Former Delhi Congress chief Ram Babu Sharma dead

July 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A 23-year-old student of journalism allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan at his home in Timarpur area of north Delhi late Monday night, police said Tuesday. The youngster, identified as Chaturvesh Sharma, was found hanging from a ceiling fan in a room when his parents and other family members returned home from their relatives house around 11 p.m., police officials said.

May 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress made it a clean sweep in the national capital winning all the seven seats. Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit's son and Congress candidate Sandeep Dikshit defeated Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Chetan Chauhan, a former Test cricketer, by a whopping 241,051 votes.

May 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress candidates Ajay Maken and J.P. Agarwal Saturday won from the New Delhi and northeast Delhi Lok Sabha constituencies, respectively.

May 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress party Saturday won the assembly by-election from the Rohtas Nagar constituency by over 20,000 votes. Congress candidate Vipin Sharma defeated Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Divya Jaiswal by 23,547 votes.

May 6th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - In separate incidents, a money lender and a woman were shot dead by unidentified assailants here Wednesday, police said. Ajay Sharma, 32, engaged in money lending business, was shot dead by assailants just outside his Vaishali Sector-3 home in Ghaziabad when he was returning from Mandawali in Delhi.

May 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Alleged derogatory and communal remarks against a particular community landed B.L. Sharma, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate for northeast Delhi constituency, in a trouble Tuesday.

April 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress spokesperson and Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma on Tuesday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Lal Krishna Advani of politicising the issue of terrorism. "Advani is adopting double standards on the issue of terrorism.

April 20th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Senior Congress leader and Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma on Monday slammed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Lal Krishna Advani for repeatedly calling Manmohan Singh a 'weak Prime Minister'. "When Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Dr.

April 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - They fought the 2004 Lok Sabha elections against each other. But now they are campaigning together for the 2009 polls.

April 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Babu Jagjivan Ram's 102nd birth anniversary is being celebrated on Sunday. To pay homage to him, a sarvadharma (all religion) prayer meeting was held in New Delhi on Sunday morning.

March 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - After Mohammed Azharuddin, it was the turn of another former India cricketer Madan Lal to join the Congress Party. The all-rounder joined the party at a function in the capital Saturday.

March 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission Wednesday announced byelection in the Rohtash Nagar assembly constituency in Delhi following the death of Congress leader Ram Babu Sharma. The byelection will be conducted on May 7 - the same day the Lok Sabha polls will be held in the capital.

January 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Ram Babu Sharma, Congress legislator from north east Delhi's Rohtas Nagar constituency and a former Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC) chief, died early Wednesday after cardiac arrest. He was 53. Sharma, survived by wife and three children, was cremated in the capital.

January 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The funeral processions of former president R. Venkataraman and former Delhi Congress chief Ram Babu Sharma Wednesday threw traffic in the national capital out of gear, leading to jams and snarls for many hours at various points.

January 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Former Indian Police Services (IPS) officer R.K. Sharma, convicted in the murder of journalist Shivani Bhatnagar, is facing the charge of forging medical documents for procuring bail.