A 23-year-old girl, who was travelling alone in the ladies compartment of a local train in the early hours of Saturday, was sexually assaulted by a drunk labourer, who had illegally entered the compartment. The accused was, however, nabbed by commuters when the train halted at a station.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday threw her weight behind her party’s Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal a day after the Suri court’s direction to the district police to start a case against him under non-bailable charges. Giving a clean chit to controversial Mr Mondal, Ms Banerjee lambasted the Opposition as well as the media for making a mountain of a molehill.

A defence spokesperson in Jammu said that the Pakistani troops violated ceasefire by firing towards the Indian Army posts in Doda Battalion forward area in Poonch district beginning at 7.30 am on Saturday. “Our jawans retaliated effectively,” the spokesperson said. He said this was the fifth violation of ceasefire by Pakistani troops so far in the area in July this year.

Indefinite curfew was clamped on central Kashmir town of Budgam and more than two dozen neighbouring villages on Saturday following the death of a local woman in a hospital days after she was allegedly beaten by the police.

The rising crime graph in Uttar Pradesh is not due to poor governance or bad policing, as many would like to believe. It is a result of failed relationships, extra-marital affairs and betrayal in love affairs.

The woman, whose complaint of wife-swapping rocked the Naval base in Kochi in April, was arrested by the Delhi police for allegedly committing a forgery in procuring credit card in the name of her estranged husband on Saturday.

The Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party  (BJP) and Aam Admi Party (AAP) came down heavily upon Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission and the Delhi government for introducing yet another hike in power tariff.

In what appeared to be a virtual snub to Delhi police chief Neeraj Kumar, Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Friday skipped the foundation stone-laying ceremony for the proposed new headquarters of Delhi police citing inadequacy in the documentation of the project.

After the city government’s subsidy, domestic users of 0-200 slab will have to pay `2.70 per unit and users of 201-400 slab will have to pay `5 per unit, which is lower than the current tariff of `5.50.

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday said that her government has prepared the road map for the implementation of food security scheme in the national capital. The scheme will be launched by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on August 20, birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and the beneficiaries will start getting entitled food grains from September 1.