Cops probe owner for int’l human trafficking NEW DELHI: Delhi Police is now investigating Lovkesh Bajaj, whose B&B went up in flames and led to 21 deaths in Hauz Rani, for his suspected involvement in an international human trafficking racket. He likely used medical tourism as a front to smuggle foreign nationals into India illegally,…
New Delhi: Two firefighters suffered injuries while battling a blaze that broke out in a battery room at a Tata Communications office building in South Delhi’s Greater Kailash-I early Friday morning.Delhi Fire Services received a call regarding the fire at 2.47 am, and 11 fire tenders were deployed. During the firefighting efforts, two personnel sustained…
NEW DELHI: Investigators probing the murder of Debosmita Paul, an assistant professor at a Delhi University college, are trying to trace two persons seen in her housing complex with their faces covered.The duo, a man and a woman, were seen walking one behind the other and exiting the premises in east Delhi’s Vasundhara Enclave separately,…
New Delhi: Delhi Police’s Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations unit has registered an FIR following a complaint from the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) over a series of coordinated cyberattacks targeting its Post-Result Services Portal.The case has been registered under sections of the Information Technology Act, and an investigation was initiated, police said.CBSE said…
New Delhi: Just hours before the devastating Hauz Rani fire, Shagun Sharma, a Central Accident and Trauma Services (CATS) ambulance driver, began what he thought would be a routine shift.Originally from Meerut, the former e-commerce delivery rider has spent the last three years driving ambulances across the capital. Nothing, however, prepared him for what he…
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Friday detained the manager and the chef of the B&B in Hauz Rani where 21 people lost their lives in a devastating fire.Police sources said the two were being questioned about what preceded the blaze on Wednesday, the management of the premises, the suspected cause of the fire, and structural…
New Delhi: About an hour after the fire tore through the Hauz Rani bed and breakfast on June 3, it’s owner, Lovkesh Bajaj, applied for the renewal of the licence of a ground floor establishment.The licence, according to MCD, had expired on March 31. MCD officials said on Friday that the licence had been rejected.MCD…
Vibha SharmaNew Delhi: Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has issued an order deregulating health trade licences for 67 of the 97 categories that earlier required such permissions, amid an ongoing blame game over the Hauz Rani bed and breakfast fire.Instead, the licence or registration document issued by Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)…
MCD took demolition action against 82 properties and sealed 43 properties since June 1Vibha SharmaNew Delhi: Municipal Corporation of Delhi has claimed that it has demolished 82 properties and sealed 43 properties since June 1, following a building collapse and a fire in Delhi.On Wednesday, 21 people lost their lives in a fire in a…
New Delhi: A labourer was killed and two others injured after a boundary wall and an adjoining storage room collapsed during sewer and stormwater drain construction at Lodhi Crematorium in southeast Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin area early Friday, police said.The incident occurred around 1.08 am while labourers were carrying out excavation and pipe-laying work. “The collapse…
