New Delhi: The city saw another hot and humid day, with the heat index, or “feels-like” temperature, touching 42.5 degrees Celsius on Friday at 2.30 pm. The air temperature is likely to remain between 37 and 39 degrees Celsius over the next few days, according to India Meteorological Department (IMD).On Friday, city’s base station Safdarjung…
New Delhi: Delhi forest department has now imposed a fine of Rs 15.3 lakh on DCM Limited for illegal felling of three trees and victimisation of 67 trees at Central Square Complex on Manohar Lal Khurana Marg in 2024. DCM Limited has also been asked to plant 50 saplings of native species as compensatory plantation.The…
New Delhi: Delhi Police, in the fifth edition of Operation CyHawk, has arrested 916 people and taken legal action against 4,290 people.The 48-hour nationwide operation ran from 8 am on June 16 and to 8 am on June 18. All 15 district police units, along with the intelligence fusion and strategic operations (IFSO) unit and…
New Delhi: What began as a routine day at home turned into a medical emergency for a 19-month-old child who accidentally ingested mosquito-repellent liquid, leading to life-threatening lung injury and a prolonged battle for survival.The child was rushed to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital after reportedly accessing a mosquito-repellent refill bottle and consuming some of the…
New Delhi: For most parents, giving their children a future is a lifelong commitment. In an exemplary reversal of roles, an 18-year-old son gifted his father a second chance at life by donating one of his kidneys, overcoming what doctors described as a complex surgery.Ahead of Father’s Day on June 21, the story of 49-year-old…
New Delhi: In a move aimed at reducing winter air pollution through advance planning rather than emergency interventions, Delhi govt Friday notified a Proactive Winter Air Quality Management Framework, outlining a series of measures that could be implemented annually between Nov 1 and Feb 28.The framework, announced by chief minister Rekha Gupta, seeks to give…
New Delhi: A former Punjab Police officer and an employee of a Delhi-based defence entrepreneur has been arrested for allegedly conspiring to extort Rs 10 crore from the businessman by sending death threats through a messaging app.The case was initially registered at Chanakyapuri police station after the entrepreneur reported receiving threatening messages from international numbers…
New Delhi: Police have launched an investigation after receiving a complaint that fraudsters sought donations for a senior scientist’s wife’s heart transplant by circulating emails from a forged ID in the name of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) director general.According to the complaint, unknown persons created the email ID and impersonated the secretary…
19 All woman police station New Delhi: Lieutenant governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu on Friday inaugurated the capital’s first all-women police station (WPS) in north Delhi’s Subzi Mandi area, a facility dedicated to investigating crimes against women and children.The police station, operational from June 19, has jurisdiction over the entire North district and has subsumed the…
New Delhi: Mukesh, a 40-year-old truck driver, and wife Reema, a 38-year-old homemaker, were a childless couple in Gwalior. Married for at least eight years, they wanted a baby.They had done the rounds of IVF centres and hospitals. Nothing had worked out. Their treatments sometimes brought them to Delhi-NCR. During one such visit in July…
