Delhi remained under the grip of heavy monsoon showers on Thursday morning as overnight rain lashed the city. NEW DELHI: Heavy rain since Wednesday night has brought large parts of Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) to a standstill, triggering widespread waterlogging, traffic congestion and tree falls across several areas on Thursday morning.The India…
Delhi resident found an old school certificate while searching for electoral documents. NEW DELHI: Across Delhi, steel almirahs are being opened, dusty trunks dragged out and cardboard boxes emptied as families search for birth certificates, school records and electoral slips amid the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.For 46-year-old Sharad Kumar Sharma,…
According to police, a PCR call was received at around 4.28 pm regarding the collapse of a building in G-4 Pocket, Sector 16, Rohini. NEW DELHI: Two more people died on Thursday, a day after two newly constructed buildings collapsed in Sector 16 of Rohini, taking the death toll in the incident to three.The deceased…
New Delhi: More than two weeks after a 30-year-old cab driver died in what appeared to be a road accident in south west Delhi, police apprehended two men after the victim’s family alleged that he was chased, abducted and assaulted before his death.On June 26, Mohammad Ujaib died after his taxi crashed into a concrete…
New Delhi: A cab driver allegedly threatened and attempted to assault a man with a stick following a minor collision inside Dwarka Expressway tunnel in southwest Delhi, with a video of the incident now going viral on social media. Police said efforts are under way to identify and trace the cab driver, who fled the…
20-year-old Indian sailor missing off Ukraine coast. NEW DELHI: At 9 am on July 5, while mourning the death of a relative in Haryana’s Jui village, Mandeep Duddi received an email, followed by a phone call, informing him that his 20-year-old son, Deepak, a seaman, went missing from a Portuguese-flagged vessel off the coast of…
Still from Macbeth: What’s Done Is Done Centred on the themes of regicide, betrayal and tyranny, Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s darkest tragedies. In contrast, Rajat Kapoor’s satirical adaptation adds a layer of slapstick comedy to the sombre classic. While in the original, Shakespeare uses the opening scene to set the eerie tone of the…
The ongoing rainfall is expected to provide relief from the humid weather that residents have been experiencing in recent days. NEW DELHI: Rain lashed parts of Delhi in the early hours of Thursday, extending the monsoon spell in the national capital and bringing relief from the recent humid conditions.The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued…
New Delhi: Delhi has registered an improvement in the newborn survival rate over the past decade, with the neonatal mortality rate falling to 14.1 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2024 from 15.8 in 2015. However, the maternal mortality ratio has increased to 44 deaths per one lakh live births from 37 in 2015, according…
New Delhi: Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has launched the online application process for developers seeking approvals for proposals under its revised Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Policy, an initiative aimed at promoting high-density, mixed-use development around public transport corridors in the city.Developers can submit applications through DDA’s online building permit system for approval of TOD projects by…
