Traffic was thrown out of gear in national capital New Delhi on Saturday and several major roads witnessed a chock-a-block situation, a day after the fortnight-long Odd-Even scheme restricting movement of private cars ended.
Three private detectives, arrested for allegedly attempting to retrieve call detail records of Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley, were on Tuesday remanded in three days police custody by a Delhi court.
Tamil Nadu reported the highest number of such deaths at 194, followed by Gujarat 122, Karnataka 68 and Uttar Pradesh 51.
Police forces of several states were on the look out for him.
A seven-year-old girl was raped allegedly by an unidentified man inside a municipal school in the national capital, the police said on Friday.
In a new twist in the sensational Geetika Sharma case, her mother also committed suicide Friday with the family blaming former Haryana Minister Gopal Kanda, six months after the former airhostess ended her life alleging harassment by the MLA.
"Our decision to form an alliance with the Congress was to stop the Modi-Shah duo," Sisodia said.
A young Delhi municipal councilor allegedly murdered her one-and-half-year-old daughter before committing suicide in her west Delhi residence, police said on Thursday. Satyam Yadav, 26, a Congress councillor from Nangloi East in North Delhi Municipal Corporation, was found hanging from the ceiling of her house while her daughter Vanishka was found murdered in her room, they said.
An unclaimed laptop bag found near an army hospital in New Delhi on Monday sparked security alert and securitymen went into a tizzy with reports of abandoned vehicles in two separate incidents.
A party leader said the AAP will resort to what it did during the 2015 Delhi Assembly polls-- a "positive campaign".
In yet another incident of crime against women, a 24-year-old young girl was allegedly gang raped by four persons, including one known to her, in a west Delhi locality. Police has arrested all the accused.
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Sunday made a veiled attack on activist Arvind Kejriwal, accusing him of trying to build his political future by "misleading" people on the issue of hike in power tariff in Delhi. Without naming Kejriwal, Dikshit, while addressing a public function at Nangloi in West Delhi, said certain elements were trying to rake up the power tariff issue for their political gain by "misleading" the citizens of Delhi.
A 23-year-old former woman employee of now defunct MDLR airline allegedly committed suicide at her residence in New Delhi and police on Sunday registered a case against a Haryana minister, who was the owner of the airline, on charges of abetting the crime.
The wife of an employee of crisis-ridden Kingfisher Airlines on Thursday allegedly committed suicide, apparently depressed over financial stress due to non-payment of salary to her husband. The wife of an employee of crisis-ridden Kingfisher Airlines on Thursday allegedly committed suicide, apparently depressed over financial stress due to non-payment of salary to her husband.
The Paytm employee, who tested positive for the contagious disease with flu like symptoms on Wednesday, came in touch with 91 people in Gurgaon, an official said, citing his counterpart in the suburban town.
The six accused in the Delhi gang-rape case had allegedly tried to mow the girl down under the bus after dumping her in south-west Delhi but her male friend saved her from being crushed.
Unable to bear the loss of her daughter, the 45-year-old mother of the Delhi gangrape victim collapsed on Sunday and rushed to a city hospital where doctors said her condition was stable.
It was only late on Saturday night that police approached the officials of a crematorium in south-west Delhi for an early morning cremation of the 23-year-old gangrape victim.
On the run for the past ten days, controversial former Haryana Minister Gopal Kanda surrendered before the police early Saturday morning in connection with the suicide of his former employee Geetika Sharma, the night after Delhi high court rejected his anticipatory bail plea.
Haryana minister Gopal Kanda resigned on Sunday night after he was booked for abetment to suicide by the Delhi police after a former woman employee of his now defunct airline MDLR allegedly took her life accusing him of harassing her.
Indeed, if you look at this hypothesis with sufficiently jaundiced eyes, you will find plenty in common in the way 'Team India' conducts its affairs and the way 'Team Modi' does, argues Krishna Prasad.
The national capital on Tuesday reeled under massive power cuts, with outages in some areas lasting for over eight to nine hours, resulting in inconvenience to people in the sweltering heat.People in certain localities of West Delhi even hit the streets, protesting long power cuts.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who was taken ill during a roadshow in Varanasi and forced to return to the national capital, was "stable".
A special court on Tuesday granted bail to home ministry official Anand Joshi, who was arrested for allegedly issuing Foreign Contribution Regulation Act notices arbitrarily to several NGOs.
In a thumping performance, Bharatiya Janata Party candidates emerged victorious in all seven Lok Sabha constituencies in Delhi by margin of more than one lakh votes as the party's vote share neared the 50 per cent mark.
Two unidentified bike-borne assailants threw acid on a 30-year-old woman doctor in New Delhi in Tuesday morning in West Delhi's Rajouri Garden area.
Out of the 150 candidates analysed in Delhi, where Lok Sabha elections will be held on April 10, 23 candidates (15 per cent) have declared cases against themselves.
Former union minister for child and women development and senior Congress Party leader Krishna Tirath on Monday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party after meeting party chief Amit Shah.
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Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will contest the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.
Two suspected terrorists of the Babbar Khalsa International have been arrested by the Delhi police. The police claimed that some politicians and religious leaders were on the duo's target list. The arrested have been identified as Sarvpreet and Jaswinder. A team of Delhi police's Special Cell apprehended the duo, said a senior police official.One of them was arrested from Punjab while the second person was apprehended from north-west Delhi's Shalimar Bagh
Aam Aadmi Party legislator from Narela Sharad Chauhan has been arrested by police in connection with the suicide of a woman worker of the ruling party.
The Delhi police on Saturday claimed to have arrested four young men involved in the armed attack on Indian National Lok Dal Member of Legislative Assembly Bhagat Singh and cited personal rivalry as the reason behind the assault. The MLA was shot at by assailants outside his office in south-west Delhi on Saturday and was rushed to the hospital with bullet injuries along with a relative who was also hit.
A 30-year-old constable was killed and his young colleague injured when a speeding Mercedes, allegedly driven by a hotelier, hit them in West Delhi while they were on patrolling duty on Tuesday morning, police said.
A doctor couple, who had gone on vacation to Thailand, allegedly leaving their 13-year-old maid locked-up and starving in their flat at Dwarka in South West Delhi, was on Tuesday denied anticipatory bail by a court in New Delhi.
Additional Solicitor Generals P S Narsimha and Pinky Anand, appearing for the Centre, informed the court that following its order, a team of doctors from AIIMS had visited the baby in a local government hospital and shifted her to AIIMS for better medical care.
The move comes following a recent verdict by the Supreme Court in this regard.
Joginder Sharma, who was a member of India's Twenty20 World Cup winning squad in 2007, was injured following a road accident near Noida, on Thursday.
The Central Bureau of Investigation is expected to question representatives of NGOs whose names have cropped up during its probe against a Home Ministry official Anand Joshi who was allegedly issuing notices of foreign remittances violations to voluntary groups in an arbitrary manner.
Out of the seven, four belonged to one family from Delhi.
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