New Delhi: Delays in completion of civic projects are often attributed to financial constraints, pending approvals or procedural bottlenecks. While such explanations are all too familiar, what’s far more difficult to justify is not opening projects, which have already been completed, to the public.Across civic bodies in Delhi, several high-profile public facilities have remained non-operational…
New Delhi: Delhi govt has ordered a CAG audit of the three private power discoms over the accumulation of Rs 38,500-crore regulatory assets that are to be recovered from consumers. If undertaken, it will be the first CAG audit of the discoms since the privatisation of electricity distribution in Delhi in 2002.Comptroller and Auditor General…
New Delhi: Behind polite “namastes” and a high rent of Rs 15,000 — more than double what other tenants pay a month — a suspected synthetic drug lab used to operate out of a flat in a residential building in north Delhi’s Swaroop Nagar.Nearly three weeks after a Nigerian woman plunged to her death from…
New Delhi: A court Thursday dismissed CBI’s plea for further police custody of IPS officer Deepak Gehlawat in the Rs 3-crore bribery case linked to the alleged Rs 5,000-crore fake medicine manufacturing racket. The agency is “totally silent with regard to the steps taken in investigation” to ascertain the identity of the public servant whom…
New Delhi: Posing as an eligible bride in search of a husband and later going “missing”, 40-year-old Lalita allegedly got unsuspecting men into fake marriages before vanishing with their money. Police have arrested three people, including Lalita, her husband and another accomplice, Deepu.According to the police, the scam came to light after a missing-person report…
New Delhi: Police have arrested a Dwarka house help for allegedly making false allegations of rape against a man who had booked her through an app for house cleaning on June 30.At 1.22 pm on June 30, police got a PCR call. The woman who dialled 112 told the cops that she was assigned a…
New Delhi: Outside Shaheen Bagh’s Chand Masjid, the questions are no longer about protest sites or road blockades, but about booth-level officers (BLOs), enumeration forms and whether elderly parents have the documents they may need.Volunteers say the mosque will set up neighbourhood camps, this time not to mobilise a protest, but to help residents complete…
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Thursday reserved its judgment in the sexual harassment case lodged by six women wrestlers against former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and former BJP Lok Sabha MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, bringing the trial that began two years ago to its final stage.Additional chief judicial magistrate Ashwini Panwar…
Delhi tops in foreign tourist arrivals, but trails in stays (In pic: Red Fort) NEW DELHI: Delhi accounted for 32.2 lakh foreign tourist arrivals in 2024, which was 38.9% of the country’s top international entries, according to the Delhi Economic Survey of 2025–26.While it leads other cities by a massive margin on this count, Delhi…
Accused Apurv Singh (L), Sarthak Mattoo (R) NEW DELHI: The family of 34-year-old Sarthak Mattoo, who was killed in a hit-and-run near the Rajokri flyover in southwest Delhi last week, has accused Delhi Police of failing to act swiftly and allowing the accused to “slip away”, even as police denied any delay in the investigation…
