According to the victim's family members, the car allegedly hit his cycle from behind and it was dragged on the road for several metres.
A strong dust storm and gusty winds followed by rain hit Delhi-NCR on Friday evening, causing trees to be uprooted in several parts and leading to traffic congestion. Thunderstorms caused power disruptions in several parts of the city, primarily due to trees and branches falling on electricity cables. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert, recommending people stay indoors and avoid unnecessary travel.
Aam Aadmi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal will soon vacate the official residence of Delhi chief minister in Civil Lines area of the city, with an intensive search on to look for a new house near his New Delhi constituency, the party said on Saturday.
The woman alleged that a 'policeman' standing on the platform did not take any action after she approached him for help following the incident.
The faculty and students of Jawaharlal Nehru University alleged that over 10 students, including the visually and physically challenged, were injured due to the "brutality" of police personnel who severely baton charged them during their protest against the hostel fee hike on Monday, even as the Delhi Police denied the accusations.
Once three officers reached inside, they opened the gates to allow other team members waiting outside.
The properties overseas include two luxury hotels - one in New York and one in London - two residential apartments in London valued at 15 million each, and a yacht stationed in the UK. In India, Kapoor's six bungalows in Delhi's upscale localities, including Jor Bagh, Hauz Khas, and Kautilya Marg, were also identified.
A CBI spokesperson said he has been arrested on the basis of a warrant issued by a competent court.
After a slew of celebrities took up Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan challenge, it was the chance of United States Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.
Anand Sharma asserted that the Congress has a history of upholding freedom of expression.
Her expression of strong support to Chidambaram, who has also been a home minister, came a day after the Delhi high court refused to grant him any protection from arrest in the INX media case.
Five out of the ten metro stations in Central Delhi, that were closed down for an indefinite period in the wake of the death of the gangrape victim, were opened on Saturday afternoon.
However, in some markets of the city meat is anyways not sold on Tuesdays as this day of the week is considered auspicious by many Hindus.
Six Metro stations in central Delhi will be closed for most part of the day on Sunday, an apparent precautionary step following a call by erstwhile Team Anna to gherao residences of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Bharatiya Janata Party chief Nitin Gadkari over the coal block allocation issue.
Four metro stations near the prime minister's official residence here were closed on Thursday as a precautionary measure following a call by Team Anna Hazare to people to hold a protest there.
The idea is not to form a Bengali lobby group but simply to get to know each other better.
Justice Gaur was elevated to the high court in April 2008. He was designated as a permanent judge on April 11, 2012.
The Congress leader, who served as Union home minister during November 2008 to July 2012 in the United Progressive Alliance government, was one of the key guests at the inauguration event of CBI headquarters, held on June 30, 2011, in the presence of then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The court extended the judicial custody of Chidambaram after the Central Bureua of Investigation sought extension of the veteran Congress leader's judicial remand.
'Every person is presumed innocent unless proved guilty in a court of law,' the statement said.
'It's the court, not the government that decides where to put the people who indulge in corruption'
After questioning him for four hours in the morning, Chidambaram was taken to a special court in Delhi which sent him to CBI custody till Monday.
"The fact is that after 106 days of pre-trial incarceration there is not a single charge framed against me as I speak now," said Chidambaram, who is expected to attend the Rajya Sabha proceedings on Thursday.
Justice Suresh Kait issued a notice to the CBI on Chidambaram's bail plea in which he has claimed that it was the case of 'political vendetta'.
The CBI suspects that Chidamabaram and his son Karti also received kickbacks from other companies.
Other than Kapoor, the complaint, running into more than 10,000 pages, named his wife, Bindu; three daughters Rakhee, Roshini, and Radha; and three firms, Morgan Credits, RAB Enterprises, and Doit Urban Ventures, allegedly controlled by them.
The Central Bureau of Investigation had registered an FIR on May 15, 2017 alleging irregularities in the Foreign Investment Promotion Board clearance granted to the media group for receiving overseas funds of Rs 305 crore in 2007 during Chidambaram's tenure as finance minister.
Had he been alive today, the Mahatma would likely travel by metro, as hundreds of women and men do each day. Insiyah Vahanvaty reports for Rediff.com on an unusual exhibition on the Mahatma at Delhi metro stations.
The court decided the bail petition on three grounds -- flight risk, tampering with evidence and influencing witnesses.
The trial court had earlier said that the allegations against Chidambaram were found serious, therefore, he was remanded to police custody.
About 11 entities may be charged in the first charge sheet in the case, the sources said without elaborating on the issue.
The probe agency is understood to have alerted all airports and other ports of entry to prevent Chidambaram from leaving, sources said.
The agency's latest action, under Prevention of Money Laundering laws, had been taken against the borrower company and its two group companies, which owe the investors Rs 922 crore (Rs 9.22 billion), sources said.
It is a sight that both warms and breaks the heart. The women of Shaheen Bagh seem oblivious of the cold, these women and their children, the latter ranging in age from 19 days to early teens, who have been occupying the road for over two weeks now. Some of them have not gone home for days, but their faces are clear, unlined by fatigue, their eyes bright and fierce as those of the falcon, shaheen, the area is named for.
Setting aside the Delhi high court's September 30 verdict denying bail to Chidambaram, the apex court said he is neither a "flight risk" nor there is a possibility of "his abscondence from the trial". Chidambaram had moved the apex court challenging the high court verdict.
He has already been subjected to custodial interrogation by the CBI for eight days since his arrest on August 21, after the Delhi high court on August 20 dismissed his anticipatory bail plea.
Rejecting reports of his evading the law, he told reporters that the charges against him and his son were 'nothing further from truth'.
Aazad may visit Delhi for medical reasons and election purposes. The court had earlier restrained him from visiting Delhi for four weeks and directed him to not hold any 'dharna' till the elections in the national capital.
Out on bail, the Bhim Army chief said 'it will be shameful if I don't call him out for saying that those indulging in violence can be identified by their clothes itself'.
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