New Delhi: A three-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by a school cab driver in outer Delhi’s Bawana, following which police arrested the suspect.The suspect, identified as Vikas, has six criminal cases, including those of theft, police said.The cops got information about the alleged assault on Aug 24. The girl is a student of a…
New Delhi: For four days, Mahmood Farooqui sat in an almost empty room inside Tihar Jail. There was no cast, no script reading, and little indication that his idea of starting a drama class behind bars would work out as a liberating catharsis.Then three or four prisoners came. More followed. Months later, inmates who had…
A 16-year-old girl was gang-raped on a moving sleeper bus in Delhi. Advocate Seema Kushwaha highlighted similarities to the Nirbhaya case NEW DELHI: After the alleged gangrape of a 16-year-old girl inside a moving sleeper bus came to light, advocate Seema Kushwaha drew parallels with the 2012 Nirbhaya case and questioned how the bus was…
Chief minister Rekha Gupta and PWD minister Parvesh Verma attended an MoU signing ceremony with private firms for the beautification and maintenance of public spaces, in New Delhi on Aug 31, 2026. New Delhi: Neglected spaces beneath Delhi’s flyovers and along major roads are set for a makeover under a public-private partnership initiative, with Delhi…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court Monday ordered release of a double-murder convict serving a life sentence after incarceration for 20 years.Justice Girish Kathpalia underlined that the decision was “rooted” in the philosophy propagated by ancient texts such as the Rig Veda, Kautilya’s Arthashastra and the Dandashastra, as he stressed that reformation of criminals, and not…
New Delhi: Directorate of Education (DoE) has done away with the requirement of a fixed minimum land area for recognition, its extension and upgradation to unaided private schools in the capital, according to a recent order.The order states that the directorate has withdrawn the earlier requirement prescribing a fixed minimum land area as a condition…
New Delhi: Delhi’s govt hospitals are set to get 400 additional critical-care beds, with Public Works Department (PWD) planning dedicated critical-care blocks at five hospitals across the city.The proposed facilities will come up at Bhagwan Mahavir Hospital, Maharshi Valmiki Hospital, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital and Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied…
A heartbreaking incident in Greater Noida has emerged, where a 16-year-old girl was reportedly gang-raped by a bus driver and conductor NEW DELHI: A 16-year-old girl who boarded a sleeper bus in Greater Noida on a rainy night, believing it would take her to her cousin’s home in Noida, was allegedly gang-raped by its driver…
Delhi SIR draft voter list is out (Representative image) NEW DELHI: The draft electoral roll prepared under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Delhi was published on Monday, leaving out more than 47 lakh of the 1.45 crore electors on the existing roll.Voters whose names are missing can file claims for inclusion between August 31…
A three-year-old boy was allegedly assaulted at the educational facility NEW DELHI: The Delhi government has initiated proceedings to seal a playschool in Maujpur where a 3-year-old boy was allegedly assaulted, the chief minister’s office said on Monday.The action was taken on the directions of chief minister Rekha Gupta, news agency PTI reported.The district magistrate…
