Suspended NDMC employee dies at forensic lab, family alleges foul play

Saturday 4 July '09

Virender Kumar Kaushik, one of the 17 officials of the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) suspended on alleged corruption charges...

Man jumps to death in police custody, family cries foul

Friday 3 July '09

Next 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...

5 held for Chirag Delhi murders, not habitual offenders, say families

Tuesday 30 June '09

Three days after the double murder in Chirag Delhi in South Delhi, the police arrested five of the 10 alleged murderers and are hunting for the other five.

Day after row over music, 3 youths killed in South Delhi

Sunday 28 June '09

A Minor row over music being played at a wedding party turned fatal on Friday night as three youths, including two cousins, were killed in South Delhi’s Chirag Delhi area.

Man commits suicide unable to bear the ‘Stoploss’ losses

Wednesday 24 June '09

A hundred metres from conman Subhash Aggarwal’s plush three-storeyed office in Satya Enclave in Outer Delhi, Ashok Gupta, 44, a victim of the fake investment scheme, committed suicide on Monday.

52 children rescued from zari units

Tuesday 23 June '09

Saibur Rehman (12) often missed his sister in Sarai Kale Khan, where he worked in a zari unit for 10 to 12 hours everyday, for Rs 35 a week, two meals a day, and access to a telephone.

Sunday book bazaar of Daryaganj is no more

Tuesday 23 June '09

Daryaganj wore a deserted look this Sunday. Gone was the hustle and bustle on the pavements, the yellowed texts stacked against walls, books piled up helter-skelter, hawkers shouting and book lovers, young and old, jostling through the crowds.

Picture-perfect plan crashes as con couple land in police net

Monday 22 June '09

It was the perfect con plan, but it never reached a photo finish.

Robberies on rise, petrol pump owners feel collection heat

Sunday 21 June '09

Sanjay Sharma, 42, is afraid each time he has to go to bank. Employed at a petrol pump in South Delhi, it’s his job to regularly visit the nearby bank to deposit the filling station’s collections.

GreenCity project turns out a dud, EOW probe on

Friday 19 June '09

Three years ago, IT consultant Raghav Khanna decided to find a home for his aging parents.

Dead man’s diary shows he was afraid of sons

Tuesday 16 June '09

When Satish Prakash (30) bludgeoned his reclusive father, Raghubir Singh (65), to death three days ago in the Alipur area...

Old no longer gold, collectors take a shine to new coins

Monday 15 June '09

On the pavements of a teeming Chandni Chowk, old curio stalls are selling glittering new coins. And it is the new coins that collectors seem to prefer over the old.

Meat sellers threaten strike, say will push it off Commonwealth Games platter

Saturday 13 June '09

Several meat associations in Delhi have threatened to go on strike just before the Commonwealth Games if they are not allowed to return to the Idgah slaughterhouse.

Battling a lean balance sheet, coffee house brews on — till next court hearing

Tuesday 9 June '09

Almost a heritage site for its patrons, the Indian Coffee House at Mohan Singh Place in Connaught Place will brew the hot beverage for some time at least.

Men with guns

Sunday 7 June '09

Uma Prasad Tiwari, 36, a farmer in UP, decided to pick up the gun two years ago when his crops began to fail and his family started to starve.

Security under probe: Stepping out of bank, 57-year-old loses bag, Rs 5 lakh

Tuesday 26 May '09

Hours after Rajmal Saha lost his bag with Rs 5 lakh to two speeding motorcyclists just as he stepped down the stairs of HDFC Bank in Rajouri Garden...

36 boys flee juvenile home

Friday 22 May '09

It was silent inside the juvenile home in Mukerjee Nagar area of Northwest Delhi on Thursday evening.

Homeward bound after shift, journalist attacked, left bleeding

Thursday 21 May '09

A journalist working with the Business Standard newspaper received serious injuries on his head when three men attacked him, “without any provocation”, around 10 pm on Tuesday when he was headed home after work.

5-yr-old dies shuttling between hospitals in West Delhi

Thursday 21 May '09

Injured in the dust storm that swept the city on Tuesday evening, a five-year-old girl fell victim to negligence and lack of infrastructure at two of West Delhi’s hospitals.

Catching them drunk: new HC mandate for pubs finds few takers

Wednesday 20 May '09

The High Court’s proposal — to deploy mobile police teams at exit points of bars to check drunken driving— can hardly be washed down with drinks by customers in the city’s bars and pubs.

Open sewer swallows 7-year-old in East Delhi

Monday 18 May '09

When she left home with her father to fetch water from a Delhi Jal Board tanker on Sunday morning, her family did not know seven-year-old Simran would never come back.

‘Mummy had cooked the food but we don’t know where she had gone’

Friday 15 May '09

In a dark, bare room sandwiched in a narrow congested lane in Sonia Vihar, Danish (12), flips channels to hear his mother’s name, once more.

Off to greener pastures on poll eve, defectors trigger confusion

Friday 8 May '09

As Shoaib Iqbal walked past the lanes of an almost deserted Chandni Chowk followed by a dozen supporters shouting pro-Congress slogans, Arif Ali, 22, stood clueless near the gate of the polling booth.

Story of a ‘serial rapist, killer’

Saturday 25 April '09

Two days after the arrest of the man who allegedly raped and killed her daughter, Gangmei’s room in Mahipalpur is locked.

Teachers failed to read dyslexic girl

Wednesday 22 April '09

The numerical ‘2’ is inverted, making it look almost like ‘5’; ‘4’ is written upside down; and ‘3’ changes shapes all through.