New Delhi: Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs), housing societies and organisations working for senior citizens can now apply for financial assistance under Delhi govt’s Vayo Anand scheme, following its notification in the Delhi Gazette.The social welfare department has opened the application process to support senior citizen recreation centres and meet their day-to-day expenses.The annual grant can…
New Delhi: Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has identified 200 parks across its 12 zones for additional security measures following a recent meeting with the Union home secretary.The civic body has been asked to submit a status report to central govt within a week and complete the safety work by Dec-end. The move follows an…
New Delhi: Residents will soon have dedicated kiosks across Delhi to dispose of damaged idols and worship materials, with the city administration planning 250 such facilities across Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) wards to curb dumping in public spaces and water bodies.The initiative will be implemented by MCD in collaboration with Plastindia Foundation. A memorandum…
New Delhi: A woman can be charged along with men for the offence of gang rape even if she herself has not committed the physical act but has facilitated it, Delhi High Court held Thursday.Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani passed the judgment while upholding a trial court’s decision to frame charges against a woman accused of…
New Delhi: Delhi Police Thursday submitted that no FIR needed to be filed against chief minister Rekha Gupta over alleged derogatory remarks about Lord Hanuman. The speech, when viewed in its entirety, “disclosed no cognisable offence”, it said.The action-taken report, placed before additional judicial magistrate Ashwani Panwar, said the complaint relied on “selectively quoted portions…
New Delhi: A supplementary chargesheet filed by Delhi Police in the death of 25-year-old Kamal Dhyani, who was killed after his motorcycle fell into a 15-foot-deep pit dug by the Delhi Jal Board (DJB), has recorded the presence of alcohol in his blood sample, according to a Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) report.According to the report,…
New Delhi: Broken boundary walls, missing CCTV cameras, and no security guard in sight.Following the Aastha Kunj Park gang rape last month that sparked concerns over women’s safety in city parks, Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) announced plans to develop pink parks in every ward. However, a spot check by TOI of three existing facilities…
New Delhi: BJP Thursday reacted furiously to AISA national president Neha Bora’s praise of Bangladesh’s Gen Z movement.In a video message for a students’ event in Bangladesh, Bora reportedly said that the Gen Z movement seen “everywhere” in India first started in the neighbouring country and congratulated them. She claimed that the movement that began…
New Delhi: To prevent CNG vehicles without a valid cylinder hydrotest certificate from refuelling, Indraprastha Gas Ltd (IGL) Thursday launched an artificial intelligence-enabled vehicle recognition system at 10 CNG stations in the capital.The system uses station cameras to capture vehicle registration numbers, which are processed through an AI application linked to the online Petroleum and…
New Delhi: A Rs 15.7-crore Delhi Police tender for 338 CCTV cameras with facial recognition capabilities across Central and New Delhi has come under the spotlight, with sources in police saying it was part of a modernisation plan conceived two years ago and had no connection with the July protests.Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), in an…
