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The Delhi Police will interrogate the two Iranian suspects who were arrested in Bangkok in connection with the attack on an Israeli diplomat on February 13 in the Capital. The accused were part of the Bangkok module and were linked to the Delhi module. Police said they were sending letter rogatories to Thailand to question More >

Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport has once again emerged as the busiest in the country with an increase of nearly 6 million passengers compared to the last fiscal. According to an economic impact study of Delhi airport, “In terms of total passenger movements, Delhi airport handled more traffic than airports in Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. More >

Joining the campaign for municipal polls, BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday launched a blistering attack on Delhi government accusing it of involvement in large scale corruption, and promised a clean civic administration if his party was voted back to power. The BJP president released a dossier listing 35 alleged scams and cases of corruption More >

Kingfisher Airlines Ltd said it will halt international flights and fly just 20 planes as it seeks funding, hours after the government warned the carrier’s license may be canceled if it fails to meet safety norms and financial viability conditions. The embattled airline, which has debts of $1.3 billion, is scrambling to raise funds after More >

Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati in her nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha elections has shown two residential buildings, one each in Delhi and Lucknow. The market value of the two assets is Rs 77.54 crore. While the commercial buildings were purchased in 2004 and 2005, the residential accommodation in upscale SP Marg, New Delhi, More >

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today said it had rescued a 14-year-old minor girl who was missing from Darjeeling since November, 2011. A press release from the agency said its Anti-Human Trafficking Unit had, after receiving information about the missing girl, conducted an intensive search operation at various places and used special technical methods. More >

Union home minister P Chidambaram has said the magnet bomb attack in Delhi on Monday was an act of terrorism and that the Israeli diplomat’s wife was the obvious target. “We believe it was a very well trained person who committed the attack and the target was the Israeli diplomat’s wife. The investigations are on,” More >

Union Home Secretary R K Singh on Tuesday denied any difference between the Delhi Police and their Mumbai counterpart on the July 13, 2011, Mumbai triple blast probe. The clarification came a day after the Home Ministry criticised the Mumbai Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) for a goof up in pursuing the case and arresting an “informer” More >

The monorail is all set to come to the crowded east Delhi. In an attempt to decongest the city and get more people to use public transport, the Delhi government has given an in-principle approval to a 10.8km elevated monorail link between Shastri Park Metro station and Trilokpuri via Laxmi Nagar in east Delhi. This More >

The $90 billion Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC), is set to receive a boost with the visit of the Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, wherein Japan is likely to announce an investment of $4.5 billion, said top sources.