New Delhi: A 16-year-old boy accused of murdering a man during a robbery in southwest Delhi’s Jaffarpur Kalan will be tried as an adult, following an order by the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB). Police alleged that the juvenile, along with two associates, killed the man last year and later set his body on fire to…
New Delhi: A deputy manager of a cooperative bank has been arrested for allegedly facilitating the opening of a bank account that was later used by cyber fraudsters to route nearly Rs 67.9 crore of cheated funds, police have said.Pabitra Kumar Biswal, a resident of Mayur Vihar in east Delhi, was arrested following an investigation…
New Delhi: Two squalls with wind speeds of up to 120kmph battered Delhi on Tuesday night, uprooting trees and snapping branches across the city and triggering at least 42 calls to Delhi Traffic Police, nearly 40 to the PWD control room and eight to NDMC.Even on Wednesday morning, fallen trees and hanging branches continued to…
New Delhi: For more than two weeks, a 77-year-old man’s worsening breathlessness was blamed on advanced lung disease. But when treatment failed and his oxygen levels plunged to 65%, doctors discovered an unexpected cause: a pea stuck deep inside his airway.The elderly patient, a known case of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) for the past…
New Delhi: BJP functionaries, including party national president Nitin Nabin, Union minister J P Nadda and Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta, offered prayers at temples to mark Narendra Modi’s record as the longest-serving elected Prime Minister of India.Modi on Wednesday completed an unbroken tenure of 4,399 days in office, surpassing the record of first Prime…
New Delhi: A court has convicted a man of attempting to rape a differently abled woman, relying on the testimony of her mother and a psychiatric assessment that said the survivor had a social age of “one year and two months” and suffered from “profound social intellectual impairment”.Social age is a measure of a person’s…
New Delhi: Delhi Police has filed a chargesheet in connection with the security breach at the Delhi Assembly that was reported on April 6.The accused, identified as Sarabjit Singh (37), a resident of Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh, was arrested in the case. According to the chargesheet, the incident took place around 2.10 pm when a…
NEW DELHI: The death toll in the Malviya Nagar bed and breakfast fire tragedy rose to 23 on Wednesday night after a Bangladeshi national succumbed to injuries while undergoing treatment at a hospital.The fire broke out at the Flourish Inn hotel in south Delhi’s Malviya Nagar area on June 3, killing 21 people and injuring…
NEW DELHI: The CBI on Wednesday arrested a Delhi Police Crime Branch inspector and a middleman for allegedly demanding a bribe of Rs 3 crore from a Puducherry-based businessman in exchange for influencing an ongoing probe into a fake drug manufacturing case, according to news agency PTI.The arrested accused have been identified as Crime Branch…
NEW DELHI: At a time when obesity is rising steadily across India, Delhi stands out for an unexpected reason. The latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS-6) shows the share of men aged 15-49 who are overweight or obese has declined in the national capital, even as obesity among women and diabetes indicators among both sexes…
