NEW DELHI: Saurabh Bhardwaj, Aam Aadmi Party’s Delhi unit chief, has been booked by the Delhi Police for allegedly disclosing the identity of a three-year-old girl who was allegedly sexually assaulted at a private school in west Delhi, an officer said on Tuesday.The case was registered at Janakpuri Police Station under Section 72 (disclosure of…
NEW DELHI: The National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) before the Delhi high court, raising concerns over the Central Board of Secondary Education’s (CBSE) newly introduced On-Screen Marking (OSM) system for Class XII board examinations. The student body has sought the reopening of the verification process, manual evaluation…
NEW DELHI: Several residents were feared trapped after a single-storey house collapsed following an LPG cylinder blast in north Delhi’s Mukundpur area on Tuesday morning, a Delhi Fire Service official said.The incident occurred at Gali No. 1, Part-2, Ishu Vihar, near the cremation ground, the official said.A distress call reporting the blast was received at…
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has conducted searches against the Vedanta Group as part of an investigation under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), officials said on Tuesday.Sources said the action against the mining conglomerate, promoted by billionaire industrialist Anil Agarwal, was initiated on Monday.According to officials, the searches were carried out after the…
Step-by-step guide to how rescue operations work NEW DELHI: When disaster strikes, be it a building collapse or an earthquake, the enormous pile of concrete and steel is the first hurdle between life and death. For rescue teams, extricating victims from the mounds of debris is a race against time.At a rescue site, operations shift…
NEW DELHI: An earthquake of magnitude 4.6 on the Richter scale struck the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday morning, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS).The tremor occurred at 7:43:17 am IST at a depth of 10 kilometres, the NCS said.According to the agency, the earthquake was recorder at a latitude of 14.027 N,…
AbhayNew Delhi: Police on Monday arrested 70-year-old Karamveer, the owner of the multi-storey commercial building in south Delhi’s Saidulajab that collapsed on Saturday evening, killing six people.He was nabbed from his Vasant Kunj residence. Karamveer is a rental property businessman in the area and has multiple holdings in Saidulajab and other areas of Delhi, police…
– 01-06-2026, Rescue operations underway after a multi-storey building collapsed on Saturday evening near the Saket Metro station, in New Delhi. Photo: Anushka Kogta – 01-06-2026, Rescue operations underway after a multi-storey building collapsed on Saturday evening near the Saket Metro station, in New Delhi. Photo: Anushka Kogta – 01-06-2026, Rescue operations underway after a…
Representative image created using AI NEW DELHI: A court has convicted a man and his mother in a dowry death case after a decade, finding that the woman was subjected to sustained dowry-related harassment, including physical abuse and demands for an additional Rs 50,000, until days before she had killed herself within seven years of…
New Delhi: The challenges before the Saidulajab rescue personnel on Saturday were complex. Before them were many tonnes of debris piled high in a small area, which could only be accessed by narrow roads. Another problem was a destabilised building next to the one that had collapsed.Given the circumstances, the rescuers chose to go for…
