The Delhi police on Friday said that alleged LeT terrorist Abdul Karim Tunda revealed that he purchased explosive from a shop in Tilak Bazar, Khari Baoli, north Delhi.

The police on Friday said it has arrested four persons, including two women, in the double murder case in which a 90-year-old woman and her 55-year-old daughter were killed in Laxmi Nagar area.

The government on Friday informed the Rajya Sabha that names of 13.58 lakh voters in the national capital have been deleted from voters list by the Election Commission. To a separate question asked during Question Hour, the government clarified that the Aadhaar card is not mandatory to avail of subsidies under government schemes, including on domestic cooking gas.

The police on Friday arrested three persons, who allegedly killed a 25-year-old man in Safdarjung Enclave. A senior police official said that the accused, Sumit Katcher, Rahul, alias Bobby, and Vijay, alias Sanjay, were arrested following a tip-off.

Delhiites will be able to travel from east to south and central Delhi in 10 minutes as the proposal of connecting Barapullah elevated road with Mayur Vihar Phase I has been approved on Thursday. Lieutenant-governor Najeeb Jung approved the project at a meeting of Unified Traffic and Transport Infrastructure Planning and Engineering Centre. The project will cost around `700 crores. It will start in 2014 and finish in year 2018.

The stage is gradually being set for a showdown between Uttar Pradesh’s Akhilesh Yadav government and the organisers of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s proposed “84 Kosi Parikrama Yatra”.

Setting the stage for the introduction of the Food Security Bill in the Lok Sabha — which the government has been unable to do since early this week with anti-Telangana MPs stalling proceedings — Speaker Meira Kumar on Friday announced the suspension of 12 members (eight from the Congress, four from the TDP) for at least five sittings.

Despite many ministers, MPs and leaders opposed to it, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar ruled Friday that the House will sit on Saturday. But the Food Security Bill will be taken up for discussion and passage only on Monday.

As angry protests erupted across the country over the gangrape of a 22-year-old photojournalist in Mumbai, the police arrested one of the five accused in the case. The hunt for the remaining four rapists was continuing at the time of going to press.

Despite the controversy generated over frequent Chinese transgressions into Indian territory in Ladakh and Arunachal, India and China have resolved to conduct the third edition of their joint military exercises in Chengdu in China from November 4 to 14.