A special court on Tuesday awarded the death sentence to 11 of 31 persons convicted for the 2002 Godhra train carnage, leading to the death of 59 kar sevaks travelling in Coach S-6 of Sabarmati Express, while the remaining 20 were given life imprisonment.

In view of the politically violent atmosphere that prevails in West Bengal, due both to political rivalry and Maoist activities, the Election Commission on Tuesday announced a six-phase election schedule for the state. Of the other three states and one Union territory which will go to the polls to elect new Assemblies, Assam will have voting over two days while Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry will have single-day polling.

The crime branch claimed to have arrested one of the associates of a man believed to be involved in murder of a law graduate, who was found dumped in a bag near New Delhi Railway Station last month.

Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital (GTB) will have kidney transplant facility soon. Delhi health minister, Dr A.K. Walia, approved the project. A hospital official said that the project has been approved recently. “With the commissioning of nephrology unit, the kidney transplant will commence soon. This would make the hospital the first government hospital to provide kidney transplant facility,” the official said.

The pride of the city’s civic body, Civic Centre, which will be MCD’s new headquarters, will be maintained by a private agency, which looks after the likes of the Prime Minister’s residence and Vigyan Bhavan. However, the Opposition has criticised the move. The MCD has also decided to take help of the crime branch of the Delhi police for curbing the menace of parking mafia.

Even if retired judges and legal luminaries feel that India’s judiciary is one of the best in the world, but Delhi high court Justice S.N. Dhingra, who delivered various landmark judgements including that in the Parliament attack case, on Tuesday said, he did not agree with the claim and asserted that a lot was still to be done to make judiciary more effective.

Protests erupted in a colony in southwest Delhi’s Dwarka against a civic agency after a four-year-old girl fell into an open manhole and died on Tuesday afternoon.
The police said the incident took place near an open field situated adjacent to Ramakrishna Apartments, Pocket 12 of Sector 23, Dwarka, at around 3 pm where a group of children were playing.

Son of an Agra-based footwear trader was rescued from the clutches of kidnappers in Greater Noida on Sunday.
Residents of Khera village played vital role in foiling the kidnapping and rescuing the boy.

The students were disappointed after the first Central Board of Secondary School Class 12 board exam as they complained of a lengthy question paper.
“The physics paper was easy but too lengthy to be finished in three hours specially the three mark questions. I could attempt only 80 per cent of the paper,” Aditya Kalra, a student of DAV school said.

The PWD minister Raj Kumar Chouhan’s position in the Delhi Cabinet is believed to be on shaky grounds with the Congress high command reportedly not in a mood to ignore recommendation of the Lokayukta to the President for his ouster from the council of ministers.