A low-down on the eight runners -- four men and four women -- who finished second in their qualifying heats to make the Olympic cut.
On Monday, Poonawala had come under an attack by some weapon-wielding men at the FSL when he was in a police van.
Delhi's drugs control department has told the Delhi high court that it has launched prosecution against Gautam Gambhir Foundation and Aam Aadmi Party MLAs, Imran Hussain and Praveen Kumar, before a court for allegedly illegally stocking and distributing Covid drugs during the infection's second wave.
The 640-page charge sheet was filed before a POCSO court on Tuesday under Section 12 of POCSO (punishment for committing sexual harassment upon a child) and sections of the Scheduled Caste and Schedule Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, court sources said.
The top court was hearing a plea filed by advocate Krishan Kanhaya Pal who said that the governments are unable to share the benefits of the welfare schemes with all sections among backward classes due to a lack of caste-based survey and a caste-based census of the OBCs is of 'vital necessity'.
Officials said Poonawala's narco test was completely successful and his health condition was absolutely fine.
The Delhi Police has slapped murder charges against four of the accused in the Kanjhawala accident in which a woman was killed after being dragged by a car, officials said.
A police van carrying Aaftab Poonawala, accused of killing his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar, was attacked by some weapon-wielding people outside the Forensic Science Laboratory in Rohini in New Delhi where he was taken for a polygraph test on Monday, sources said.
The Chief Justice, while speaking at the farewell reference organised by the high court, said that judges are only interpreters and are not here to make the law or to evolve a policy and a balance has to be maintained between judicial activism and restraint.
A creche facility for the children of judicial officers and staff at the Rohini district court complex in New Delhi has run into controversy for issuing a fiat that the kids of non-judicial members would be allowed only if they were "neat and clean" and "free from disease".
The visuals on social media also showed huge traffic on the National Highway-24 and Sarai Kale Khan where vehicles were crawling. Water from the overflowing Yamuna river reached ITO, a key route to commute from east Delhi to central Delhi and Connaught Place.
The high court said the investigation has shown the crime proceeds were used for air travel and purchase of high-end branded gifts for Bollywood celebrities.
A Delhi Court on Tuesday refused to grant anticipatory bail to absconding Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar in the murder case of a wrestler, saying that he is 'prima facie' the main conspirator and allegations against him are serious in nature.
The pieces of Walkar's body were kept inside the refrigerator when he called the psychologist at his place, according to police sources.
'I'm very proud of what family I come from, but I feel it must always be an afterthought... 10 years of my work will get nullified when people say "Yeh toh genes main hai".'
"For security reasons, Mailk may not be assigned any work in jail. He has been kept in a separate cell in jail number seven under heavy security. His security will be regularly monitored and reviewed from time to time," a senior jail official said.
According to the sources, police recovered fragments of skull and other body parts, mostly bones, on the third day of extensive searches in the forest areas of Mehrauli and Gurgaon in the Delhi-NCR region.
Eighteen teams are working in the investigation of the case and all angles are being probed, it said.
The police on Thursday claimed to have gathered some key evidence in the Mehrauli murder case, saying the DNA samples extracted from the bones recovered from a forest area and from the blood traces found at the house where Shraddha Walkar was murdered have matched with samples of her father.
The police have arrested two men who worked at the eatery in this connection.
The Wire argued that the lower court's order prohibiting it from publishing any article related to Jay Shah was a curtailment of the Constitutional freedom of speech and expression.
The court said that the portal should not link the subject matter to PM Modi.
The Delhi high court on Friday set aside the one-year suspension of BJP lawmaker Vijender Gupta from the Delhi legislative assembly and permitted him to attend the remaining budget session while directing him to maintain the dignity of the House.
'You cannot take offence at everything,' the bench said.
However, police said the saw allegedly used by Poonawala to cut his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar's body is yet to be recovered.
As Poonawala's five-day police custody ends on Tuesday, the Delhi Police is running against time to get the test conducted.
Based on a petition filed by Palem Srikanth Reddy, president of the Jana Palana Party, a division bench comprising justices G Rohini and T Sunil Chowdary issued notices and posted the matter on April 2 for further hearing.
Protests erupted in Madanpur Khadar area under the South Delhi Municipal Corporation on Thursday during an anti-encroachment drive by the civic body, with people pelting stones at security personnel which left a few injured, the police said.
Police said according to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) report, the blood samples recovered from Poonawala's house were of Walkar's.
The narco analysis test on Aaftab Amin Poonawala, who has been accused of killing live-in-partner, will not be conducted on Monday even as the process required to do it has been initiated, officials said.
The Delhi high court on Wednesday sought a response from Boxing India on a plea challenging International Boxing Association's (AIBA) decision to suspend boxer Sarita Devi for refusing to accept the bronze medal at the Asian Games in South Korea.
An undertrial prisoner, who used an order bearing the forged signatures of a metropolitan magistrate to get swanky sports shoes, trendy belt and a wrist watch in jail, has been awarded three years imprisonment by a Delhi court.
According to sources, the confessions of Poonawala during his 14 days of police custody are similar to those in response to the questions asked during his polygraph and narco analysis test.
Self-styled godman Asaram's son Narayan Sai, who is accused of sexually assaulting a woman at his ashram between 2002 and 2005, was on Thursday brought to Surat from Delhi, a senior police officer said.
In a statement, police also said in view of the the "deceptive nature" of responses provided by the accused, an application for conducting his narco analysis test was made and it has been approved by the court.
Navya Singh was protecting her sovereign right to play, says Aditi Phadnis.
The reported 'confessions', including those allegedly made before a magistrate, by Mehrauli killing accused Aaftab Amin Poonawala do not have conclusive legal validity, experts said, doubting that several key conditions were not fulfilled.
Supporters of self-styled godman Asaram's son Narayan Sai on Wednesday clashed with a group of people protesting against him outside the premises of a Delhi court, minutes before he was produced in a rape case.
A special National Investigation Agency court in Mumbai on Wednesday convicted six persons for possessing and circulating Fake Indian Currency Notes in May 2009.
Udayanidhi has handed over to the BJP one real issue to draw the line between it and the INDIA alliance, predicts N Sathiya Moorthy.
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