The crime branch of Delhi police recovered at least 3,000 kg of illegal crackers in raids on Monday. The police has deputed a special team to tackle the illegal crackers’ business in the city.

With 14 more people testing positive for the virus, the number of dengue cases in the city this year rose to 450. However, this figure is less compared to dengue cases reported last October, said MCD health committee chairman, V.K. Monga on Monday.

The United States has deployed hundreds of troops along the Paki-stan-Afghanistan border near the tribal North Waziristan Agency as fears grow of an attack on the Haqqani network, security sources said.

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit admitted on Monday that Delhi has an awful gender imbalance. She underlined the need to empower women by imparting skills to them. Ms Dikshit said that equitable society is the need of this era where everyone’s voice is heard.

The result of the much-hyped Hisar Lok Sabha byelection was much on expected lines: the sympathy factor and a strategic electoral tieup with the BJP helping Haryana Janhit Congress candidate Kuldeep Bishnoi to defeat his

Bihar’s ruling JD(U)-BJP alliance on Monday retained the Daraunda Assembly seat as voters preferred the newly-married wife of a former MLA’s son, who was denied a party ticket for the criminal cases pending against him, to candidates of the Opposition RJD-LJP alliance and the Congress.

An upbeat BJP on Monday claimed that the bypoll results of Hisar, Khadakwasla and Daraunda are a “reminder” to the Congress-led UPA that people voted against them because of its inefficiency to keep a check on corruption.

Gandhian activist Anna Hazare on Monday warned the Congress that if the party failed to pass the Jan Lokpal Bill in the Winter Session of Parliament, it would be “he himself” campaigning against the party in the upcoming Assembly elections and not just the Team Anna members as had been the case in the Hisar Lok Sabha byelection.

Congress spokesperson Renuka Chowdhury brushed aside claims that the defeat in Hisar, Khadakwasla and Banswada will affect the coming Assembly polls in five states, including Uttar Pradesh. She, however, noted that the result

The outcome of the byelections — one Lok Sabha and three Assembly — have come as a morale booster for the Opposition parties but the Congress feels it will not have a bearing on about half-a-dozen Assembly elections to be held next year.