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.
Pankaj Gupta filed his nomination papers for the Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha seat, Atishi for East Delhi, Gugan Singh North West Delhi, Raghav Chadha South Delhi, Dilip Pandey North East Delhi and Brajesh Goel for New Delhi.
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.
The Delhi Anti-Corruption Branch on Tuesday registered three separate FIRs in an alleged PWD scam, including one against the company of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's late brother-in-law Surender Kumar Bansal.
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
All top ten candidates belong to the BJP.
It has also been decided to suspend the interstate bus services till March 31, the officials said. The decisions have been taken at a high-level meeting attended by chief secretaries of all states and the cabinet secretary and the principal secretary to the prime minister.
The BJP polled over 56 per cent of votes, more than the combined vote share of the Congress (22.5 per cent) and the AAP (18.1 per cent).
DCP (North West Delhi) N S Bundela said cash rewards will be given to anyone providing information about Mandeep (23), Ankit (22) and Nakul alias Nikku (21) -- who allegedly murdered Monica along with her husband Kuldeep on Sunday for marrying in another caste.
Delhi Bar associations' members said litigants are not allowed in due to security reasons.
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Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament and Dalit leader Udit Raj raised a few eyebrows on Monday with a tweet which suggested that champion Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt went on to win nine Olympics gold despite being born in poverty after his trainer advised him to eat beef twice a day.
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.
The new Lok Sabha will have 300 MPs who have been elected for the first time to the Lower House.
Five members of a family, including two children, were killed in an accident on Friday after a speeding SUV hit their car in north-west Delhi.The incident took place in Trinagar area, a senior police official said.All the five occupants of the car were killed in the accident, the official said, adding they suspect that the person behind the wheel of the SUV was under the influence of alcohol.The two girls who were killed in the accident died on the spot.
An Indian-American youth, who returned to New Delhi last month to pursue studies, was on Monday found murdered at his rented house in north-west Delhi. Kannan Mehra (21), who was pursuing philosophy course in Delhi University, was found with stab wounds on his neck at his residence in Hudson Lane in Mukherjee Nagar by his landlord, a senior police official said.
In the first phase of the Jat agitation, violence was witnessed in and around Mukherjee Nagar and Najafgarh areas.
The voter turnout is 1.28% higher than 65.86% polling in 2013 assembly polls.
Three suspected Babbar Khalsa terrorists were arrested in north-west Delhi early Monday morning, police sources said.
Their arrest comes amidst intelligence inputs of terrorist designs to carry out strikes in the capital during the celebrations.
A suicide note left by her said she was committing suicide because of her repeated failure in class tenth examinations.
The apex court also asked the the high courts to instruct the trial courts not to grant unnecessary adjournments during trial of cases.
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.
Unhappy over his daughter's love affair, a man allegedly shot her dead in broad daylight in a north-west Delhi.
A married woman was allegedly raped by two persons in a moving car in north west Delhi, police said Sunday.
The device, lying in a garbage heap in an isolated area in Model Town, went off when Ram Murti (50) and his two-year-old grandson picked it up.
In yet another incident of gang-rape in the national capital, a woman was criminally assaulted by 4 friends of her husband in north-west Delhi.
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Rahul Gandhi's experiment of choosing Congress candidates for Lok Sabha polls through the 'primary' system appears to have suffered initial hiccups with two constituencies being dropped from the list of 16.
The BJP had replaced Raj from the North West Delhi Lok Sabha constituency with Punjabi Sufi singer Hans Raj Hans.
Sources said valuation of all these assets was an ongoing process, and the mode and manner of disposal would be decided on a case-by-case basis
A Delhi consumer court has ordered a medical transcription education institute to pay compensation of Rs 10,000, along with refunding course fees of Rs 25,000, to each of the aggrieved 9 students for duping them by promising jobs after the training.
Nobody was injured in the firing at Lawrence Road at around 1 pm. The apparent target of the firing was a police inspector, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police R S Yadav said.
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As per the ministry's updated data on coronavirus cases Saturday morning, six fresh deaths were reported -- three from Maharahtra, two from Delhi and one from Gujarat.
In the second attack on him in the last four days, Arvind Kejriwal was on Tuesday slapped by an unidentified man during a road show in Sultanpuri area of North West Delhi and the Aam Aadmi Party leader immediately blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party for it.
Out of the seven, four belonged to one family from Delhi.
Asserting that the upcoming polls will be fought on the issue of full statehood, Kejriwal criticised Modi for not fulfilling this promise as mentioned in BJP's 2014 manifesto.
Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday visited the residence of the autorickshaw driver who had slapped him at a roadshow in Sultanpuri area of North-west Delhi and the Aam Aadmi Party leader said he has "forgiven" the man.
While Delhi boasts of one of the best metro systems in the world and decent infrastructure, reckless construction, legalising unauthorised colonies, and the worsening water and air quality dent its image of being a robust cosmopolitan city.
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