New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University’s admission process is facing a legal challenge in Delhi High Court because of its use of deprivation points.Students aspiring to study in JNU have to appear for the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) for undergraduate and postgraduate courses. The deprivation scores are added to the CUET score.So, what is the…
New Delhi: Delhi Police has written to assembly speaker Vijender Gupta, informing him about the detention of Kondli MLA Kuldeep Singh and detailing the circumstances that led to the preventive action. Singh’s mobilisation of sanitation workers in connection with a recent murder case could escalate tensions in the area, disrupt public order and potentially lead…
New Delhi: Everything can’t be “thrust upon the courts”, Delhi High Court said Wednesday as it wrapped up hearing on a PIL that raised concern over the possible disenfranchisement of the homeless because of the Election Commission’s house-to-house enumeration methodology in the SIR.“Don’t ask us to adjudicate these issues. It is for them to evolve…
New Delhi: Election Commission of India has again revised the schedule for Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Delhi. The draft electoral roll will now be published on Aug 31, a week after the earlier schedule of Aug 24. After the third extension of the SIR schedule in the city, the final…
New Delhi: Behind the bustling facade of south Delhi, the lanes of Kalkaji recently became the quiet setting for two shattering tragedies. Within days of each other, two elderly men living alone passed away in absolute isolation. Their final hours were marked by stark solitude, and in one of the cases, the death went unnoticed…
New Delhi: A woman was held hostage at knifepoint, tied up and robbed of Rs 75 lakh at her residence in northwest Delhi’s Ashok Vihar Wednesday.According to police, a PCR call was received about the robbery from E-Block, Phase-I, at Ashok Vihar police station.Cops rushed to the spot and found that four people had allegedly…
New Delhi: Satyender Jain’s key defence in Rouse Avenue court Wednesday was that he was in jail when Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) alleges he gave his nod to “irregularities” in the tendering process of Delhi Jal Board (DJB).While ACB has claimed the former AAP minister was a party to tweaking of tender rules that allowed its…
New Delhi: With Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) not seeking police custody of Delhi’s former water minister Satyendar Jain and four other accused, a city court Wednesday sent the five to 14-day judicial custody in Delhi Jal Board (DJB) sewage treatment plant (STP) tender case, while granting two-day police custody of DJB ex-consultant Ankit Srivastava.The defence…
New Delhi: Only electric N1 light goods vehicles (LGVs) will be allowed to be registered in Delhi from Jan 1, 2027, and from July 1, 2027, in the high-vehicle-density districts of Gurgaon, Faridabad, Sonipat, Ghaziabad and Gautam Budh Nagar, Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) said Wednesday. N1 refers to a motor vehicle used for…
New Delhi: After Bhagini Nivedita College and Aditi Mahavidyalaya, three more off-campus Delhi University colleges — Shyam Lal College, Rajdhani College and Zakir Husain Delhi College (Evening) — have opened merit-based admissions using Class XII scores to fill vacant undergraduate seats. The move comes as colleges continue to struggle to fill seats left vacant by…
