The police investigating the murder of Narendra Dabholkar has spotted the two bike-borne assailants in a CCTV grab of Cosmos Bank on Omkareshwar Bridge when they were riding away after committing the murder. However, their faces cannot be identified as the zoom function causes the picture to blur. The Mumbai crime branch, too, is investigating the firearm angle in the murder.

The nearly two month-long Amarnath yatra ended on Wednesday, coinciding with Raksha Bandhan. As many 3.54 lakh pilgrims from different parts of the country paid obeisance at the 12,729-foot-high cave-shrine dedicated to Lord Shiva in Kashmir Himalayas during the yatra period.

In the latest case of caste-related controversy in Orissa, over a dozen of dalit students have allegedly left a government-run upper primary school for good. The students dropped out to register their protest against the removal of a dalit cook by the school management.

The Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) examination conducted by Barkatullah University in the state capital has come under cloud and the university’s credibility is at rock bottom with the unearthing of a fake examination scam and the arrest of its kingpin Sajjan Singh Parmar and a dentist, Devvrat Nayak, who were both produced in court on Wednesday and sent to police remand.

Experts believe that accumulation of debris from large-scale construction and mining on riverbeds is one of the key reasons why rivers in Uttarakhand are changing their course.

The city came to a standstill after heavy rain on Tuesday afternoon. The roads were flooded and subsequently huge traffic jams brought trouble to Delhiites after heavy rain, thunderstorms and lightening hit the city during the day.

With the launch of food security scheme in the capital, the city government is hopeful for a fourth consecutive win in the upcoming Assembly elections. Chief minister Sheila Dikshit described the launch of food security scheme in Delhi as a historic event.

Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) bomb expert Abdul Karim Tunda was on Tuesday assaulted by a man, said to be Hindu Sena activist, in Patiala House court complex while being taken to be produced in the court of metropolitan magistrate Jay Thareja.

The police on Tuesday said that it rescued a 15-year-old who was trafficked, gangraped and sold for `8 lakhs. The police arrested a pimp from Darjeeling, West Bengal. A senior police official said the victim was kidnapped from Hazrat Nizamuddin area of southeast Delhi around nine months ago.

A day after a 62-year-old businessman and his three servants were found brutally murdered in Vivek Vihar area of east Delhi, the crime branch of the Delhi police detained four persons, including a woman, in this connection.