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Cong gains in north, JDS holds south

Thursday 9 May '13

Among all its gains across Karnataka, it is perhaps the near-total sweep of Mumbai-Karnataka and the Hyderabad-Karnataka regions

Despite fast-track courts, rape conviction rate still low

Monday 6 May '13

Authorities admit that due to hurried trials, a fair share of convictions are overturned in the HC

Govt to allocate 7,000 EWS houses by June

Thursday 2 May '13

Pre-poll move Surveys being conducted in jhuggi jhopri clusters across city to identify beneficiaries.

Govt can't decide who is poor, so 14,000 new flats vacant for 5 years

Wednesday 1 May '13

In 2008, the Delhi government completed the construction of around 14,000 flats that were to be allotted to people belonging to the economically weaker sections.

More noise than voice in protests

Friday 26 April '13

Unlike the focused expression of public anger following the December 16 gangrape, last week''s protests that followed the rape of a five-year-old child in East Delhi

Medical board to check Bhullar''s mental health

Wednesday 24 April '13

Delhi Health department has constituted a three-member medical board under a professor of psychiatry from AIIMS to look into the mental fitness of death row convict Devinderpal Singh Bhullar.

Medical board formed to check Bhullar''s mental health

Wednesday 24 April '13

Health department sources confirmed that the board, headed by Dr S K Khandelwal from AIIMS, includes one psychiatrist each from Maulana Azad Medical College and GB Pant Hospital.

The making of a tycoon

Sunday 14 April '13

What is evident is that Deepak Bhardwaj's family, from brothers back in a Haryana village to wife and sons in Delhi, saw little of it.

Coming next year, a breather for Tihar Mandoli Jail

Friday 12 April '13

The inmate load on Tihar Jail is expected to lessen next year as the Mandoli jail complex in Northeast Delhi nears completion.

Free travel has Bengali migrants rushing home to vote

Monday 8 April '13

The Trinamool-led state government and the West Bengal State Election Commission are still bitterly contesting the scheduling of the panchayat elections in West Bengal, but the state''s migrant labour...

Govt responsible for upkeep of toilets, but civic bodies take the stink

Monday 8 April '13

What began with transfer of roads from the local bodies to the city government has now progressed to sanitation in slum clusters as well.

As elections close in, turf war over city''s amenities begins

Monday 8 April '13

Ahead of the Assembly elections in a few months, the Sheila Dikshit-led Congress government seems to be on a 'visibility'' spree.

Sonepat village knows its son Devi Singh Khati, not crorepati Deepak Bhardwaj

Friday 5 April '13

Bhardwaj left village for Delhi in 1970, in search of wealth, power and fame, and never looked back.

Deepak Bhardwaj, one of richest BSP candidates to contest LS polls

Wednesday 27 March '13

Bhardwaj contested in the 2009 elections on a BSP ticket finishing third.

Stenographer who became one of richest candidates to contest Lok Sabha polls

Wednesday 27 March '13

From an innocuous stenographer in the Sales Tax department in the early seventies Deepak Bhardwaj went on to become one of the richest candidates to ever contest a parliamentary election.

A Special Cell that shoots from the hip

Tuesday 26 March '13

The Delhi Police''s Special Cell has yet again come under criticism for ostensibly jumping the gun after a counter-terror operation in the national capital

Half of Delhi homes have more than five people living together

Wednesday 20 March '13

Economic Survey Northeast Delhi ranked highest in population category with 37,346 persons/ sqkm.

Infosys pays Rs 20 lakh to staffer it sacked over blast probe

Monday 18 March '13

Rashid was picked up and later released by Rajasthan cops probing 2008 Jaipur blast case

To stay in the House, BJP to adopt 'controlled aggression''

Thursday 14 March '13

The new strategy was put into effect on Wednesday.

BJP targets CM at Women''s Day meet

Saturday 9 March '13

Party claims she recommended parole for two rape convicts, Sheila rejects allegation

Summer approaching, ask Haryana to release water: Sheila to Centre

Thursday 7 March '13

With summers approaching, and with it the shortage of water supply in the national capital, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has written to the Ministry of Water Resources, demanding that Haryana r...