New Delhi: The Centre told Delhi High Court Friday that social media posts and reports of over 75 judges and ministers travelling to London to participate in a badminton event are “completely false and misleading”.Its response came on a plea filed by the Badminton Association of India (BAI) seeking action against social media posts and…
New Delhi: Seventeen years after a minor was allegedly kidnapped and raped by a tailor employed at her mother’s boutique, police have arrested the accused from Bijnor in UP, after he evaded arrest since 2009. The accused, Irshad Ahmed, 42, fled the country and moved to Kuwait in 2011, where he remarried. He was held…
New Delhi: A 51-year-old man with a criminal record was shot at and critically injured by unidentified assailants in the Tughlaq Road area Thursday night, police said. Officers suspect personal enmity. The incident was reported around 9.45 pm; the victim, Mohammad Rafiq of Sunder Nursery’s JJ area, was taken to hospital. A case under BNS…
NEW DELHI: A fire broke out at a residential house in Gali No. 7 of Bihari Colony in Delhi’s Shahdara area on Saturday, prompting a swift response from the Delhi Fire Services (DFS).According to fire officials, a total of six fire tenders were rushed to the spot after information about the blaze was received. Firefighters…
New Delhi: For nearly 25 years, Meena used to leave her home early morning, commute to East of Kailash in southeast Delhi and work in other people’s homes till evening.Those who knew the 45-year-old house help said they were struggling to understand the circumstances that led to her murder, allegedly by Dr Manish Gupta at…
New Delhi: One of Delhi’s largest road bridge infrastructure projects, Barapullah Phase III, may miss its eighth deadline because a crucial 40-metre bridge deck on the Sarai Kale Khan-Mayur Vihar carriageway is yet to be cast.Eleven days before its June 30 deadline, TOI found at the construction site Friday that while the majority of the…
New Delhi: Delhi’s anti-corruption branch (ACB) has made its first arrest in connection with the alleged Rs 650-crore irregularities in the procurement of medicines and medical equipment.Dr Vinod Ranga, former head of office of Central Procurement Agency (CPA) under Directorate General of Health Services, was arrested on charges of corruption linked to the procurement of…
New Delhi: The city saw another hot and humid day, with the heat index, or “feels-like” temperature, touching 42.5 degrees Celsius on Friday at 2.30 pm. The air temperature is likely to remain between 37 and 39 degrees Celsius over the next few days, according to India Meteorological Department (IMD).On Friday, city’s base station Safdarjung…
New Delhi: Delhi forest department has now imposed a fine of Rs 15.3 lakh on DCM Limited for illegal felling of three trees and victimisation of 67 trees at Central Square Complex on Manohar Lal Khurana Marg in 2024. DCM Limited has also been asked to plant 50 saplings of native species as compensatory plantation.The…
New Delhi: Delhi Police, in the fifth edition of Operation CyHawk, has arrested 916 people and taken legal action against 4,290 people.The 48-hour nationwide operation ran from 8 am on June 16 and to 8 am on June 18. All 15 district police units, along with the intelligence fusion and strategic operations (IFSO) unit and…
