The chief minister, however, justified the steep hike saying oil companies were incurring huge losses and the hike was necessary. She was on a private visit to Jammu.
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday made light of Team Anna's plans to make a foray into politics by fighting the Delhi Assembly polls next year saying all sorts of candidates including Independents contest the election.
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit was on Friday directed by a court in New Delhi to appear in person before it on November 9 in a defamation case filed by her against city BJP chief Vijender Gupta.
The more things change, the more they remain the same! That certainly appears to be the dictum by which the Congress party and its leadership lives and works.
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday handed over a cheque of Rs 15 lakh as ex-gratia to the father of the 23-year-old gang-rape victim.
In the wake of complaints of inadequate compensation to High Court blast victims, Delhi government on Tuesday set up a 'special cell' to address grievances of the affected people and facilitate their rehabilitation.
In order to end use of kerosene -- which often does not reach the intended beneficiaries -- the Delhi government on Tuesday launched an ambitious scheme, where about 3.5 lakh BPL and poor families will get free LPG cylinders and gas stoves.
AAP leader Sanjay Singh said Kumar, who serves as Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's principal secretary, has a clean service record that spans over 27 years, in which allegations of corruption were never made against him.
With the Comptroller and Auditor General reportedly accusing Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit of irregularities in awarding certain Commonwealth Games contracts, the Delhi government on Wednesday stoutly rejected the allegations, saying she never "intervened to favour" any firm and all due processes were followed in finalising the contracts.
"Devise a mechanism to resolve the issue amicably. This is not an issue which should be stretched further," Justice Kailash Gambhir said after being informed by the lawyers for two leaders that they could not sit across to settle the case.
As Congress received a drubbing in the Delhi municipal polls, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday sought to downplay the party's poor showing saying it was civic elections and could not be compared with anything else.
Sandeep Dikshit, Congress Member of Parliament and Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's son, on Tuesday attributed his party's defeat in the Delhi civic polls to a disconnect between the party and the people. He also claimed that an environment was created by reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the anti-corruption movement led by Anna Hazare that made people believe the Congress was at the "centre of all the wrong" that was happening.
"I am in the middle of serving somebody," a waitress at a United Kingdom coffee shop told David Cameron as she failed to recognise the prime minister and scolded him for jumping the queue. Cameron was on his way to the Armed Forces Day celebrations in Plymouth when he decided to stop for a coffee. He stunned locals by strolling into the Sandwich Box Plus cafe.
Slogans of 'Rahul ji, we are with you' and 'Please do not resign' rang through the air.
Delhi government has also decide to cut VAT on the hiked component of petrol.
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It was exactly 25 years when Mohammad Azharuddin-led India got the better of Sri Lanka in the final to win their fourth Asia Cup title, at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium, on April 14, 1995.
Yamla Pagla Deewana Phir Se has the wit of a goat, fumes Sukanya Verma.
Political heavyweights on Sunday kept away from a Buddhist meet which led to diplomatic tensions between India and China and an indefinite postponement of their border talks.
People in several states across the country smeared each other with colours, exchanged greetings and savoured sweets to celebrate Holi.
A health minister in the Sheila Dikshit government in the state, said he was quitting as he was upset over the ticket distribution ahead of the municipal corporation of Delhi polls.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday said the six serving United Progressive Alliance-appointed governors should quit on their own, as their appointments were without merit.
Anurag Thakur, chief of the Bhartiya Janata Yuva Morcha, has alleged that Home Minister P Chidambaram directed the Delhi police to lathicharge peaceful demonstrates of his party who were proceeding to the Parliament to demand Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's resignation for her role in the Commonwealth Games scam.
Dodging high security, scores of protesters of the Bharatiya Janata Party's youth wing on reached the outer gate of Parliament complex meant for VIPs, raising slogans demanding removal of Delhi Chief Minister.
The Commonwealth Games mess rocked Parliament for the second day on Tuesday as opposition National Democratic Alliance stalled the Question Hour in both the Houses and demanded resignation of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit in the wake Comptroller and Auditor General observations against her.
With the Opposition gunning for Sheila Dikshit, the Delhi government on Monday claimed that there was no indictment of the chief minister or any other political leader in the report on Commonwealth Games projects by the Comptroller and Auditor General. Noting that the government has gone through the report of the CAG, Delhi Transport Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely said it has neither indicted Dikshit nor any other political personality.
Upping the ante, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday demanded that the Central Bureau of Investigation file a case against Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on the basis of the report of Comptroller and Auditor General which indicted her for alleged irregularities in several Commonwealth Games projects.
The Comptroller and Auditor General on Friday dragged the Prime Minister's Office in the Commonwealth Games mess by saying that Suresh Kalmadi, who is jail for alleged irregularities, was appointed as Organising Committee chief at its behest in 2004 despite "serious objections" from within government.
The Congress vice president said the Indian Army works for the country and there was no need for any political leader to make comments against the army chief.
A day after the Congress suffered a huge set back in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi election, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit told CNN-IBN that she took full responsibility for the defeat.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday said it was too early to react to the Karnataka Lokayukta's report on illegal mining, which has indicted Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, and asked the Congress to first take action against those named in the Shunglu Committee and Delhi Lokayukta reports.
Sheila Dikshit, whose 15-year-old reign in Delhi was ended by Aam Admi Party in the assembly polls, on Monday made it clear that Congress support to it was "not unconditional".
Describing E Sreedharan as a man of great vision and impeachable integrity, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has said the Metro Man, who retires on Saturday, gave Delhi a "new identity" for which people of the city will always miss him.
The first batch of 900 pilgrims on Thursday left for Jeddah in three flights from the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi to attend the annual Haj pilgrimage.
Addressing a press conference at the AAP headquarters, senior party leader Manish Sisodia, who was the deputy chief minister in the outgoing government, said the cabinet ministers will also take oath along with Kejriwal.
Fears of the Congress not having a credible face, after the death of its three-time chief minister Sheila Dikshit last July, and ceding its vote bank to the Aam Aadmi Party came true with the Arvind Kejriwal-led party capturing the space once occupied by the grand old party.
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As the Aam Aadmi Party heads for a resounding win in Delhi, Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf lists the reasons behind Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's triumph.
"Frustrated" at not being able to address security concerns of Delhiites, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday demanded concrete measures to be taken to plug the loopholes in the security system exposed in the wake of the blast outside the Delhi high court.
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