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Delhiites today got much needed relief from the scorching sun with the maximum temperature dropping below normal level, a day after night temperatures broke a 41-year-old high and a dust haze made life miserable. The maximum was recorded at 39 degree Celsius, down from yesterday’s 41.2 degrees while the minimum dropped to 28.4 degrees from More >

The much-debated grade system by the Central Board of Secondary Education for Class X, which was introduced this year, garnered a mixed response in the city schools. While some students were relieved of the stress and competition emanating from the marks system, others were unhappy with their getting bracketed with those performing not as well. More >

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan is known for his love for Delhi. On Wednesday, he revealed this deep found love for the capital city, when he arrived here and was greeted warmly by the fans. The city of his birth is also the one where he started earlier carrier and enjoyed his school days,

The incidence of crime is under control in the capital and police are prepared to tackle any security challenges during the Commonwealth Games in October, Delhi Police Commissioner Y.S. Dadwal said Friday. “Crime in Delhi is under control. The police have certain plans to provide security during the Games,” Dadwal told reporters. He said securing More >

NEW DELHI: As investigations deepen into how Ms Madhuri Gupta became a ‘spy’, questions are also being directed at the external affairs ministry over selection of the 53-year-old for a posting to Islamabad.

A New Delhi court sentenced three members of a Kashmiri rebel group to death on Thursday for their role in the 1996 bombings at a busy market in the Indian capital that killed 13 people, news reports said. Mohammed Naushad, Mohammed Ali Bhatt and Mirza Nissar Hussain — all members of the Jammu-Kashmir Islamic Front More >

Reeling from the worst-ever financial crisis that threatened his company and state a few months ago, Emaar Properties Chairman Mohammed A. Alabbar said his Indian collaboration Emaar MGF, where Emaar holds a 40 per cent stake, is not looking at low-cost, low-budget houses in India. On a hot summer’s day, Alabbar was cool and composed.

When Hui Liangyu, China’s vice-premier, visited New Delhi last week he was presented with a miniature silver chariot pulled by two horses. The horses, his hosts quipped, represented China and India pulling the global economy into recovery.

Indian Defense Minister A.K. Antony said yesterday that his nation’s nuclear-armed rival Pakistan has not done enough to suppress extremists operating within its territory, United Press International reported (see GSN, March 16). Antony said Pakistani-based extremists were drilling and preparing to carry out attacks on Indian targets. New Delhi blames Lashkar-e-Taiba, which operates out of More >

As India strives for safe neighbourhood with intensified engagements with its neighbours, an India- Bangladesh Security Dialogue is being organised later this week in Delhi by two premier think tanks of these countries. The Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI), Dhaka, led by former Foreign Secretary Mr. Farooq Sobhan, has joined Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, in More >