Many in the national capital cheered the arrest of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray Tuesday, though there were fears his "thugs" would let loose a reign of terror against innocent people in Maharashtra from outside the state.
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DELHI ONCE again had to cut a sorry figure for its policy of appeasement towards Kashmir Valley, whose leaders shared the tables with the all party team, but on Monday (August 11) the same sons of the soil held aloft Pakistan flags and big portrait of the founder of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah. Is it freedom of spe
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SIMI activist held in connection with Ahmedabad blasts
Sunday, 27 July , 2008, 17:26
New Delhi: An activist of the banned SIMI who was wanted in the 2002 Gujarat riots was arrested on Sunday from the walled city area after a combing operation for his alleged connections to the Ahmedabad blasts.
The crude oil crisis has made Delhi the country's busiest airport in terms of number of daily flight movements, beating Mumbai for the first time ever.
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Once upon a time in Mumbai, people threw gala parties. Their guests were known to deck up and flit across town from one shindig to another, magically changing ensembles on the way. DJs were demi-gods and the social circuit was forever buzzing with excitement. Then came in the dreadful deadlines and several other restrictions and ever since, Mumbai, the most happening city in India, seems to have
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New Delhi, June 3: After decades of bloodbath in the name of jihad or holy war, terrorists are changing gear and indulging in qattal, an act by which they kill even their own people, a top Pakistan leader said.
"Terrorists are now replacing the term jihad with the Islamic term qattal for their acts," Hasham Baber, additional secretary general of Pakistan's Awami National Party said.
25 Tibetans were arrested in India's financial capital Mumbai today as they tried to storm the Chinese consulate.
The protest came amid nationwide demonstrations by Tibetan exiles coinciding with the India leg of the Beijing Olympics torch relay, which is set to take place under tight security in the capital New Delhi.
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Mumbai and Delhi are among the 25 dirtiest cities in the world while the four Indian metros and Bangalore are among the 20 densest cities, according to the Forbes magazine.
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NEW DELHI: Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan is "very hurt" over the attacks on him by MNS chief Raj Thackeray, the actor's close friend and Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh said on Wednesday.
Singh said that he could, on behalf of Bachchan, state that the actor would leave Mumbai if it was proved that he has not done more for Maharashtra than for UP.
Real estate developers fear 30% to 50% increase in prices as well as demand for property in Mumbai, Pune, Nasik, Chennai and Bangalore, compared with the ongoing steady demand and prices in Delhi and the NCR region from March 2008 onwards.
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Shiv Sena on Monday sought that I-cards should be made compulsory in Mumbai too so that "outsiders" should not be allowed to enter the city without some sort of permit.
"The Delhi government has woken up to the threat posed by terrorists," an editorial in the party's mouthpiece Samana said.
NEW DELHI: Vivek Rangnekar, one of Mumbai’s own who is now settled in the US, has created the world’s first breed of super mice that are resistant to cancer, even the highly aggressive forms. rnrnDr Rangnekar, professor of radiation medicine at the University of Kentucky, who spent over 25 years of his life in Matunga, a central Mumbai suburb, created the breed with a more active tumour-suppr
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Mumbai has pipped Delhi as a city with the highest number of billionaires in the country. The latest list of richest Indians, compiled by Forbes magazine, has named 23 billionaires from Mumbai. Delhi accounts for only 12 such people.
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