New Delhi: With Nov and Dec likely to be lost to outdoor sports because of air pollution, Delhi-NCR schools are being forced to rethink their sports calendars.Several schools are looking at moving annual sports days, athletics meets and inter-school competitions to Sept-Oct, while others may shift postponed events to Jan and Feb next year.The challenge…
New Delhi: State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (Sotto) was made operational at GB Pant Hospital Thursday as chief minister Rekha Gupta launched an organ donation platform to encourage more people to register as donors.Gupta launched the campaign under Seva Sankalp Abhiyan to mark Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 76th birthday and herself pledged to donate…
New Delhi: A 16-year-old girl was raped and murdered, allegedly by a group of four youths, in Outer Delhi’s Swaroop Nagar and her body dumped in an open field. Three minors and a 19-year-old man have been apprehended in connection with the case.Police said three of the suspects allegedly raped the girl. The fourth suspect…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court has initiated contempt of court proceedings against a superintendent at Tihar jail, taking a dim view of the “flimsy and untenable excuses” he made while delaying the release of a convict on parole despite the court’s directions.Justice Purushaindra K Kaurav said the jail administration made a “mockery” of the legal…
New Delhi: Former Puducherry lieutenant governor and retired IPS officer Kiran Bedi Thursday moved Delhi High Court seeking to be made a party in a matter relating to the collapse of a building in Satya Niketan that left seven people, including five students, dead.Additional Solicitor General Chetan Sharma, appearing for Centre, Delhi govt and Municipal…
New Delhi: A 31-year-old HR professional, reported missing by his family after he went to Gurgaon to meet a former colleague, was allegedly murdered, police have said.Delhi Police has arrested the former colleague, Anya Vats, and her partner Sanyam Sachdeva in connection with the alleged murder of Yuvraj Singh Manchanda. Police suspect a financial dispute…
New Delhi: River Yamuna appears to have received some of the monsoon cleansing that was due in early July. In Aug, the river showed a substantial reduction in sewage contamination at some downstream stretches compared to July as well as the same time last year.Despite the improvement, though, organic pollution is still high, and a…
New Delhi: By the end of Oct, the city is expected to get additional parking space for about 6,400 vehicles.As part of measures to control air pollution ahead of the winter season, MCD, in accordance with CAQM directions, has identified 81 new sites for developing surface parking lots.Currently, the civic body has 399 surface parking…
New Delhi: A BCom graduate, a former tuition centre operator, a mobile shop worker and three others allegedly joined hands to execute a gunpoint robbery involving Rs 1.5 crore in cash in central Delhi. Police have arrested five of them.The robbery took place on Sept 7 when a payment collector, accompanied by a colleague, was…
New Delhi: Warning it may put counting and results on hold, Delhi High Court Thursday lashed out at “criminal and reckless conduct” of students during campaigning for the Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) elections. It gave a day’s time to DU and police to demonstrate their seriousness in punishing those behind violence and hooliganism.Campaigning for…
