Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit has announced a cut in value added tax ( VAT) for petrol by 20% resulting in a drop of Re 1.36 per litre in petrol price in the capital.

A major fire broke out on Sunday at a garment factory in east Delhi, a fire department official said.
Efforts are on to douse the flames in which no casualty has been reported so far, he said.

An explosion took place at a slum cluster in Allahabad on Wednesday afternoon, killing at least five people and injuring over 15 others.

Nearly Rs 400 crore worth of residential apartments by the Yamuna in Delhi's Commonwealth Games Village were lapped up in an auction on Monday, but the owner - Delhi Development Authority - managed to

Nupur Talwar, mother of slain teenager Aarushi Talwar, who is also an accused in the double murder case of Aarushi and the domestic help Hemraj now wants to adopt a baby girl.

Pune: Seven girls staying at a residential school run by the state government in Yerawada have finally broken their silence and accused the headmaster of making sexual advances.

MUMBAI: Pakistani gunman, Ajmal Kasab, has turned vegetarian in Arthur Road jail. Earlier, six police personnel who worked as cooks, provided him non-vegetarian fare occasionally.

The Mumbai Police busted an alleged rave party at a hotel in Juhu on Sunday night. At least 100 people including 38 women, mostly foreign nationals, were detained.

Bangalore: Five days after he was allegedly attacked, a Karnataka Administrative Officer, said to be a whistle-blower in some controversial land allotments by societies, died at a private hospital on

Patna: A 12-and-a-half-year-old boy from Bihar has cracked the highly competitive Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE).

The victim in the molestation case involving Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) player Luke Pomersbach on Saturday served a legal notice to team director Sidhartha Mallya for his alleged tweets on her

Three hundred women constables will soon be part of Mumbai police's traffic branch.

Arpit Agarwal, a student of Faridabad's Modern Vidya Niketan School, reportedly topped IIT-JEE 2012 with a score of 385 out of 401.

New Delhi: Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) player Luke Pomersbach is allegedly involved in a molestation case. The Delhi Police arrested Pomersbach in connection with the case.

New Delhi: A local court on Thursday rejected permission to Gurgaon Police to carry out the identification parade of the main accused in the BMW hit-and-run case, in which two persons were killed.