New Delhi: The cloth green meshes or green nets installed along the construction sites are a common sight in Delhi to deal with dust pollution. However, a latest assessment done by Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has found them ineffective as dust particles can easily pass through the material, prompting it to fix the minimum…
New Delhi: An IAS officer who recently attempted self-enumeration for Census 2027 was unable to pinpoint the exact location of his house on the portal, https://se.census.gov.in, because the location pin drifted each time he tried to place it accurately, despite fully zooming in on his location in North Delhi.“I eventually had to select a tentative…
New Delhi: A 70-year-old Alzheimer’s patient was allegedly cheated of nearly Rs 2.6 lakh by a domestic help-cum-driver who had been employed with the family for over 15 years. The accused has been arrested.The victim, a resident of central Delhi, is a retired official from the Union agriculture ministry. The alleged fraud came to light…
New Delhi: Two women were allegedly assaulted by a group of men in southeast Delhi’s Nehru Place on Sunday morning. Police have detained two of the suspects and at least two more are at large.One of the women, who is from Assam, later released a video, alleging that police had initially refused to register an…
Arrest of former Delhi cop New Delhi: Six arrests have been made in three separate cases of cyber fraud reported from different parts of the city.In the first case, police busted a cyber fraud racket operating through a fake mobile trading application and arrested three people, including a computer science engineer. A fake call centre…
New Delhi: A Delhi court has pulled up police after the force said there was no material on record to support allegations that Tarun Butolia’s family was threatened earlier this month, despite the police previously informing Delhi High Court that it had collected “relevant material including video footage.”Twenty people, including two juveniles, have been named…
New Delhi: A common wrist injury, left untreated and neglected for years, nearly resulted in the permanent loss of movement for a young adult in Delhi, until surgeons intervened with a rare reconstructive procedure, they said, is performed in fewer than 100 cases worldwide.The patient had suffered a fracture of the scaphoid, a small but…
New Delhi: The capital has witnessed a number of stabbing incidents in the past one year, and in most cases, a button knife ordered online has been the weapon of choice. But how easy is it to actually get one? On the digital marketplace, procuring this knife is just a click and Rs 87 away,…
New Delhi: Upholding an order asking a daughter-in-law and her son to vacate a property owned by her in-laws, Delhi High Court has stressed that “right of residence in a shared household” under the Domestic Violence (DV) Act doesn’t mean ownership of the premises.“The right of residence is a protective right, intended to secure shelter,…
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday opposed actress Jacqueline Fernandez’s plea seeking approver status in the Rs 200-crore money laundering case linked to alleged conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar, arguing that she had remained in “regular and sustained contact” with him, despite being aware of his criminal antecedents.Appearing before special judge Prashant Sharma in the…
