Congress president Sonia Gandhi poses with a bow and arrow as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and vice-president Hamid Ansari look on before the burning of the effigy of Ravan at Ramlila Maidan on Dusse

The Delhi police rescued 53 child labourers from two northeast Delhi localities on Tuesday and arrested seven people in this connection. According to the members of NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan, the police conducted simultaneous raids in Sultanpuri and Mangolpuri.

The Delhi police has arrested a man, wanted in a MCOCA case as well as in a case of abducting his own lawyer two months ago.

Old-age pensioners attaining age of 75 and above in the city will now get a monthly pension of `1,500 instead of existing `1,000.

Road accidents in different parts of the city claimed four lives in the past 24 hours. Four youth riding a bike rammed into the railing of Barapulla flyover on Monday night.

Rejecting Gandhian social activist Anna Hazare’s modus operandi to fight corruption, AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said the battle against the menace could be fought “only through the political system”.

The BJP on Tuesday maintained anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare did not have full details of arrested IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt’s case, when he made remarks against the Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi. Defending Mr Bhatt’s arrest,

Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare, asked whether he feared he would be targeted as a BJP supporter, said those who raise such allegations should be sent to a mental hospital. “In my whole life, not a single instance has shown that I had been associated with the BJP or RSS. I have never attended a single meeting (of the BJP or RSS),” he claimed.

In a development that could have far reaching consequences for former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, the Karnataka high court on Tuesday has set aside an interim order granted in favour of Mr Yeddyurappa staying proceedings before the Lokayukta court in two separate complaints related to corruption cases.

Malayalam poet K. Satchidanandan and Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi have figured in the list of probables for this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature that is to be announced in a few days. The list, where Satchidanandan (33/1) ranks 18, has been put out on British betting firm Ladbrokes’ website.