The India Meteorological Department has issued an orange alert for Himachal Pradesh. NEW DELHI: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert for Himachal Pradesh on Monday as heavy to very heavy rain is expected in parts of the state.Heavy to very heavy rainfall in Uttarakhand, east Rajasthan and west Madhya Pradesh, while…
The heat index or ‘feels-like temperature’ increased to 44.7°C at 2.30 pm. The maximum had remained below 30°C for two consecutive days: 27.6°C Thursday and 27.5°C Friday. NEW DELHI: The city recorded its wettest 24 hours in Aug in two years after logging 98.7 mm of rainfall from 8.30am Friday to 8.30 am Saturday. Higher…
The smash-up happened around 8 am on the narrow road in front of Gate No. 1 of Himalaya Apartment in Mamurpur. NEW DELHI: A 70-year-old woman who was feeding birds and insects on the roadside Saturday morning was killed when a head-on crash between a Mercedes-Benz and a WagonR sent the smaller car into a…
New Delhi: Four armed men allegedly held an elderly couple hostage in their bungalow and assaulted them before fleeing with cash and valuables worth over Rs 1 crore in north Delhi’s Roop Nagar early Friday.Taresh Baisiwala (74) runs an auto-parts business in Kashmere Gate and lives with his wife, Archana (70). Both sustained minor injuries.At…
New Delhi: Urmila Bhardwaj, a 70-year-old resident of Mamurpur village in Outer Delhi, who was killed after being trapped between two vehicles Saturday morning, was known as a deeply religious woman and an avid animal lover. Caring for stray animals and birds was an integral part of her daily routine.According to her family, Urmila’s mornings…
New Delhi: DDA has initiated a comprehensive project to modernise street lighting on master plan roads in Dwarka as part of its road infrastructure revamp. The project will cost nearly Rs 10 crore and the deadline for completion is this Oct.Officials said that the project is in progress and taken up as Dwarka witnesses the…
New Delhi: The Delhi govt has started the process to roll out direct bus services to Bihar, with the transport department proposing an inter-state reciprocal transport agreement with the state to connect 18 destinations there with the national capital.The draft agreement proposes stage carriage services on routes linking Delhi with Patna, Gaya, Darbhanga, Muzaffarpur, Bhagalpur,…
New Delhi: Delhi Laxmi Yojana has received more than five lakh registrations within a week of its launch, with the North East district recording the highest number of beneficiaries who have entered their details, while North West has emerged as the second-biggest contributor among the districts.According to district-wise data available Saturday afternoon, 5,14,460 women had…
New Delhi: A police complaint has been filed against a security guard at AIIMS after a video purportedly showing him inappropriately touching a female patient went viral on social media. Following the incident, AIIMS terminated the guard’s services and imposed a penalty on the private security agency that had employed him.In the video, the guard,…
New Delhi: A 32-year-old man posing as an IGI Airport employee allegedly lured a woman with a fake cabin crew job for her 20-year-old son and cheated her of around Rs 3 lakh through 16 UPI transactions. The accused was arrested Thursday.The scam came to light after police received a complaint from the woman, a…
