Sunday 27 September '09
Kobad Ghandy, who was arrested last week, was an upper-class, educated young man who took the rebel path in the 1970s. The Sunday Express profiles other such Naxalites who gave up a comfortable life for the sake of their ideology....Thursday 24 September '09
Kobad Ghandy, a key politburo member of the outlawed CPI (Maoist) in India who was arrested in Delhi, was in the national Capital for treatment of his prostrate cancer.Wednesday
23 September '09They had not seen him in years but today, when the frail, white-haired, 60-plus was being led away by police, many recognised Kobad Ghandy instantly.Saturday
19 September '09It was the 17th day of Ramzan and most people at Batla House in Jamia Nagar, South Delhi, had gone off to sleep after the morning prayers on September 19 last year.Sunday
13 September '09One encounter, two suspected militants killed, five alleged militants arrested, eight chargesheets filed, and unlimited controversy.Friday
11 September '09All muddy lanes of this village in Northeast Delhi lead to scenes of mourning today. Almost every locality has reported a death. Inside a small room, a mother wails with her children, in another, a young boy cries for his dead sister.Tuesday
8 September '09Fire department records say Old Delhi made more than 650 calls of fire between March 2008 and March 2009. The figure gives out the story of how tangled the Walled City is in its maze of loose wiring.Wednesday
2 September '09Outside the gates of the Indian Air Force base at Race Course road, hundreds of young boys are waiting-some walk around to pass time, others sit on the pavement fighting the muggy monsoon day with ice creams.Tuesday
25 August '09Inside Tihar jail, mornings will now mean yoga for prisoners and policemen alike, as the new prison directions make an hour of yoga every day compulsory.Saturday
15 August '09When the country was partitioned, Noorjehan was 13, playing hopscotch in her old courtyard in Delhi. She witnessed the horrors of Partition closely — her three step-sisters dead in Paharganj and her family cringing in fear each evening.Monday
3 August '09The licensing department has prohibited the India Trade Promotion Organisation from holding functions at the Pragati Maidan for lack of fire security.Saturday
1 August '09The stand-off between the Archaeological Survey of India and a section of the Muslim population in South Delhi’s Mehrauli area continues.Saturday
25 July '09The CSIR building which went up in flames on Thursday, killing two employees and seriously injuring two others, did not have the necessary fire security measures like emergency lighting, fire pumps and hydrants in working condition.Saturday
25 July '09When Jamia Nagar woke up to the Batla House encounter last year and called it “fake”, demanding a judicial probe into the incident, Salman Khurshid, then a lawyer, too expressed his reservations.Friday
24 July '09On a bed in their two-story home in Batla House, Zia ul Rehman’s youngest brother sits hunched over a Physics book, preparing for his BTech entrance exams.Friday
24 July '09Perched on a bed in their two-story home in Batla House, Zia ul Rehman’s youngest brother sits hunched over a Physics book, preparing for his BTech entrance exam.Tuesday
21 July '09A day after 28-year-old Deepika Bajaj was found burnt to death by police in her room, her family continues to hold on to their claim that her in-laws burnt her.Monday
20 July '09The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived at the Indira Gandhi International Airport amid multi-layered, Z+++ security — similar to that provided for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh — around noon on Sunday.Monday
20 July '09At the New Delhi Railway Station, the system of pre-paid auto-rickshaws remains in disarray. While drivers continue to demand varying rates — undeterred by police presence — commuters with pre-paid slips rarely find an auto.Friday
17 July '09The Ghazipur abattoir has run into a fresh spell of controversy yet again, with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi planning to outsource its operations to a private company.Friday
10 July '09For a few hours on Thursday, the Rohini District courts turned into a fortress, with hundreds of policemen holding the crowd at bay and scores others in riot gear, carrying tear gas guns.Wednesday
8 July '09A 35-year-old woman working as a help at an airhostess training institute in Lajpat Nagar-II was found murdered in the institute’s bathroom on Monday evening.Sunday
5 July '09Members of a minority community of the Rohini area offered Friday prayers under police cover yesterday following alleged clashes in the locality during prayers last week.Saturday
4 July '09Virender Kumar Kaushik, one of the 17 officials of the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) suspended on alleged corruption charges...Friday
3 July '09Next to Raja’s dead body kept on ice slabs, sits his wife Santoshi, 26. With her are their three daughters, Sanjana, 9, Karuna, 5, and one-year-old Anamika mourning their father...
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