Facing a fund crunch, the Delhi Government has sought an additional Rs 1,000 crore from the Centre to complete the key infrastructure projects related to next year's Commonwealth Games in the city.
Here's a recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
At the Iftar event hosted by him on Sunday evening, the Delhi chief minister said there were no "hard feelings" between them and that the "sour relationship" should end to ensure effective governance and development in the national capital.
The 3, Motilal Nehru Place type VIII bungalow, spread over 2.5 acres, was vacated by former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit recently.
India is "very important" for America's foreign policy and crucial for the stability and peace in the region, an influential US lawmaker said on Thursday. "India is a very important part of the United States foreign policy," Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, who is co-chair of the Congressional caucus on Pakistan and heads the Afghan caucus said at a panel discussion in Washington.
The 'India-Pakistan Peace Resolution', introduced by Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee lists peace initiatives and talks between the two countries from the time of the then Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to the September 16, 2006 joint statement issued by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the then Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf.
Tragedy struck a government secondary school in Delhi on Thursday when five girls were killed and 27 other students injured, six of them very critically, in a stampede.
While Sheila Dikshit, chief minister of Delhi registered an unprecedented third victory in the assembly elections, Vijay Kumar Malhotra the Bharatiya Janata Party's chief ministerial candidate is still trying to come to grips with the hard realities of life.
'Modiji and the BJP have hoodwinked the nation by their machinations.' 'We have not been able to convince the electorate about Modiji's deceit.'
The decision to decrease VAT on diesel from 20 per cent to 12.5 per cent was taken at a cabinet meeting today presided over by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.
The BJP had replaced Raj from the North West Delhi Lok Sabha constituency with Punjabi Sufi singer Hans Raj Hans.
Poonam, the wife of cricketer-turned-politician Kirti Azad, was lobbying for Patparganj constituency in east Delhi. She came to the BJP central headquarters and submitted her resignation after the seat was alloted to Nakul Bharadwaj, a former student's leader
'Mr Kejriwal has played it cool in distancing himself from Delhi's hotspots, adroitly pandering to the BJP's Hindu vote.' 'He neither visited the scene of JNU violence nor has he dropped by at Shaheen Bagh,' notes Sunil Sethi.
President Pratibha Patil, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday paid homage to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 17th death anniversary. Amid a continuous drizzle, the departed leader's widow and Congress President Sonia Gandhi, along with her son Rahul and daughter Priyanka Vadra, reached his memorial 'Vir Bhumi' to pay their tributes. A prayer meeting was organised in the premises of the memorial.
Amateur filmmaker Anubhav Srivastava on how his unique film project changed his life.
So when Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit was felicitating the bravery award winning children, Rahul was forced to stay indoors. Three plain-clothed policemen were hand-picked by the special branch to ensure that the media never had a glimpse of the teenager.
The implementation of conditional access system in Delhi has been postponed indefinitely.
Congress's UP chief ministerial candidate Sheila Dikshit and Ghulam Babi Azad will also be present in the roadshow.
Many leaders who appealed to Gandhi to stay argued that their political futures depended on his presence in the party and hence he must stay.
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and her senior party leaders today faced the wrath of the Delhi Chief Electoral Office for alleged violation of model code of conduct at an election campaign.
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The Congress on Monday created history in Delhi by winning Assembly elections for a third consecutive term, overcoming anti-incumbency and fear of Mumbai terror attacks costing it votes.
Arun Jaitley, New Delhi's media's most favourite analyst on days of election results, was less effusive than usual on Monday.
Within the next two years the national capital will have its own IT hub aiming to foster industry-institute partnership in the areas of advanced technology research in the city.
"I congratulate the people of Delhi and many thanks to them for their support and affection for the Congress," the 77-year-old leader said in her residence as jubilant party supporters danced to drumbeats and burst firecrackers.
The BJP has not only lost but its entire stance on terrorism stands exposed. It will need many 'chintan baithaks' for the party leaders to find out why the voters have not bought their serious and quite justifiable allegation of the Congress being 'soft on terror'.
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and five of her cabinet colleagues were among the successful candidates of Congress in the keenly contested electoral battle for the 70-member House.
BJP candidate Vijay Jolly today went to the residence of his electoral rival Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit to seek her vote.
In an exclusive interview to rediff.com, the Delhi chief minister said, "I begin my day as early as six in the morning and continue campaign work till late night. First thing in the morning, I decide my strategy for the day and then pass on instructions for the staff to follow."
Meanwhile, Sheila Dikshit said that the Congress needed aggressive campaignin and nobody asked her for campaigning.
65-year-old Sathasivam, whose appointment triggered debate in legal and political circles on the propriety of giving gubernatorial assignment to a former CJI, is the 23rd governor of the state.
Narayanasamy had served as the minister of state in the Prime Minister's Office in the second United Progressive Alliance government, after being minister of state, Parliamentary Affairs, in the first UPA government.
Rejecting arguments that the Centre's move to suspend demolition and sealing in Delhi will invite the court's ire, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Saturday said the decision was taken considering "ground realities."
With the assembly elections just a couple of months away, the Congress government in Delhi has approved the long-standing demand of the Jain community for minority status."The Jain community in Delhi has been accorded minority status. It has already been granted minority status in several other states," Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said on Tuesday after a Cabinet meeting, which approved the decision.The Jain community constitutes around 2 per cent of the population.
"The decision of Delhi government to make ID proof mandatory will hit thousands of migrant labourers from Bihar going to Delhi in search of a livelihood," the protestors said.
The jury members included Ashish Dhawan, senior managing director, ChrysCapital, Keki Dadiseth, managing director, Omnicom, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, chairman and managing director, Biocon, Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman and managing director, Aditya Birla Group and S Ramadorai, chief executive, TCS.
Chennai-born Nooyi has moved up to the third rank in this year's list, from the fifth last year, to become the top-ranked among all the corporate chiefs on the list.
Activists have been meeting all important people concerned with the construction to explain them the environment risks involved in the project but they have been shocked to see the involvement of some big names of New Delhi behind the project.
He has been washing the clothes of MPs all his life. But now, he has entered the electoral fray against Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit saying that he wants to 'wash away' discrimination against the poor.
Political heavyweights may be still recovering from the tectonic changes brought about by the Delimitation Commission headed by Justice Kuldip Singh after about six years' labour, but to those who have watched this barrister who came from Chandigarh to be elevated almost immediately to the bench of the Supreme Court in 1988, it was not a surprise.
