An Islamic militant group 'Indian Mujahedeen' has reportedly claimed responsibility for New Delhi blasts where 30 people have been killed. There are more than 90 injured in the serial bomb blast. There were five bomb blasts in less than half an hour. Two of them were in the heart of Delhi in ...

Five explosions took place at three crowded markets in Delhi today evening. Two blasts took place at Connaught Place, two at Greater Kailash (M Block) & one at Ghaffar market in Karol Bagh in a quick succession.
Thirty people are reported to have died and atleast 80 injured.

The Supreme Court bench of Justice B N Agrawal and Justice G S Singhvi has ordered for the arrest of Gopal Ansal and Sushil Ansal in Uphaar Case. The bench on Wednesday held that the role of Gopal and Sushil Ansal in destroying court records in the Uphaar cinema fire was a grievous offence. The ...

The date is out and the people are all geared up to participate in the most-awaited event of the year - Airtel Delhi Marathon 2008. On 9 November 2008, the entire capital city will be swayed away by the world's richest half marathon in which many celebrities would also participate. The good news ...

The Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan on Saturday inaugurated Delhi's fifth and most hi-tech district court at Dwarka. Justice A K Sikri, a Delhi High Court judge and the chairman of the Building Maintenance and Construction Committee of Dwarka courts in his speech said that the complex is ...

Delhi and its adjoining states were rocked by a low-intensity earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale on Saturday, September 6, 2008. So far there has been report of life and property loss. The quake took place at around 11.18 am in the morning and its epicentre is said to be located in the ...

Nupur Sharma of Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has become president of DUSU for the session 2008-09 (Delhi University Students Union). She defeated Sonia Sapra of NSUI (National Students Union of India) with a margin of 1,639 votes. Nupur Sharma got 10,345 votes. Nupur Sharma, a Law ...

From the night of September 5, 2008, the New Delhi Railway Station will don an abandoned look for the consecutive 10 days. Do not be taken aback to see the platform stalls closed, the normally crammed vehicle parking space empty and beggars missing from the premises from September 5 to September ...

A visible preparation for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the capital will be the transport department's doubling the number of buses plying on roads and therefore setting up 75 more bus depots. For this, land for nine depots has been acquired from gram sabhas.
 
For the first time, it has ...

The rising number of cases in Dengue in NCR has alarmed health infrastructure establishment. According to sources till August 25, there have been 60 confirmed cases of dengue in Delhi and 213 from Gurgaon. So far two persons have lost their lives because of Dengue. And, this all is happening in the ...

An exhibition of paintings by controversial artist MF Husain was vandalized by a group of miscreants on Sunday, August 24 in New Delhi. The venue of the exhibition was the lawns of the Constitution Club at New Delhi's Rafi Marg, where the miscreants damaged seven of Husain's paintings. Nobody, ...

Delhi soon will have its airstrip stretching 4.43-kilometre, i.e. 2.7-miles; the longest in the Asia. Currently, Kuala Lumpur International Airport with its 4.12 airstrip is boasting for longest airstrip in Asia. However, building the longest airstrip is not the goal that airport authorities do ...

Seeing the increasing preference of commuters to travel via metro trains, the Delhi Metro has decided to soon introduce 131 new trains to make traveling within the city an easier task.  Apart from addressing the problem of increasing rush in the Metro, the new trains will also have power ...

Earlier part-time courses for working professionals and now distance learning programs for them; IITD is certainly in expanding mode. In its goal to expand its reachin NCR and offer quality education to working professionals, IITD recently launched its distance learning program. According to IIT ...

At a time when the property prices are spiraling up unbelievably, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) from Monday, August 4 onwards would start selling off 5,000 flats at a rate flat 40 per cent less than the market price. It means that it will be a real treat for those who actually manage to get ...

Karnataka BJP MLA Raghupathy Bhat’s wife Padmapriya according to Deputy Commissioner of Police (West Delhi) Shalini Singh was found hanging from the ceiling of Shama Apartments in Dwarka Sector 10 late Saturday night. 35-year-old Padmapriya the mother of two children was missing for four ...

An unusually early monsoon in Delhi this year has come as a pleasant surprise, as this is the time when the locals normally begin preparing themselves to face the scorching summers months ahead. Believe it or not, this one happens to be the earliest monsoon in Delhi in the past 108 years. The ...

After a long gap, the Delhi development Authority is all set to launch its biggest housing scheme since July 2004. DDA officials have revealed that six thousand flats will be made available to people in coming two months across the capital city. The one and two bedroom flats for low and middle ...

The Delhi state government on Thursday, June 05, 2008 decided to offer direct subsidy to oil companies to absorb the LPG price hike. The result of this move will be that the Delhiites will have to shell just Rs10 more for the cooking oil fuel. The government of the national capital will however as ...

According to various reports, all the important routes like the NH-8, NH-24 highway and the MG road which connects Delhi Gurgaon has been cleared by the police. On Thursday, May 29, 2008, Gujjars had blocked the important routes and had also disrupted rail traffic in the capital and the adjoining ...

Shortly after a man was arrested in Delhi suspected to be involved in the Jaipur serial blasts, the Police have found sophisticated explosives early on Thursday, May 22, 2008. The Delhi Police revealed that Mohammed Salim was detained at Chelmsford Road at the heart of New Delhi on Wednesday, May ...

Tourists can now enjoy the heritage of Delhi in the very heart of old Delhi, enjoying the culture and cuisine of the region reminiscent of the Mughal and British era. The government is planning to convert the 142 year old Municipal Town Hall situated in Chandni Chowk into a heritage hotel. The Town ...

A Parliamentary Committee has suggested that the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) should seriously think of conducting its examinations on the same format as that of GMAT, IIT and IIM entrance examinations. This, according to the committee will help reduce the extraordinarily long ...

A tussle ensued between the police and Tibetan protesters participating in the torch relay that was organized alongside the Olympic flame event in New Delhi on Thursday 17 April. It is learnt that the police also tried extinguishing their torch and arrested about 50 Tibetan protesters. Hundreds of ...

With the Olympic Torch arriving in New Delhi in a day, Indian Government is fully geared up for the Olympic Torch Relay in New Delhi on Thursday, April 17, 2008. The Chinese Ambassador met the Delhi Police Commissioner on Tuesday to discuss all the necessary arrangements for the Thursday Relay. ...