It’s 1.15pm on Wednesday at the Mundka toll plaza in Delhi on the newly opened greenfield Urban Extension Road-II. To the surprise of many drivers, the boom barriers across 16 toll lanes are raised. Vehicles slow down, expecting the barriers to fall for FASTag-based toll deduction. Instead, toll attendants wave them through without stopping. Within…
The onus of disproving suspicions about the legitimacy of late businessman Sunjay Kapur’s purported will lies on his wife Priya Kapur, Delhi high court said Thursday. NEW DELHI: The onus of disproving suspicions about the legitimacy of late businessman Sunjay Kapur’s purported will lies on his wife Priya Kapur, Delhi high court said Thursday, directing…
NEW DELHI: Come July, almost all transfers at Delhi airport — between Termin-als 1 and 3; and Terminals 1 and 2 — will happen via the airside, in a huge relief to connecting passengers. Only the adjacent T2 and T3 will continue seeing passengers shuttling between them fr-om the cityside with a relatively short walk.Airside…
TNNNew Delhi: Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on Thursday continued its demolition drive in Uttam Nagar, targeting illegal structures allegedly linked to individuals accused in a fatal Holi clash on March 4.Sources said the affected parties had approached the Delhi High Court on April 13 against demolition action carried out by the civic body the…
New Delhi: Of the 2,524 electric poles identified for installing mist sprayers across the capital, work has begun at several locations, with multiple agencies together covering 1,160 poles so far, according to Delhi govt data.Public Works Department (PWD) has installed mist sprayers on 305 poles at identified pollution hotspots and plans to extend the system…
New Delhi: Making a dent in the Gogi-Dinesh Karala network, Delhi Police has recently raided multiple locations across three states and arrested five of its shooters, arms suppliers and financiers from northwest Delhi’s Rohini and Hapur in Uttar Pradesh.“A 9 mm Glock, an Italian Beretta and a Turkish zoraki procured in order to be used…
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Thursday set aside a magistrate’s order taking cognisance of defamation charges against BJP MLA Karnail Singh in a complaint filed by former AAP MLA Satyendra Jain, holding that the trial court failed to examine the applicability of statutory exceptions at the pre-summoning stage.Special Judge Jitendra Singh of the Rouse…
New Delhi: An intense spell of rain accompanied by a thunderstorm and a dust storm hit parts of Delhi-NCR on Thursday, bringing relief from intense heat. Some areas, including east Delhi, Noida and Ghaziabad, were also lashed by a hailstorm.When the thunderstorm hit the region around noon, it instantly caused temperatures to crash. At Safdarjung,…
File Pic of deceased Rajkumar – The spot on Dabri flyover from where Rajkumar, 25-year-old delivery executive fell and died in a hit-and-run accident by a red swift car, in southwest Delhi early Thursday morning. Photo: Piyal Bhattacharjee (with Khushi’s story) – Police personnel inspect the killer car which hits Rajkumar, 25-year-old delivery executive who…
New Delhi: Two foreign nationals were arrested in south Delhi’s Maidan Garhi on Sunday night for allegedly trafficking narcotics, with police seizing a commercial quantity of cocaine along with other psychotropic substances.Police said the arrests were made after specific intelligence was received on April 27 about two men arriving in the area to supply drugs….
