New Delhi: Chief minister Rekha Gupta Monday launched Dust Portal 2.0 and asked all construction and demolition projects with a plot area of 500 square metres or more to carry out self-assessments.Through GIS mapping, 360-degree cameras and AI-enabled sensors that will generate automatic pollution alerts, the portal will enable real-time, site-specific action against dust-control and…
New Delhi: At least five people were injured, one of whom is critical, after they were allegedly hit by a speeding car amid a scuffle inside a residential society in east Delhi’s Mayur Vihar Phase III Sunday night.Four persons, including a 12-year-old boy, were injured, police said. Sanjay (40), a resident who was passing by…
New Delhi: The number of murders, often considered the most reliable baseline for measuring the crime situation in a city, witnessed a rise in the first five months of 2026 compared with last year, sounding alarm bells for police. With 238 reported cases between Jan and May, Delhi registered a 23.3% increase in homicides against…
New Delhi: Barely a year after rolling out the fourth year of its undergraduate programme, Delhi University is set to significantly recalibrate the implementation of its National Education Policy (NEP)-mandated four-year degree, moving towards offering the additional year through select cluster colleges after low student uptake made the existing model difficult to sustain.A recommendation by…
New Delhi: “My school taught me the alphabet, while poverty gave me the light of wisdom. Together, they made me a servant of literature,” Tamil poet R Vairamuthu said Monday as he received the 60th Jnanpith Award for 2025, India’s highest literary honour.Speaking in Tamil, with the essence of his address subsequently presented in Hindi,…
New Delhi: Rescue teams continued their search Monday as families waited anxiously on the bank more than 24 hours after four class 10 students were swept away while bathing in the Yamuna near Hiranki Road in outer north Delhi.The four boys — Rahul, Anshu, Saurabh and Amandeep — were close friends who had gone together…
New Delhi: Al-Falah University group chairman Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui, in custody in two money laundering cases, Monday urged Delhi High Court to release him on interim bail.Siddiqui, who is seeking the relief on account of his wife’s cancer treatment, told a bench of Justice Saurabh Banerjee that he is ready to wear a GPS tracker…
New Delhi: A 17-year-old boy was allegedly murdered by her girlfriend’s brother and his friends in southeast Delhi’s Molarband on Sunday evening. The brother, also a minor, was allegedly opposed to the relationship. Police have apprehended three of the accused, including the brother.Around 8pm, police were informed about the incident that took place outside a…
New Delhi: Why are authorities shifting slum dwellers from near the Prime Minister’s residence to Savda Ghera, 45 kms away, when over 24,000 homes constructed to rehabilitate such evictees lie unused nearby? Delhi High Court Monday demanded answers from the Central and state govts on the condition of 24,284 units built in 2024, that are…
New Delhi: Monday’s conviction of former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and four others for the murder of IB officer Ankit Sharma marks the first conviction for murder in the 2020 northeast Delhi riots cases even as dozens of other murder prosecutions continue to make their way through the courts.The riots broke out in Feb 2020….
