New Delhi: Chief minister Rekha Gupta chaired cabinet on Tuesday approved ‘Delhi Building and Construction Workers Health Scheme’ for the health protection of registered building and construction workers and their families in Delhi, a move that can benefit around 2.7 lakh registered construction workers besides their families, covering nearly 10 lakh people.Under the scheme a…
New Delhi: Twelve people were rescued after a major fire broke out in a slum cluster in central Delhi’s Takia Kale Khan late Monday night. The blaze engulfed around 30 huts.Delhi Fire Service (DFS) got a call regarding the fire at 11.22 pm from Balmiki Basti in Takia Kale Khan, following which 24 fire tenders…
New Delhi: In a first, a judge from India has been honoured by an influential international body on intellectual property. Justice Prathiba M. Singh of Delhi High Court has been honoured for her exceptional contribution to intellectual property jurisprudence in India and inducted by IAM – a leading IP publication into its IP Hall of…
NEW DELHI: The breakthrough came from a father’s fractured memory: a white car, a yellow commercial plate, vanishing into the night with his young daughter. It was a slender thread, but enough for the investigators to launch a manhunt across city limits.According to police, the suspect, Basu Kumar Singh, a driver linked to three major…
New Delhi: It was a chase that the 40-year-old man would never forget. “I was sleeping when I was jolted awake with my daughter yelling ‘Papa…’ I saw her being pulled in the car and ran to save her. I picked up a stick and chased but the car sped away,” the girl’s father told…
New Delhi: The abduction and rape-murder of an 11-year-old homeless girl in Mehrauli by a cabbie has once again brought into focus the vulnerability of children living on the streets, particularly underneath or near flyovers. For many such children, survival itself is a daily struggle. With families often living on pavements or at temporary settlements,…
New Delhi: On average, the first three months of 2025 and 2026 saw Delhi recording more than 250 Pocso Act cases every month.Data revealed that last year, till March 31, police registered 843 FIRs under the Act, solving 688 cases and making 987 arrests. This year, in the corresponding period, 798 Pocso cases have been…
New Delhi: The latest case has rekindled grim memories of the infamous 2014 rape case involving the driver of an app-based cab service, triggering concerns over regulatory overhauls which were promised after that crime.On the night of Dec 5, 2014, a 25-year-old finance executive hired a cab to return home to north Delhi. The driver…
New Delhi: The Public Works Department (PWD) has decided to conduct structural audits of 44 flyovers that are more than 15 years old. Some of these have been in use for nearly three decades.The city today has 102 flyovers, many of which were built during the infrastructure push of the early 2000s. PWD has earmarked…
New Delhi: In a long-awaited decision that is likely to benefit lakhs of slum-dwellers, chief minister Rekha Gupta Tuesday announced that Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) has extended the cutoff date of the slum rehabilitation scheme from Jan 1, 2015 to Jan 1, 2025. In other words, residents of all eligible slum clusters established…
