New Delhi: The body of a man, with one of his legs tied, was found stuffed inside a sack and dumped in a drain in Dwarka Monday. The partially decomposed body was recovered after a person cleaning the drain noticed it and alerted the police.Police suspect the deceased was around 25 years old and had…
New Delhi: Delhi govt will provide free rooftop solar systems to domestic consumers with average monthly electricity consumption of up to 400 units, with govt bearing the entire cost of the solar panels and their installation.The cabinet, chaired by chief minister Rekha Gupta, Tuesday approved the amendments to the existing solar policy to enable the…
New Delhi: Thirteen of Delhi’s 70 assembly constituencies have witnessed the deletion of over 40% of their registered voters from draft electoral rolls prepared under Special Intensive Revision (SIR).Tenants and migrant workers shifting houses have emerged as key factors behind this in the 13 seats: Tughlakabad (names of 47.8% voters deleted), Okhla (45.2%), RK Puram…
New Delhi: A 15-year-old girl from Kota, who had been visiting AIIMS Delhi from the age of two for a complex congenital heart defect, died in the hospital early Tuesday, 14 days after TOI reported her family’s long wait for corrective heart surgery.Tanvi was admitted to AIIMS about two weeks ago. TOI had reported on…
New Delhi: Inadequate fire-safety measures and an attempt to maximise profit by flouting building norms resulted in the loss of 23 lives in a devastating fire that tore through a bed and breakfast in south Delhi’s Hauz Rani on June 3, according to a chargesheet filed by Delhi Police Tuesday.Investigators named three accused in the…
New Delhi: Central govt will supply 1,000 metric tonnes of onions to Delhi, which will be sold to consumers at Rs 35 per kg through fair price shops and mobile vans, chief minister Rekha Gupta said Tuesday.The move is aimed at ensuring adequate availability of onions and preventing a shortage amid concerns over rising prices…
New Delhi: “We have still not been able to move on,” a relative of the Aggarwal family, eight of whose members were killed in the Hauz Rani B&B blaze on June 3, told TOI Tuesday.The eight had gathered at the B&B to meet family patriarch Radheshyam Aggarwal (76), who was undergoing treatment for an acute…
New Delhi: Over the past one year, National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) has helped commuters recover around 500 lost or forgotten belongings on the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Namo Bharat corridor. The recovered items included laptops, smartphones, iPads, important documents, trolley bags, vehicle keys, clothing, wallets and bags containing cash.“Passengers who lose their belongings while travelling on…
New Delhi: To make sure that money paid for public utilities is used only for the dedicated purpose, the Master Plan for Delhi 2047 has provided a ring-fenced mechanism to manage development charges through an escrow account in Transit Oriented Development (TOD) projects.This means that when a developer pays money to build roads, for example,…
New Delhi: Delhi Police have apprehended two Bangladeshi nationals, including a woman, in central Delhi for allegedly overstaying in India in violation of the 15-day-per-visit condition of their visas.According to police, the two were traced during a special verification drive being conducted under Operation VISTA 1.0. They have been identified as Jomir Hossen (25) and…
