Every second child in India is emotionally abused, two thirds children are physically abused and 53.22 per cent are being sexually abused, said a Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) report citing government data.

A 74-year-old man was charred to death after a fire broke out in a house in Greater Kailash area of south Delhi.
The incident took place in M Block on Thursday night. A senior police official said the deceased was identified as Kapil Dev Aryan. He was living as a tenant along with his wife for past several years.

The North Delhi Municipal Corporation has slapped a property tax notice on Asaram Bapu’s ashram here for alleged non-payment of property tax since 2004 but refused to disclose the due amount.

The policemen posted with the PCR wing of the Delhi police chased criminals in a car, opened 10 rounds of fire and managed to nab one. The incident took place near National Market in Mianwali Nagar area of West Delhi at around 8 am.

A guessing game has begun on a poll budget of BJP’s election campaign committee chief Narendra Modi in the political circles.

After doling out unemployment allowances, laptops, saris and blankets, the Akhilesh Yadav government is now preparing to distribute cycles.

Africa’s first female President and a powerful and respected voice in the continent and in international fora, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, arrives in the capital on September 9 on a five-day state visit.

In a please-all exercise ahead of Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, the Congress on Friday appointed four vice-presidents and an equal number of general secretaries and 76 secretaries representing all sections in the faction-ridden state unit of the party.

The Delhi high court on Friday rejected the plea of former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala for extension of interim bail on medical grounds. Saying that Chautala doesn’t require further hospitalisation, the high court asked him to surrender before Tihar jail authorities on September 17.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has told leaders of the world’s 20 most economically powerful nations here that India condemns the use of chemical weapons in Syria and elsewhere, but stressed the need restraint in initiating punitive action again the Syrian regime till the United Nations inspectors submit the results of their investigations.