Congress president Sonia Gandhi on her way to the polling booth along with Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit in New Delhi on Saturday. Photo: Shanker Chakravarty
Staff Reporter
 
NEW DELHI: Delhiites turned out in large numbers to vote for the 70-member Delhi Assembly on Saturday. Chief Electoral Officer Satbir Silas Bedi put the turnout at over 60 […]

Grief-stricken family members, friends break down while paying their last respects 

 
Funeral procession of the ATS Chief Hemant Karkare who died in terror attack.
Photo: Special arrangement
 Mumbai/Bangalore: Thousands of people poured into the streets on Saturday to bid a tearful adieu to the bravehearts, ATS chief Hemant Karkare and Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, who died while taking on […]

 Praveen Swami
 
MUMBAI: Forensic experts have determined that an e-mail claim of responsibility for Wednesday’s terror attacks issued by an until-now unknown terror group was first generated on a computer located in Pakistan. Issued by a group calling itself the ‘Deccan Mujahideen,’ the e-mail was sent out to TV newsrooms, minutes after the attacks in Mumbai.
Based […]

Obama calls up Manmohan, assures full support to counter terrorism

 
David. Mulford 
Sandeep Dikshit
 
NEW DELHI: The U.S. Administration has offered to be a part of the investigations into the Mumbai terror attacks even as its President-elect Barack Obama spoke to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh assuring full support to counter terrorism in India and expressing his deepest […]

 Constituency dons a festive look with all the shops open

An old man being taken to a polling station to cast his vote, for Delhi Assembly election, at Chandni Chowk contituency, in New Delhi on Saturday.
Photo: Shanker Chakravarty
Devesh K. Pandey
 
NEW DELHI: The ten Delhi Assembly segments falling under the Chandni Chowk parliamentary constituency witnessed a heavy […]

Launches group policy for Tower Infotech 

V. Ramasaamy
Special Correspondent
KOLKATA: The recession-hit automobile industry is impacting the business of insurance companies especially the ones for whom auto insurance constitutes a bulk of the business portfolio. However, there may be a rush by corporates to take terrorist coverage in the wake of India’s worst terrorist attack. […]

Delhi’s hopes rest on Sehwag and Bhatia; incisive spell by Ishant 
 
Dhiraj Singh of Orissa has no clue to this one from Delhi pacer Ishant Sharma. 
Photo: Sandeep Saxena
Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI: Delhi was clueless against swing. Orissa could not cope with pace. Twenty-four wickets fell on the opening day of the Ranji Trophy super […]

Hamid Ansari, Rahul Gandhi among the first ones 

 
 Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and husband Robert Vadra waiting to cast their votes in New Delhi on Saturday. Photo: V. Sudershan
 
 Smriti Kak Ramachandran
 
NEW DELHI: Vice-President Hamid Ansari was the first to cast his vote at the Nirman Bhavan polling station for the Delhi Assembly elections on Saturday morning. Accompanied […]

Romanticism Interrupted, an exhibition of paintings by two British artists, Natasha Kissell and Natasha Law, explores moments of surprise and revelation in nature and the human body. The exhibition is on at The Viewing Room Gallery, Mumbai, till December 6. 

Clockwise from top, Natasha Kissell’s “Valley of Beating Wings”; Natasha Law’s “Olive Dress on Blue” […]

We have nothing to hide, says Foreign Minister Qureshi
 
Nirupama Subramanian
 
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday said his government would act against any group or individual based in this country if there was evidence of their involvement in the Mumbai attacks, even though its ability to deliver on the promise was in doubt […]