A 30-year-old man allegedly raped his 21-year-old cousin twice after making an MMS. He also demanded `5 lakh from the victim threatening that he would upload her MMS on the Internet if his demand was not met. The victim narrated the incident to her husband who approached the police.

A row has erupted over the “conflicting figures” at the South Delhi Municipal Corporation on the issue of numbers of students availing the midday meal.

Despite strong opposition from environment organisations to cutting down trees for developmental projects, the department concerned claims that projects are important for making Delhi a world-class city and they will help protecting environment in different ways after the completion of work.

Delhi transport minister Ramakant Goswami on Tuesday inaugurated DTC bus service on special three routes linking north campus of Delhi University

Two persons, including a four-year-old, were crushed to death in two separate road accidents in the city on Tuesday.

About 80 workers of Bhartiya Janta Yuva Morcha (BJYM) were detained from Krishna Menon Marg on Tuesday when they were marching towards defence minister A.K. Antony’s residence.

A former lieutenant of Saddam Hussein underwent a liver transplant at a city hospital. He was diagnosed with liver cancer with 90 per cent damage. His son donated his partial organ to save the life of the ailing lieutenant.

In a daring and apparently well-planned cross-border raid by a team of heavily-armed Pakistan-based terrorists and suspected Pakistan Army “border action team” commandos, five jawans of the Indian Army on patrol were ambushed and shot dead in the Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir in the early hours of Tuesday.

Chief economic adviser Raghuram Rajan will be the new governor of the Reserve Bank. At 50, he will one of the RBI’s youngest governors when he takes charge on September 5. His appointment is for three years.

Both Houses of Parliament were rocked by uproar and adjournments over the killing of five Indian soldiers by Pakistani troops on the LoC on Tuesday, with the Rajya Sabha witnesss to an ugly spat between two MPs.
Both Houses also saw continuing protests on Telangana.