The Supreme Court on Monday ordered the arrest warrant of Samir Hingora, a Bollywood producer who was convicted for his role in the 1993 Mumbai serial bombings. But later on, the arrest warrant was reversed.
 
The arrest order by a bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice P. ...

Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, the main accused in the Mumbai terror attacks, Monday confessed to his role, admitted that he is a Pakistani and narrated in detail the events which led to the killing spree that left 180 people dead in the boldest terror assault India has ever seen.
 
Kasab also ...

Retaining that the recent Delhi High Court verdict decriminalising homosexuality does not permit incestuous relations or adultery, the Supreme Court on Monday said that it will wait for the central government's formal stand on the issue before forming its opinion.
 
A bench of Chief Justice ...

The Delhi High Court gave its verdict in the infamous BMW hit-and-run case on Monday .Earlier a trial court had convicted and sentenced Sanjeev Nanda, grandson of former Naval chief S.M. Nanda, to five years' jail for mowing down six persons in 1999.
 
Justice Kailash Gambhir, who had ...

The Supreme Court on Monday issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against Sameer Hingora, a Bollywood film producer, who has been convicted for his role in the 1993 Mumbai bombings.
 
A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan issued the arrest warrant for Hingora after he failed to return to ...

The weatherman predicted light rain in the capital Saturday, and sweating Delhiites hoped the met office prediction would not be contradicted.
 
"The maximum temperature recorded was 38.4 degrees Celsius, three notches above average, while the minimum temperature recorded was 28.8 ...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday conducted raids on the residences of top officials of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) in New Delhi.
 
CBI had registered a case on Thursday against the chairman, advisor, deputy director, and regional officer of the ...

The Delhi Transport Minister, Arvinder Singh Lovely, on Thursday said that 15 new Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus depots would come up before 2010 Commonwealth Games (CWG).
 
"CCTV cameras would also be installed in all DTC bus depots to ensure security during the 2010 CWG," ...

One million residents of Dwarka will have a shuttle service of low-floor air-conditioned buses within the sub-city from September 2009.
 
"The decision has been taken to improve local transportation in Dwarka sub-city, which is home to about a million people. The service would also ...

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Wednesday paid Rs.50,000 out of the Rs.5,00,000 it had announced as compensation for the families of each of those killed in the Metro accident.
 
"Out of Rs 500,000, Rs.50,000 has been paid as interim relief in cash to the next of kin of each ...

After a lot of hide and seek for weeks, Delhi finally got rains on Wednesday bringing some relief from the scorching heat to the capital's residents.
 
"A total of 3.4 mm rain was recorded in the capital," an official at the Safdarjung meteorological department said.
 
The ...

The Delhi government will promote energy efficient buildings with white roof and CFL bulbs. Starting from its secretariat, the Delhi government will undertake a slew of measures to conserve power in buildings under its jurisdiction.
 
The plan to build what it called "cool roofs" ...

Delhi Metro chief E. Sreedharan on Wednesday gave marching orders to Vijay Anand, a senior director in charge of the Central Secretariat-Badarpur line where the accident killing six people took place on Sunday.
 
"Sreedharan on Wednesday ordered the repatriation of Vijay Anand, director ...

Delhi High Court on Tuesday upheld a government notification banning use of plastic bags in specified areas of the capital to protect the environment.
 
The division bench comprising of Justices Madan B. Lokur and A.K. Pathak dismissed the plea from the All India Plastic Manufacturers' ...

Delhi reported its first case of dengue this year with a 27-year-old man testing positive for the vector-borne disease at a private hospital here, health officials said on Tuesday.
 
Naval Kishore, a resident of Malviya Nagar in south Delhi, tested positive for dengue Saturday at the Fortis ...

With monsoon still eluding Delhi, the capital continued to be in the grip of high temperature and humidity on Tuesday.
 
"The maximum temperature today (Tuesday) is expected to be around 36°C and the minimum temperature around 27°C", an official of the India Meteorological ...

Yielding to the request of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and other senior officials, 'Metro Man' E. Sreedharan on Monday withdrew his resignation letter as managing director of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC).
 
Sreedharan resigned on Sunday after taking the moral ...

Sheila Dixit, Delhi Cm, on Monday emphasized that the Delhi Metro chief E Sreedharan’s resignation will not be accepted in any case. E. Sreedharan had resigned from his post due to the Sunday morning bridge collapse, which caused the death of 6 people.

Speaking to reporters, Dixit said ...

The Delhiites woke up to pleasant weather on Monday with early morning showers and a cool breeze bringing relief from the scorching heat.
 
The national capital recorded 1.6 mm of rainfall overnight. However, the brief spell of showers increased the humidity level to 85%. The minimum ...

E. Sreedharan, the manging director of Delhi Metro, had resigned after an accident on a construction site claimed five lives on Sunday, but the Delhi Chief Minister rejected his resignation.
 
"He (Sreedharan) is a thorough gentleman and very responsible but we feel that the (inquiry) ...

E. Sreedharan, managing director of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), resigned from the post Sunday, taking moral responsibility for the collapse of the underconstruction bridge that killed five people in the capital. 
 
Addressing a press conference here, the 77-year-old ...

For a long time the monsoon showers had been eluding the capital, but Friday morning residents woke up to a brief spell of rain making the weather more pleasant.
Morning commuters were caught unawares as it started raining in some parts of the capital. 

"It was a pleasant surprise. ...

Air traffic congestion at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi will end once the new terminal T3 becomes operational by April 2010 said the Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel on Thursday. 

"I do concede there there is a problem. But there is always scope for ...

neighbourhood store will not belch black smoke any more. Their engines have been changed for using CNG, with the first three trucks of the new "green fleet" flagged off by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit here on Wednesday evening.
On the occasion, Dikshit called upon all residents of ...

According to a new study, the designers of the 17th century Taj Mahal have employed the same unit of measurement used by the Harappan civilization of 2000 BC.
The study by R. Balasubramaniam of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, has for the first time shown that the unit of length ...

The rain had hit the capital city last week, but due to bad luck, it was only fro a day. But now it seems that climate has taken a pity on India’s capital city. According to the met department, there is more rain in store for Delhiites.
 
‘There will generally be cloudy skies ...

Supreme Court has challenged the Delhi High Court's verdict decriminalising homosexual sex.
 
The lawsuit has been filed by advocate Suresh Kumar Kaushal, who urged the apex court to review the high court's July 2 ruling, which struck down penal provisions from sex between two consenting ...

The lawyers of the district courts in Delhi will abstain from work on Thursday to oppose the imposition of service tax on law firms.
 
'The lawyers of India will not tolerate any attempt by the government to impose service tax on the legal fraternity and shall adopt all peaceful means to ...

Syed Abdullah Bukhari, the Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid for decades and was one of India's most outspoken Muslim leaders, passed away in New Delhi on Wednesday. He was 87.
Although Abdullah Bukhari had made his son Syed Ahmed Bukhari the Shahi Imam in 2000, he retained the title of Shahi Imam ...

After the days of a literally "dry" monsoon, the met department on Wednesday said that the capital is likely to receive thundershowers in the latter part of the day.

“It will mainly be clear skies today, but later in the day it may get partly cloudy. Also there is a possibility ...