With only few months left for the Assembly elections, the city Congress government is trying its best to garner votes from recently regularised unauthorised colonies. The city government is planning to clear a proposal in the Cabinet to speed up the halted development works in such colonies. Sources said the government is planning to start development work which is visible immediately.

A petty quarrel among teenagers over kite flying took an ugly turn on Saturday leaving one dead and another injured. The incident was reported from Harsh Vihar, outer Delhi, where one Rajan Chand, 16, was beaten to death by a group of teenagers after a quarrel over a kite tangle. Dinesh Kumar, 15, a friend of the deceased, also received injuries.

A juvenile has been arrested for his alleged involvement in an armed car robbery, the police said on Sunday.
The police got information about an armed car robbery on July 21 near the Rithala Metro Station.

Delhi Metro’s Dwarka Sec-21 and Noida City Centre Blue Line will deploy its first eight-coach train into commuter services on Monday. “This eight coach train will be introduced from Dwarka Metro station at 8 am on Monday,” a DMRC official said.

The Delhi high court has rejected a student’s plea challenging his expulsion by Jamia Millia Islamia for allegedly using fraudulent means to help students get admission in the BDS course.

The ongoing cold war between Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi and his health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma came to the fore with the latter claiming to have the support of more than 40 legislators who, he claimed, stood by him despite repeated attempts to “isolate him” in state politics.

The BJP’s plans to play the caste card gainfully in Bihar’s caste-driven politics owing to Narendra Modi’s supposed backward caste descent got an unexpected foothold on Sunday when two former JD(U) MPs supported the state BJP’s emphatic call to project Mr Modi as the PM candidate.

Terming party’s Suraj Sankalp Yatra a success, the BJP leaders have been engaged in gathering feedback from the party’s ranks. The state BJP president, Ms Vasundhara Raje, is scheduled to conduct a feedback session from August 22 in Dholpur from her residence.

Trying to bring back the focus on the anti-corruption Lokpal Bill, the government is working hard to push the legislation for consideration and passage in the current session of Parliament.

Minister of state for parliamentary affairs Rajiv Shukla said that the government will try its level best to ensure passage of the landmark food bill on August 20. “We will try to resolve the matter through talks... We will push it (the bill) hard on the 20th,” he said.