Posted on 21 February 2012
New Delhi: Delhiites woke up to another bright and pleasant morning on Tuesday with temperature remaining at normal levels. The minimum temperature was recorded at 11.1 degrees Celsius, normal for this time of the year. Yesterday, the low was at 11.4 degrees Celsius. The maximum temperature in the last 24 hours was recorded at 25.5 [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 21 February 2012
New Delhi: Two men died early Monday morning after they were run over by a car belonging to the wife of an official of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). Police said the car was being driven by Manish (19), who worked as a car cleaner at the house of the MEA official in Asiad [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 21 February 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today told the Supreme Court that it opposes the shifting of Aarushi Talwar murder trial from Ghaziabad to Delhi. The counsel of the investigating agency told the court that it can provide security to Aarushi’s parents, Rajesh Talwar and Nupur Talwar. It has, however, sought time to [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 21 February 2012
NEW DELHI: Prawal Mani Tripathi isn’t used to attention. The 30-year-old from Bihar’s west Champaran district sounds baffled when contacted for an interview. “You must be kidding. Why would somebody teaching English to Afghan students become newsworthy?,” he asks. Setting up a coaching centre for underprivileged Afghan students and teaching some of them for free [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 21 February 2012
New Delhi: A suspected ISI agent was arrested in the national capital allegedly with defence documents, police said on Tuesday. Kamran Akbar, based in Kolkata, was apprehended from near the New Delhi Railway Station on February 13 on a tipoff, a senior police official said. He was allegedly in possession of some defence documents. Akbar, [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 20 February 2012
NEW DELHI: A 25-year-old man was found murdered in the Pandav Nagar area of east Delhi on Sunday morning, police said. The man, identified as Gaurav Kishan, was from Lucknow. His body was found near a hospital in the area. Kishan was living in the Shashi Garden area in Pandav Nagar. “There were ligature marks [...] Continue Reading