”Delhi” News

Govt sets up land reforms panel after protests

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India said on Monday it is setting up a panel to resolve disputes over distribution and acquisition of land after violent protests by farmers who fear losing their land to build factories or mines.
10 30 2007 1:30AM (...more)

India's poorest march on capital

PALWAL, India (AFP) - A serpentine column of India 's poorest of the poor is moving across cities, determined to reclaim their land taken over in the name of the country's heady economic boom.
10 27 2007 1:41PM (...more)

Indian capital can't cope with monkey menace, mayor says

NEW DELHI (AFP) - The mayor of the Indian capital said that authorities could not deal with the scourge of violent monkeys, blamed for the death of a top city official over the weekend.
10 22 2007 9:42PM (...more)

India official dies after monkey attack

NEW DELHI - Wild monkeys attacked a senior government official who then fell from a balcony at his home and died Sunday, media reported.
10 22 2007 12:32AM (...more)

India's elderly fear for future

NEW DELHI (AFP) - Eighty-seven-year-old Indrani Warner sits in her room at one of India 's new homes for the elderly surrounded by the mementos of a lifetime.
10 18 2007 10:00AM (...more)

Imagine a world without gays, says gay Indian prince

RAJPIPLA, India (Reuters Life!) - Pumping the bellows of his harmonium, Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil performs with a purpose at the festival he puts on every year to celebrate homosexuality in India , where it is illegal.
10 9 2007 7:48PM (...more)

Court orders New Delhi to phase out 'killer' buses

NEW DELHI (AFP) - A New Delhi court on Monday ordered the city to submit a plan this week for phasing out speeding private buses that have claimed almost 100 lives in a spate of accidents this year, a report said.
10 9 2007 6:08AM (...more)

Hundreds block roads in Indian capital after bus kills seven

NEW DELHI (AFP) - Hundreds of angry protesters blocked roads in New Delhi after seven people were mowed down by a speeding bus, prompting fears of a major riot.
10 7 2007 9:03PM (...more)

Indian judge ordered back to law school

NEW DELHI - New Delhi's High Court justices, annoyed with lower court judges who issue problematic rulings, have decided to send one of them back to law school.
10 6 2007 5:57PM (...more)

Servants often the usual suspects in Indian crimes

NEW DELHI - The butler did it. In the West , it's a cheap way to end a second-rate whodunit. But in modern India, it's a common refrain for police. In a nation where nearly every middle-class family has servants — often entire
06 11 2008 4:19PM (...more)