciding to dissociate themselves from the anti-graft crusader’s core committee.

In a master stroke, UP chief minister Mayawati is now preparing to convene a brief special session of the state legislature early next month to pass a resolution seeking trifurcation of Uttar Pradesh.

Extending support to the Occupy Wall Street movement that has spread across Europe and other parts of the world from the United States, the CPI(M) on Tuesday said it was necessary to step up and broaden the struggles against the neo-liberal policies in India.