Bailout scheme busted!

A man convicted of murder would not think twice before committing fraud. Disgraced IPS office Ravi Kant Sharma, convicted of plotting the murder of a woman journalist, has now been caught trying to obtain interim bail from the Delhi High Court by presenting prima facie forged medical documents.
Should the court find that the documents are [...]

Another reason why you shouldn’t drink & drive

Earlier, we told you about Delhi Traffic Police’s resolution to not let any drunk driver go scot-free during the Christmas and New Year bashes. There is one more development on that front. The traffic police is now planning to have magistrates with on-road squads so that the drunk drivers are tried on the spot.
Other than drink-driving, [...]

A sneak into Sheila’s “Look East” policy

East Delhi with its politicians is emerging as the most pampered part of the national capital. While the 2010 Commonwealth Games has made this part of Delhi the epicentre of infrastructure development, the sarkari force, too, is heavily tilted towards the East in Sheila’s new term.
East Delhi ministers A.K. Walia (Laxminagar) and Arvinder Singh Lovely [...]

Semester system for DU?

A proposal to introducing semester system for undergraduate courses in DU is under consideration. To prepare the ground, teachers are informally seeking opinion of the students regarding the implementation of this system. The University plans to establish the model on the lines of the semester system in JNU and IIT. The proposal is still in [...]

The last post

In step with the Army tradition, they appeared stoic as they watched Brigadier Ravi Datt Mehta on his final journey. But deep within, the slain hero’s wife Sunita, daughter Bhawana and son Udit were devastated by a numbing sense of loss. 
“My father was different. He was my hero and he will continue to remain [...]

Friday the 13th is Delhi’s horror day

The superstitious believe Friday the 13th brings the worst. It was 11 years back on this day that 59 people perished in a devastating fire inside the uptown Uphaar theatre where Hindi film Border was running to a packed house. Eleven years along, the city remembers the Uphaar dead today — once again, Friday the [...]

Don’t we know how to drive and save water? Our ministers say so!

Delhiites don’t know traffic rules. They don’t know how to drive or cross a road and they don’t know how to use water judiciously. This is what our minsters feel.
A fortnight after the BRT trial run began and the government failed to clean up the mess, the ministers are busy finding faults with the commuters. [...]

Moral policing?

The Pakistan Cricket Board is in a fix after allowing Misbah-ul-Haq to play for liquor baron Vijay Mallya-owned Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL as it is in conflict with its policy of discouraging players from associating themselves with alcohol brands.
Mallya owns the United Breweries group, manufacturers of leading alcohol brands in India, and Royal [...]

Not a fair deal

If you are white, and in Delhi, then things are not quite all right for you. Shopkeepers will fleece you, autowallah’s will overcharge you, and every Tom, Dick and Harry would want to guide you around the city for a hefty fee “in dollars”, if you please.
But really, can we criticise us hindustanis for ripping [...]

Is IPL’s aggressive cricket ruining the spirit of the game?

Forget boys like Sree, even men like Ganguly are playing mindgames.
Shane Warne, they say, was absolutely fuming when he entered the media briefing centre after Rajasthan Royal’s match against Kolkata Knight Riders in Jaipur on Thursday. The reason for his ire was Sourav Ganguly, and had the forlorn Prince of Kolkata been anywhere in the [...]