In a gruesome incident, agitated employees of a steel plant Thursday burnt alive deputy general manager Radheshyam Ray at Titlagarh town, 450 km from here. He received 90 per cent burns and died later Thursday.

Our MPs don’t want to queue to check-in at airports, or even for the security check. They feel VIPs like them are being denied special treatment that is their due at the IGI Airport’s new Terminal 3 (T3), where they are being required to queue up like everyone else.

After quashing the CVC appointment, the Supreme Court, in a successive blow to the Centre, questioned its action in transferring three officers of the directorate of enforcement probing the black money trail, and asked the government why it should not go in for “custodial interrogation” of those black account holders whose names were known to it.

In a severe blow to the UPA-2 government, the Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the appointment of central vigilance commissioner P.J. Thomas in view of his name figuring in a pending corruption case. It said the issue of corruption cannot be allowed to remain hidden under technicalities cited by the Union government to defend him.

Soon, Delhi will boast of liquor showrooms as the city government has given nod to a proposal in this regard on the condition that the liquor company must have five brands of its own.

A newly-wed woman succumbed to burns at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital on Tuesday night with her family members alleging that she was killed by her in-laws for dowry.

A division bench comprising Justices A.K. Sikri and Suresh Kait of the Delhi high court on Thursday said that the permits of the “killer” Blueline buses will not be renewed after their expiry.

A Delhi police constable, who was allegedly in a drunken state, created ruckus at a restaurant in Bhogal on Wednesday evening after he was asked to pay his bill.
The police said the incident took place at Nikku Restaurant in Bhogal on Wednesday night. The accused constable, Harmeet Singh, who is posted at the Hazrat Nizamuddin police station, walked into the restaurant and asked a waiter to serve him.

Intermittent but continuous rains, more of a pitter patter in many areas since Wednesday night, brought the temperature down by more than four degrees on Thursday. The weatherman has forecast rain or thunder showers on Friday too.