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With Met department predicting 120 hours of dense fog till mid February, Delhi Airport is bracing up for winter woes by providing additional bays to function in low visibility, flight updates on social networking sites and better facilities for passengers in case of disruptions. “It is primarily dense fog that can affect the airline operations More >

Come 2016 and Delhi Metro is all set to achieve another feat. Once corridors under the proposed phase 3 is complete, Delhi Metro will become the seventh largest Metro network of the world, said officials of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC). Currently, there are more than 160 Metro systems in 54 countries across the world. More >

India has threatened to take action against global internet groups, including Facebook, Google and Twitter, after they refused to remove blasphemous and politically inflammatory material from their online platforms. Kapil Sibal, India’s telecommunications minister, said on Tuesday that over the past three months he had repeatedly asked social media executives to find mechanisms to monitor More >

Government of India statistics show that apart from being the national capital, Delhi is also the rape capital, with the highest number of rape cases (414) being registered in the city-state last year. Now, figures tabled in Parliament show, the city also enjoys the dubious distinction of being second-highest when it comes to number of More >

A 55-year-old person injured in the Sunday night fire at a community hall in north-east Delhi during a meeting of transgenders succumbed to injuries today, taking the death toll to 15 in the incident. Santosh from Kolkata, who had suffered 85 per cent burns in the Nand Nagri blaze, died at Guru Teg Bahadur hospital More >

The stage is all set for the India International Trade Fair 2011 (IITF) to be held at Pragati Maidan from today till November 27. This annual extravaganza conducted by India Trade Promotion Organisation is one of the world’s leading trade shows India International Trade Fair 2011 (IITF) is opening today with an array of products More >

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday wished the people of the national capital on the auspicious occasion of Chhath Puja, a major festival primarily celebrated in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. “First of all, I wish you all on the occasion of Chhath Puja from the bottom of my heart. May this festival bring not More >

Memon Iqbal Mohammed alias Iqbal Mirchi, underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s close aide and an accused in the 1993 serial bomb attacks on Mumbai who is ranked among the top 50 drug barons of the world, was arrested by London Police on Tuesday for a local offence in the UK. The 61-year-old Mirchi is wanted by More >

India on Tuesday signed three agreements with Afghanistan for a greater strategic partnership — especially in the security and oil sectors — to counter Pakistan and China. During Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai’s talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the issues of terrorism and terrorist sanctuaries in the region came up several times.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has its guns trained on Delhi, Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit in the Monsoon Session of the Delhi Assembly. On Monday 29 August, the House was adjourned, only hours into the first day of the Monsoon Session, because BJP MLA’s stormed out shouting slogans and protesting against the power tariff hikes. More >